Research at the Department of English

Here, you can find an overview of all research projects and recent publications from all reserachers at the English Department. Further information on research can be found on individual pages of staff members.

Research Projects

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MEG-SKoRe (A I)

Linguistic and cognitive resources of multilingualism in English acquisition in primary school

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BASICS (A IV)

Borrowing of Argument Structure in Contact Situations

RUEG P5 (A I)

Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations: A Comparative Approach. Teilprojekt P5: Clause Structure in Heritage German

Mannheim Papers in Multilingualism, Acquisition, and Change (AIV)

The online-journal Mannheim Papers in Multilingualism, Acquisition, and Change publishes working papers from our research projects as well as excellent theses from our students

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Quantified Self (A III)

Probing the Limits of the Quantified Self

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Language Mixing in Medieval England (A IV)

Historical documents as a touchstone for modern code-switching models

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LinguaPix (A I)

A crowdsourcing mega-study developing a database of picture naming norms

MABEL (AII)

Mannheimer Beiträge zur Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft

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Multilingual Classroom (A I)

Teacher training: teaching and learning in a multilingual classroom.

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MA-eye-LAB (A I)

Visit the pages of our psycholinguistic research lab

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MAZEM (A I)

Mannheim Center for Empirical Multilingualism Research

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Linguistic Creativity (A I)

Exploration of Linguistic Creativity in Multilingual Speakers

Hopp, H. and Thoma, D. (2021). Effects of plurilingual teaching on grammatical development in early foreign-language learning. The Modern Language Journal : MLJ, 1-20.
Elter, W. (2020). The rise of the to-dative: a language-contact approach to a phenomenon of structural language change. Mannheim Papers in Multilingualism, Acquisition and Change, 1, 1-71.
Hopp, H. and Thoma, D. (2020). Foreign language development during temporary school closures in the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Education, 5, 1-4.
Kaltenbach, L. (2020). The recipient passive in the history of English. Mannheim Papers in Multilingualism, Acquisition and Change, 1, 73-112.
Percillier, M. (2020). A variationist approach to the spread of emergent features in Middle English. Recherches Anglaises et Nord-Américaines : RANAM, 53, 23-36.
Trips, C. (2020). Impersonal and reflexive uses of Middle English psych verbs under contact influence with Old French. Linguistics vanguard, 6, Article 20190016.
Gonnermann, A. (2019). The concept of post-pessimism in 21st Century dystopian fiction. The Comparatist, 43, 26-40.
Hopp, H., Jakisch, J., Sturm, S., Becker, C. and Thoma, D. (2019). Integrating multilingualism into the early foreign language classroom: Empirical and teaching perspectives. International Multilingual Research Journal, 31, 1-17.
Hopp, H., Vogelbacher, M., Kieseier, T. and Thoma, D. (2019). Bilingual advantages in early foreign language learning: Effects of the minority and the majority language. Learning and Instruction, 61, 99-110.
Krautz, A. E. and Čavar, F. (2019). 'Moral foreign language effect – claims we have never made' (response to commentary by Białek and Fugelsang, in press). Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 40, 687-690.
Kreyßig, N. and Krautz, A. E. (2019). Lying and perception of lies by bilingual speakers. Applied Psycholinguistics, 40, 1313-1329.
Mijatović, M. and Tytus, A. E. (2019). The bi-personal bilingual: a study of the perceived feeling of a changed self. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 22, 224-236.
Reichardt, U. (2019). An interview with Jules Chametzky. Amerikastudien : AmST = American Studies, 64, 435-454.
Thoma, D. and Baum, A. (2019). Reduced language processing automaticity induces weaker emotions in bilinguals regardless of learning context. Emotion, 19, 1023-1034.
Trips, C. and Stein, A. (2019). Contact-induced changes in the argument structure of Middle English verbs on the model of Old French. Journal of Language Contact, 12, 232-267.
Tytus, A. (2019). Active and dormant languages in the multilingual mental lexicon. International Journal of Multilingualism, 16, 357-374.
Benz, S. (2018). “Sing[ing] of the middle way:" Michael McClure’s venture for a new mode of thought between natural science and mysticism. Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies : COPAS, 19, 1-24.
Benz, S. (2018). The new materialist ethics of Michael McClure. Antennae : The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, 46, 5-16.
Lusin, C. (2018). A one way ticket to Paradise? Adapting the Bible in Venedikt Erofeev’s Moskva Petushki (1973), Stephen Mulrine’s Moscow Stations (1993), and A.L. Kennedy’s Paradise (2004). Komparatistik online, 2018, 8-25.
Motyl, K. and Arghavan, M. (2018). Writing against neocolonial necropolitics: literary responses by Iraqi/Arab writers to the US ‘War on Terror’. European Journal of English studies : EJES, 22, 128-141.
Percillier, M. (2018). The non-standard in writing: A look at West African and Southeast Asian literature. E-REA : Revue Électronique d’Études sur le Monde Anglophone, 15, No. 6312.
Reichardt, U. (2018). Self-observation in the digital age: The quantified self, neoliberalism, and the paradoxes of contemporary individualism. Amerikastudien : AmST = American Studies, 63, 99-117.
Thoma, D. and Tytus, A. E. (2018). How cross-linguistic differences in the grammaticalization of future time reference influence intertemporal choices. Cognitive Science, 42, 974-1000.
Tytus, A. (2018). Rising to the bilingual challenge: self-reported experiences of managing life with two languages. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 21, 207-221.
Čavar, F. and Tytus, A. E. (2018). Moral judgement and foreign language effect: when the foreign language becomes the second language. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 39, 17-28.
Davydova, J., Tytus, A. E. and Schleef, E. (2017). Acquisition of sociolinguistic awareness by German learners of English : a study in perceptions of quotative be like. Linguistics : An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences, 55, 783-812.
Dorson, J. and Schober, R. (2017). Introduction. Studies in American Naturalism, 12, 1-8.
Gamböck-Strätz, J. (2017). The ordeal of labor and the birth of robot fiction. Amerikastudien : AmST = American Studies, 62, 633-648.
Gamböck-Strätz, J. (2017). The struggle of being alive : laboring bodies in Paolo Bacigalupi's The windup girl. Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies : COPAS, 18, 1-21.
Hessner, T. and Gawlitzek, I. (2017). Totally or slightly different? : a Spoken BNC2014-based investigation of female and male usage of intensifiers. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics : IJCL, 22, 403-428.
Keller, M. (2017). “Saying Thus or to the Same Defect”: A linguistic analysis of Shakespeare’s malapropisms. English Studies : A Journal of English Language and Literature, 98, 244-261.
Loboda, L., Vogelbacher, M. and Gawlitzek, I. (2017). The role of ethnic differences, structural background and process characteristics in the family in preschool children’s language proficiency. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 38, 558-572.
Ofner, D. (2017). Sprachkompetenz und Sprachförderkompetenz frühpädagogischer Fachkräfte. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 6, 247-268.
Percillier, M. and Paulin, C. (2017). A corpus-based investigation of world Englishes in literature. World Englishes : WE, 36, 127-147.
Percillier, M. and Paulin, C. (2017). Postcolonial literature and world Englishes: A corpus-based approach of modes of representation of the non-standard in writing. International Journal of Literary Linguistics : IJLL, 6, 1-24.
Reichardt, U. (2017). Counting success and measuring value: money, numbers and abstraction in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie. Studies in American Naturalism, 12, 89-104.
Reichardt, U. (2017). Theories of the global, global literature, and American literature in a globalizing age. Review of international American studies : RIAS, 10, 35-53.
Schober, R. (2017). “A problem in small boat navigation”: Ocean metaphors and emerging data epistemology in Stephen Crane's “The Open Boat” and Jack London's “The Heathen”. Studies in American Naturalism, 12, 70-88.
Schober, R. (2017). Between nostalgic resistance and critical appropriation : contemporary fiction on/of the information age and the potentials of (post)humanist narrative. Amerikastudien : AmST = American Studies, 61, 359-379.
Schwanecke, C. (2017). Mobile people, weapons, and data streams; mobile audiences and theatre spaces : Rimini Protokoll's Situation rooms as a globalised theatre experience. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 5, 358-371.
Steinhilber, D. (2017). The perils of self-consciousness : Heinrich von Kleist's 'Über das Marionettentheater' in David Forster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Critique : Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 58, 548-557.
Tytus, A. (2017). Asymmetrical priming effects : an exploration of trilingual German–English–French lexico-semantic memory. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 46, 1625-1644.
Tytus, A. E. and Rundblad, G. (2017). Cross-linguistic semantic transfer in bilingual Chinese-English speakers. International journal of Applied Linguistics : INJAL, 27, 697-711.
Brüske, A. and Lusin, C. (2016). “One continent/To Another” : cultural flows and poetic form in the South Asian and Caribbean diasporas – and beyond. Atlantic Studies, 13, 433-444.
Danter, S. (2016). Posthumane Autonomie: Natur- und Kulturgewalt im Naturalismus und Stephen Cranes 'The Red Badge of Courage'. Philologie im Netz : PhiN, Beih., 42-60.
Danter, S., Reichardt, U. and Schober, R. (2016). Theorizing the quantified self : self-knowledge and posthumanist agency in contemporary US-American literature. Digital Culture & Society, 2, 53-70.
Fehrle, J. (2016). “Zombies don't recognize borders” : capitalism, ecology, and mobility in the zombie outbreak narrative. Amerikastudien : AmST = American Studies, 61, 527-544.
Fehrle, J. (2016). Giocando con il Cuore di tenebra : adattare Conrad/Coppola. Acoma : rivista internazionale di studi nordamericani, 23, 218-235.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2016). Einleitung. Philologie im Netz : PhiN. Beiheft, 10, 1-8.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2016). Making love to whale and bear : human-animal relationships in Zakes Mda's The whale caller and Marian Engel's Bear. Anglistik, 27, 71-83.
Koschorreck, M. (2016). Analyzing the network oft traumas in Colum McCann's Let the great world spin. Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies : COPAS, 17, 1-21.
Lahmann, C., Steinkrauss, R. and Schmidt, M. S. (2016). Factors affecting grammatical and lexical complexity of long-term L2 speakers’ oral proficiency. Language Learning, 66, 354-385.
Reichardt, U. (2016). Ich messe, also bin ich? Forum : das Magazin der Universität Mannheim, 2016, 45-45.
Schober, R. (2016). Between nostalgic resistance and critical appropriation : Contemporary American fiction on/of the information age and the potentials of (post)humanist narrative. Amerikastudien : AmST = American Studies, 61, 359-357.
Schwanecke, C. (2016). Theatre, narrative, and cultural change on the early modern stage : Richard Brome's A jovial crew (1641/2) at the dawn of the English Civil War. REAL : yearbook of research in English and American literature, 32, 145-167.
Tytus, A. E. and Rundblad, G. (2016). Cross-language priming as a means of investigating bilingual conceptual representations : a comparison of visual and auditory modality. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 6, 440-466.
Berning, N., Nünning, A. and Schwanecke, C. (2015). (Trans-)national criteria, norms and standards in literary studies : a comparative analysis of criteria-based 'ex ante' evaluation forms of funding proposals in the humanities. Germanisch-romanische Monatsschrift : GRM, 65, 115-135.
Davydova, J. (2015). A study in the perception of native and non-native Englishes by German learners. Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching : JLLT, 6, 89-118.
Davydova, J. and Buchstaller, I. (2015). Expanding the circle to Learner English: investigating quotative marking in a German student community. American Speech, 90, 441-478.
Fehrle, J. (2015). And I would call it “A Southern” : renewing/obscuring the Blaxploitation Western. Safundi : the journal of South African and American studies, 16, 291-306.
Fehrle, J. (2015). Gaming into the Heart of Darkness : adapting Conrad/Coppola. South Atlantic review : SAR, 80, 234-253.
Fehrle, J. (2015). Leading into the franchise : remediation as (simulated) transmedia world ; the case of Scott Pilgrim. Image : Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft, 21, 4-16.
Lorette, P. and Dewaele, J.-M. (2015). Emotion recognition ability in English among L1 and LX users of English. International Journal of Language and Culture : IJoLC, 2, 62-86.
Paulin, C. and Percillier, M. (2015). Oral varieties of English in a literary corpus of West African and South East Asian prose (1954–2013): commitment to local identities and catering for foreign readers. Études de Stylistique Anglaise, 9, 59-79.
Percillier, M. (2015). Non-standard features of Asian Englishes in comment forums of social news websites. Recherches Anglaises et Nord-Américaines : RANAM, 48, 31-50.
Reichardt, U. (2015). The network as a category in cultural studies and as a model for conceptualizing America. Amerikastudien : AmST = American Studies, 60, 17-35.
Reichardt, U., Schäfer, H. and Schober, R. (2015). Introduction: Network theory and American studies. Amerikastudien : AmST = American Studies, 60, 11-15.
Roth, C., Hopp, H. and Thoma, D. (2015). Effekte von Fort- und Weiterbildung auf die Sprachförderkompetenz frühpädagogischer Fachkräfte. Frühe Bildung, 4, 218-225.
Salakhyan, E. (2015). The attitude of Slavic speakers toward English(es): Native and non-native English judged from Germany and Ukraine. English Today : ET, 31, 34-39.
Schober, R. (2015). America as network : Notions of interconnectedness in American transcendentalism and pragmatism. Amerikastudien : AmST = American Studies, 60, 97-119.
Tracy, R. (2015). Spracherwerb im Einwanderungskontext. Migration und soziale Arbeit : iza, 37, 299-305.
Trips, C. and Kornfilt, J. (2015). Introduction. Language Typology and Universals = Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, 68, 233-240.
Trips, C. and Kornfilt, J. (2015). Typological aspects of phrasal compounds in German, English, Turkish and Turkic. Language Typology and Universals = Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, 68, 281-321.
Vogelbacher, M. (2015). Wertorientierungen bei Kindern im Vorschulalter : eine explorative Studie mittels eines verbalen Selbstauskunftsverfahrens. Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation : ZSE, 35, 396-416.

Karst, K., Thoma, D., Derkau, J., Seifried, J. and Münzer, S. (eds.) (2021). Lehrer*innenbildung im Kontext leistungsbezogener Heterogenität und Mehrsprachigkeit von Schüler*innen. Münster ; New York: Waxmann.
Gonnermann, A., Schuhmaier, S. and Schwander, L. (eds.) (2021). Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus : Fallbeispiele aus dem 21. Jahrhundert. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
Reichardt, U. and Schober, R. (eds.) (2020). Laboring bodies and the quantified self. Bielefeld: transcript.
Lusin, C. and Haekel, R. (eds.) (2019). Community, seriality and the State of the Nation : British and Irish television series in the 21st century. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
Arghavan, M., Hirschfelder, N., Kopp, L. and Motyl, K. (eds.) (2019). Who can speak and who is heard/hurt? : facing problems of 'race', racism and ethnic diversity in the humanities in Germany. Bielefeld: transcript.
Lusin, C. (2018). Imperial selves : negotiating collectivity in Anglo-Indian life-writing. Trier: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
Frank, K. and Lusin, C. (eds.) (2017). Finance, terror, and science on stage : current public concerns in 21st-century British drama. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
Trips, C. and Kornfilt, J. (eds.) (2017). Further investigations into the nature of phrasal compounding. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Schober, R. and Motyl, K. (eds.) (2017). The failed individual : amid exclusion, resistance, and the pleasure of non-conformity. Frankfurt a. M. ; New York: Campus Verlag.
Percillier, M. (2016). World Englishes and second language acquisition : Insights from Southeast Asian Englishes. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Redder, A., Naumann, J. and Tracy, R. (eds.) (2015). Forschungsinitiative Sprachdiagnostik und Sprachförderung – Ergebnisse. Münster ; New York: Waxmann.
Lahmann, C. (2015). Beyond barriers : complexity, accuracy, and fluency in long-term L2 speakers’ speech. Zutphen: Wöhrmann.
Trips, C. (2015). English syntax in three dimensions : history – synchrony – diachrony. Berlin [u.a.]: De Gruyter Mouton.

Gonnermann, A. (2021). „Have there been unexplained deaths?”: Kapitalismus, Beschleunigung und die Rolle des Theaters in Alan Bennetts Allelujah! (2018). In Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus : Fallbeispiele aus dem 21. Jahrhundert (S. 45-66). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
Gonnermann, A., Schuhmaier, S. and Schwander, L. (2021). Zur Thematik und Aktualität dieses Bandes. In Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus : Fallbeispiele aus dem 21. Jahrhundert (S. 9-20). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
Lusin, C. (2021). Der 'Pate' ist tot: Macht, Markt und Moral in der BBC-Serie McMafia (2018). In Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus : Fallbeispiele aus dem 21. Jahrhundert (S. 89-112). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
Lusin, C. (2021). Der lange Schatten des Kolonialismus: Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness. Eine literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektive. In Krise(n) der Moderne : über Literatur und Zeitdiagnostik (S. 137-148). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
Schuhmaier, S. (2021). Wert und Werte im Kapitalismus: Die Songtexte Kae Tempests und Kanos. In Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus : Fallbeispiele aus dem 21. Jahrhundert (S. 139-164). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
Schwander, L. (2021). „Another world is possible“: Arundhati Roys anti-kaptialistische Vision in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017). In Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus : Fallbeispiele aus dem 21. Jahrhundert (S. 211-230). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
Thoma, D. and Ofner, D. (2021). Bedingungsfaktoren für die Entwicklung von Basiskompetenzen für sprachsensibles Unterrichten bei gymnasialen Lehramtsstudierenden. In Lehrer*innenbildung im Kontext leistungsbezogener Heterogenität und Mehrsprachigkeit von Schüler*innen (S. 139-160). Münster ; New York: Waxmann.
Trips, C. (2021). Diachronie des Englischen. In Linguistik : eine Einführung (nicht nur) für Germanisten, Romanisten und Anglisten (S. ). Berlin ; Heidelberg: Springer.
Gamböck-Strätz, J. (2020). Subverting late capitalist comfort : Affective connections in Deepak Unnikrishnan's Temporary People. In Comfort in contemporary culture : the challenges of a concept (S. 133-148). Bielefeld: transcript.
Gonnermann, A. (2020). “We are the spark that will light the fire”: Hope, the cyclical pattern of resistance, and concrete dystopia in Disney’s The Last Jedi. In Resist and persist : essays on social revolution in 21st century narratives (S. 186-196). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.
Gonnermann, A. (2020). “You don’t have to be a monster. You have a choice”: Supernatural, free will and the deterministic concept of monstrosity. In Supernatural out of the box : essays on the metatextuality of the series (S. 90-103). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.
Percillier, M. (2020). Allostructions, homostructions or a constructional family? Changes in the network of secondary predicate constructions in Middle English. In Nodes and networks in diachronic construction grammar (S. 214-242). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Reichardt, U. (2020). Reconsidering agency and choice: The office, the wall, and the tax code (Herman Melville, “Bartleby” and David Foster Wallace, The Pale King). In Laboring bodies and the quantified self (S. 41-59). Bielefeld: transcript.
Arghavan, M., Hirschfelder, N. and Motyl, K. (2019). Who can speak and who is heard/hurt? Facing problems of 'race', racism and ethnic diversity in the humanities in Germany: A survey of the issues at stake. In Who can speak and who is heard/hurt? : facing problems of 'race', racism and ethnic diversity in the humanities in Germany (S. 9-42). Bielefeld: transcript.
Glomb, S. (2019). 'You wonderful priest': Community as the essence of Christianity in Broken (2017). In Community, seriality and the State of the Nation : British and Irish television series in the 21st century (S. 239-260). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
Gonnermann, A. (2019). 'With great power comes'... nothing: Superheroes, teenage delinquents, and dysfunctional community structures in Misfits (2009-2013). In Community, seriality and the State of the Nation : British and Irish television series in the 21st century (S. 213-238). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
Lusin, C. (2019). Drugs, sheep, and broken lives: Dysfunctional families, violence, and the subversion of nostalgia in Happy Valley (2014-). In Community, seriality and the State of the Nation : British and Irish television series in the 21st century (S. 167-191). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
Lusin, C. and Haekel, R. (2019). 'This is England' : Community, the State of the Nation, and seriality in contemporary British and Irish television series. In Community, seriality and the State of the Nation : British and Irish television series in the 21st century (S. 9-23). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
Reichardt, U. (2019). African American music in the Americas: slavery, sounds, and forms of “knowledge”. In Sonic politics : music and the narration of the social in the Americas from the 1960s to the present (S. 44-50). London and New York: Routledge.
Reichardt, U. (2019). Globalisierung und der transnational turn in der Literaturwissenschaft. In Handbuch Literatur und Transnationalität (S. 106-123). Berlin ; Boston: De Gruyter.
Schober, R. (2019). Adaptation as connection: A network theoretical approach to convergence, participation, and co-production. In Adaptation in the age of media convergence (S. 31-54). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Schober, R. (2019). The books that count: Big data versus narrative in Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Joshua Cohen's Book of Numbers. In The printed book in contemporary American culture : medium, object, metaphor (S. 31-51). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Schuhmaier, S. (2019). Tommy Shelby's modern family business: The ethics of community in Peaky Blinders (2013-). In Community, seriality and the State of the Nation : British and Irish television series in the 21st century (S. 27-50). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
Schwander, L. (2019). 'He's one of us': Community, imperialism, and the narrative of progress in Indian Summers (2015-2016). In Community, seriality and the State of the Nation : British and Irish television series in the 21st century (S. 119-142). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
Stein, A., Ingham, R. and Trips, C. (2019). What's a diachronically stable system in a language-contact situation? : the case of the English recipient passive. In The determinants of diachronic stability (S. 215-243). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Benjamins.
Gawlitzek, I. (2018). Kinderbücher im Kontext sprachlichen und interkulturellen Lernens. In Sprachen und Kulturen (S. 159-176). Frankfurt a.M.: Grundschulverband e.V.
Hopp, H., Kieseier, T., Vogelbacher, M. and Thoma, D. (2018). Einflüsse und Potenziale der Mehrsprachigkeit im Englischerwerb in der Primarstufe. In Potenziale von Herkunftssprachen : sprachliche und außersprachliche Einflussfaktoren (S. 57-80). Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
Hopp, H., Kieseier, T., Vogelbacher, M. and Thoma, D. (2018). L1 effects in the early L3 acquisition of vocabulary and grammar. In Foreign language education in multilingual classrooms (S. 305-330). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Benjamins.
Müller, A., Schulz, P. and Tracy, R. (2018). Spracherwerb. In Konzepte zur Sprach- und Schriftsprachförderung entwickeln (S. 53-68). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
Reichardt, U. (2018). Sklaverei, Freiheit und Eigentum: Zur Auseinandersetzung über die Sklaverei in der US-amerikanischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts. In Sklaverei und Recht: Zwischen römischer Antike und moderner Welt : Referate des interdisziplinären Münchenwiler Seminars des Collegium generale der Universität Bern im Frühjahrssemester 2016 (S. 157-169). Bern: Haupt Verlag.
Schober, R. (2018). Transcendentalism. In Walt Whitman in context (S. 189-197). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Schwanecke, C. (2018). Exploring fragile relationships in the twenty-first century : love and marriage in David Nicholl's One Day (2009) and Mark Haddon's The Read House (2012). In The British novel in the twenty-first century : cultural concerns – literary developments – model interpretations (S. 173-185). Trier: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
Stein, A. and Trips, C. (2018). Entlehnung von Argumentstruktur in Sprachkontaktsituationen. In Digital Humanities : Perspektiven der Praxis (S. 149-163). Berlin: Frank & Timme.
Trips, C. and Stein, A. (2018). A comparison of multi-genre and single-genre corpora in the context of contact-induced change. In Diachronic corpora, genre, and language change (S. 241-260). Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publ. Comp.
Trips, C. and Stein, A. (2018). Cleft sentences in the history of French and English: a case of pragmatic borrowing? In Focus realization in Romance and beyond (S. 287-310). Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publ. Comp.
Fehrle, J. (2017). Destined to fail : cosmetic surgery, female body image, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The birth-mark”. In The failed individual : amid exclusion, resistance, and the pleasure of non-conformity (S. 99-118). Frankfurt ; New York: Campus-Verlag.
Frank, K. and Lusin, C. (2017). Introduction : Current debates and British drama since 2000. In Finance, terror, and science on stage : current public concerns in 21st-century British drama (S. 9-15). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
Glomb, S. (2017). “No view from Nnowhere”: Science, freedom, and determinism in Nick Payne's Incognito (2014). In Finance, terror, and science on stage (S. 185-210). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
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