Research
Mareike Keller has been teaching and doing research at the English Department since 2014. In March 2021 she joined the Research Group Emerging Grammars (RUEG) as a principal investigator and is now leading a project investigating the lexicon of heritage speakers. Her research interests include multilingualism, phraseology and computational methods for annotation and analysis of modern and historical texts.
Biographic Information
Following her studies in Slavic Languages, English Linguistics and German Linguistics at the University of Tübingen, she received a doctorate from the University of Mannheim in 2014 (topic of dissertation: Phrasemes in bilingual discourse). In 2021 she completed her post-doctoral project on Code-Switching in Middle English Texts.
Teaching
Publications
- 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(3), 244–261. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2017.1283119
- Schulz, S. & Keller, M. (2016). Code-switching ubique est – Language identification and part-of-speech tagging for historical mixed text. In N. Reiter (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH 2016) : August 11, 2016, Berlin, Germany (S. 43–51). , Association for Computational Linguistics: Stroudsburg, PA. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W16-2105
- Keller, M. (2020). Code-switching : unifying contemporary and historical perspectives . Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34667-6
- Keller, M. (2014). Phraseme im bilingualen Diskurs : “All of a sudden geht mir ein Licht auf” . Frankfurt a. M. [u.a.]: Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-04258-0
- Keller, M. (2021). Developing a structural template for historical code-switching.. In E. Glaser, M. Prinz & S. Ptashnyk (eds.), Historisches Codeswitching mit Deutsch : multilinguale Praktiken in der Sprachgeschichte (S. 437–464). Berlin ; Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110752793-015
- Keller, M. (2020). Compositionality: Evidence from Code-Switching. In E. Piirainen, N. A. Filatkina & S. Stumpf (eds.), Formulaic language and new data : theoretical and methodological implications. (S. 197–222). Berllin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110669824-009
- Keller, M. (2017). Code-switched adjectives in macaronic sermons. In E. Louviot (eds.), Studies in language variation and change 2 : shifts and turns in the history of English (S. 197–216). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.