Prof. Dr. Carola Trips

University of Mannheim
Anglistik IV
B 6, 30–32 – Room 029
68159 Mannheim

Phone: +49 621 181–2347
E-mail: ctripsmail.uni-mannheim.de

Consultation hour(s):
Tue 4–5 p.m.

Appointments currently take place via Zoom. Please use the following online form to book a slot: https://www.phil.uni-mannheim.de/en/anglistik/abteilungen/anglistik-iv/team/sprechstundenformular-trips-1/

Additional appointments on request

Professor Carola Trips holds the chair of Diachronic English Linguistics at the University of Mannheim and is responsible for giving subject-specific academic advice to students of the “Language and Communication” degree program (M.A.).

She habilitated at and received her PhD from the University of Stuttgart after having studied English and German Studies for her double degree at the same university.

In her research, she is interested in synchronic and diachronic syntax and morphology (including syntactical and morphological theory) as well as in language contact, language change, lexical semantics and corpus linguistics in English (and contrastively in other Germanic languages like German). Her current research projects are the DFG project “Borrowing of verb argument structure from Old French into Middle English” (in cooperation with Prof. Achim Stein, University of Stuttgart, 2015-2021) and a research unit which will investigate language change from the historical linguistic and psycholinguistic perspective.

She teaches a variety of courses (lectures, undergraduate and research seminars) which cover a broad range of topics such as “Syntax in three dimensions”, “Theoretical and Diachronic Aspects of Morphology” or “Language contact”, “Language change” etc.

Trips, C. (2020). Impersonal and reflexive uses of Middle English psych verbs under contact influence with Old French. Linguistics vanguard, 6(s2), Article 20190016. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0016
Trips, C. & 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(1), 232–267. https://doi.org/10.1163/19552629-01201008
Trips, C. & Kornfilt, J. (2015). Introduction. Language Typology and Universals = Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, 68(3), 233–240. https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2015-0012
Trips, C. & Kornfilt, J. (2015). Typological aspects of phrasal compounds in German, English, Turkish and Turkic. Language Typology and Universals = Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, 68(3), 281–321. https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2015-0015
Stein, A. & Trips, C. (2014). Les phrases clivées en ancien français : un modèle pour l'anglais? Revue de linguistique romane : (RLiR), 78(309), 33–55.
Trips, C. (2014). How to account for the expressive nature of phrasal compounds in a conceptual-semantic framework. SKASE journal of theoretical linguistics, 11(1), 33–61.
Fuß, E. & Trips, C. (2009). Introduction. Language Typology and Universals = Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, 62(4), 251–257. https://doi.org/10.1524/stuf.2009.0019
Trips, C. (2003). Stylistic fronting in the Ormulum – Scandinavian syntactic phenomena in Early Middle English texts. Nordlyd : Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 31(2), 457–472. https://doi.org/10.7557/12.15
Fuß, E. & Trips, C. (2001). Variation and change in Old and Middle English – on the validity of the Double Base Hypothesis. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 4(3), 171–224. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016588502117

Trips, C. (2013). The relevance of phrasal compounds for the architecture of grammar. Mannheim.

Percillier, M. & Trips, C. (2020). Lemmatising verbs in Middle English corpora: The benefit of enriching the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English 2 (PPCME2), the Parsed Corpus of Middle English Poetry (PCMEP), and A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English (PLAEME). In N. Calzolari (eds.), LREC 2020 : twelfth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation$d May 11–16 , 2020, Marseille, France : conference proceedings (S. 7172–7180). , ELRA: Paris.
Trips, C. (2020). Copying of argument structure: A gap in borrowing scales and a new approach to model contact-induced change. In B. Drinka (eds.), Historical Linguistics 2017 : selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017 (S. 410–430). Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Benjamins: Amsterdam [u.a.]. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.350.19tri
Schauwecker, Y. & Trips, C. (2018). Who came riding first? Le chevalier or the knight? A multiple corpus analysis investigating language contact. In A. U. Frank (eds.), CRH-2 : proceedings of the Second Workshop on Corpus-based Research in the Humanities 25–26 January 2018 Vienna, Austria (S. 181–190). , Gerastree Proceedings: Wien.
Trips, C. (2016). An analysis of phrasal compounds in the model of Parallel Architecture. In P. . Hacken (eds.), The semantics of compounding (S. 153–177). Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316163122.009
Trips, C. (2016). Syntactic analysis of phrasal compounds in corpora: a challenge for NLP tools. In N. Calzolari (eds.), LREC 2016, Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation : May 23-28, 2016, Portorož, Slovenia (S. 1092–1097). , European Language Resources Association, ELRA-ELDA: Paris.
Stein, A. & Trips, C. (2012). Diachronic aspects of borrowing aspect : the role of Old French in the development of the be going to + INF construction. In (S. 227–246). SHS web of Conferences : open access proceedings in Social and Human Sciences, EDP Sciences: Les Ulis. https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20120100254
Trips, C. (2012). Empirical and theoretical aspects of phrasal compounds: against the “syntax explains it all” attitude. In A. Ralli (eds.), Morphology and the architecture of grammar : on-line proceedings of the Eighth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM8), Cagliari, Italy , 14–17 September 2011 (S. 322–346). , University of Patras: Patras.
Trips, C. (2008). New insights into the rivalry of suffixes. In A. Ralli (eds.), Morphology and Dialectology : on-line proceedings of the Sixth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM6), Ithaca, 27–30 September 2007 (S. 132–146). , University of Patras: Patras.
Trips, C. & Stein, A. (2008). Was Old French -able borrowable? A diachronic study of word-formation processes due to language contact. In R. Dury (eds.), English Historical Linguistics 2006 : selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006 ; Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change (S. 217–239). Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Benjamins: Amsterdam [u.a.].
Trips, C. (2006). Syntactic sources of word-formation processes : Evidence from Old English and Old High German. In J. M. Hartmann (eds.), Comparative studies in Germanic syntax : from Afrikaans to Zurich German; [selection of papers presented at the 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop in Tilburg, June 2005] (S. 299–328). Linguistik aktuell : LA, Benjamins: Amsterdam [u.a.]. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.97.14tri
Trips, C. (2000). Scandinavian characteristics in the Ormulum: evidence for Scandinavian influence on the word order change in Early Middle English. In C. Czinglar (eds.), ConSole VIII proceedings : Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (S. 327–342). , Univ., Dep. of General Linguistics, Sole: Leiden.

Trips, C. & Kornfilt, J. (eds.) (2017). Further investigations into the nature of phrasal compounding . Berlin: Language Science Press.
Trips, C. (2015). English syntax in three dimensions : history – synchrony – diachrony . Berlin [u.a.]: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110290097
Trips, C. (2009). Lexical semantics and diachronic morphology : the development of -hood, -dom and -ship in the history of English . Tübingen: Niemeyer .
Fuß, E. & Trips, C. (eds.) (2004). Diachronic clues to synchronic grammar . Amsterdam [u.a.]: Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.72
Trips, C. (2002). From OV to VO in early Middle English . Amsterdam [u.a.]: Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.60

Trips, C. (2021). Diachronie des Englischen. In S. Dipper (eds.), Linguistik : eine Einführung (nicht nur) für Germanisten, Romanisten und Anglisten (S. ). Berlin ; Heidelberg: Springer.
Stein, A., Ingham, R. & Trips, C. (2019). What's a diachronically stable system in a language-contact situation? : the case of the English recipient passive. In A. Breitbarth, M. Bouzouita, L. Danckaert & M. Farasyn (eds.), The determinants of diachronic stability (S. 215–243). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.254.09ste
Stein, A. & Trips, C. (2018). Entlehnung von Argumentstruktur in Sprachkontaktsituationen. In P. Bockwinkel (eds.), Digital Humanities : Perspektiven der Praxis (S. 149–163). Berlin: Frank & Timme.
Trips, C. & Stein, A. (2018). A comparison of multi-genre and single-genre corpora in the context of contact-induced change. In R. J. Whitt (eds.), Diachronic corpora, genre, and language change (S. 241–260). Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publ. Comp. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.85.11tri
Trips, C. & Stein, A. (2018). Cleft sentences in the history of French and English: a case of pragmatic borrowing? In M. García García (eds.), Focus realization in Romance and beyond (S. 287–310). Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publ. Comp. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.201.10car
Trips, C. & Kornfilt, J. (2017). Further insights into phrasal compounding. In C. Trips (eds.), Further investigations into the nature of phrasal compounding (S. 1–11). Berlin: Language Science Press.
Stein, A. & Trips, C. (2016). Modelling language contact with diachronic crosslinguistic data. In S. Featherston (eds.), Quantitative approaches to grammar and grammatical change : perspectives from Germanic (S. 165–187). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110401929-009
Trips, C. (2014). Derivation and historical change. In R. Lieber (eds.), The Oxford handbook of derivational morphology (S. 384–406). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199641642.013.0022
Trips, C. (2014). The position proper of the adjective in Middle English. In P. Sleeman (eds.), Adjectives in Germanic and Romance (S. 73–94). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.212.03tri
Trips, C. & Fuß, E. (2009). The syntax and semantics of the temporal anaphor “then” in Old and Middle English. In A. Alexiadou (eds.), Advances in comparative Germanic syntax (S. 171–195). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.141.08the
Fuß, E. & Trips, C. (2004). Introduction. In E. Fuß (eds.), Diachronic clues to synchronic grammar (S. 1–29). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.72.02fus

Reviewer Activities

For instance for:

English Language and Linguistics
Linguistische Berichte
Morphology
Journal of Historical Linguistics
Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics

For several workshops and conferences, such as:

Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGS)

For foundations and organisations:

German Research Foundation (DFG)
Fritz Thyssen Foundation
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)

Editor of Mannheim Papers in Multilingualism, Acquisition, and Change (MAPMAC)

Memberships

Linguistic Association of Great Britain (LAGB)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)
Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE)
Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV)