- Department of English
- Teaching
- Research
- Sub-Depts
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) and a multidisciplinary DFG-research unit on the topic of the Tolerance Principle: Modelling second language acquisition and change which the group, including Charles Yang (UPenn), will apply for in 2019.
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.
Publications
- 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.
- 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). , 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.
- C. Trips & J. Kornfilt (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 .
- E. Fuß & C. Trips (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. (2019). Diachronie des Englischen. In S. Dipper (eds.), Linguistik : eine Einführung (nicht nur) für Germanisten, Romanisten und Anglisten : Fortführungswerk (Fortführungswerk, S. ). Berlin ; Heidelberg: Springer.
- 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
- English Language and Linguistics
- Linguistische Berichte
- Morphology
- Journal of Historical Linguistics
- Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
For several workshops and conferences:
- 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)