Research
Carola Trips holds the chair of English Linguistics /Diachrony (Anglistik IV) at the University of Mannheim and works in the field of historical linguistics.
Since January 2022, she has been spokesperson for the DFG research group “Structuring the input in language processing, acquisition, and change” (SILPAC, FOR 5157, Gepris 437487447).
From 2015 to 2021, she worked on the DFG project “Borrowing of verb argument structure from Old French into Middle English” (BASICS, Gepris 265711632) (in cooperation with Professor Achim Stein, University of Stuttgart 2015- 2021).
In addition to synchronic and diachronic syntax and morphology (theories), her research interests include language contact, language change, lexical semantics and corpus linguistics.
She is editor of the Mannheim Papers in Multilingualism, Acquisition, and Change (MAPMAC).
She is a reviewer for journals (including English Language and Linguistics, Journal of Historical Syntax, Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics) and organisations (including Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), Fritz Thyssen Foundation).
Biographic Information
Carola Trips did her doctorate and habilitation at the University of Stuttgart, where she also completed her studies in English and German to become a teacher and master’s degree.
Her dissertation, which she completed with a scholarship in the DFG graduate school “Linguistic Foundations for Language Processing” and completed in 2001, dealt with word order change in the verbal phrase in Middle English. In her habilitation of 2007, she examined the formation of nominal derivation suffixes in the history of English.
From 2007–2009 she held the professorship of English Linguistics/
Diachrony at the University of Mannheim. In 2009, she was appointed and accepted this professorship and was appointed to Freie Universität Berlin. She has also been invited to the universities of Århus, Wuppertal and Frankfurt am Main. Teaching
Carola Trips represents Englisch teaching in the field of system linguistics and in particular in her research areas of language change and language contact. She teaches courses such as “Syntax in three Dimensions”, “Studying verbs in corpora”, “Language Contact” or “Language Change”.
Together with her team, she has developed the teaching toolbox Anglistik IV.
She is course advisor for the Master programme “Language and Communication”.
Publications
- Trips, C. & Rainsford, T. M. (2022). Tolerating subject-experiencers? Yang’s tolerance principle applied to psych verbs under contact in middle english. Journal of Historical Syntax, 6(Article 12), 1–43. https://doi.org/10.18148/hs/2022.v6i12.118
- Trips, C. (2020). Impersonal and reflexive uses of Middle English psych verbs under contact influence with Old French. Linguistics Vanguard, 6(s2, Article 20), 1–14. https://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. (2002). Variation and change in Old and Middle English – on the validity of the double base hypothesis. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 4, 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. 409–430). 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. & Stokes, P. A. (2023). From original sources to linguistic analysis: Tools and datasets for the investigation of multilingualism in medieval english. In S. M. Pons-Sanz & L. Sylvester (eds.), Medieval english in a multilingual context : current methodologies and appoaches (S. 49–91). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30947-2_3
- Trips, C. (2021). Diachronie des Englischen. In S. Dipper, R. Klabunde & W. Mihatsch (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. (2017). Morphological change. In Oxford research encyclopedia. Linguistics (S. 1–22). : Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.260
- 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