Professor Kortmann | Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Kortmann

CHAIR FOR ENGLISH LINGUISTICS

Bernd Kortmann is Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Eastern Finland and is an elected member of the Academia Europaea.

bernd.kortmann@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
☎ +49 761 203-3318

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PUBLICATIONS

Professor Kortmann's publications include

• four monographs,
• ten edited volumes,
• the two-volume multimedia reference work A Handbook of Varieties of English (published in 2004, as paperback in 2008),
• one print atlas on grammatical variation in the anglophone world (2012),
• the open access electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English (version 2.0 published November 2013),
• and about 90 research articles and reviews in journals and collective volumes.

He has published on semantics, semantic change, grammaticalization, typology, language complexity, history of linguistics, and English grammar. His main research interest over the last decade has been the grammar of non-standard varieties of English around the world, especially from a typological perspective. Bernd Kortmann serves as co-editor of two book series, both published by De Gruyter Mouton: Topics in English Linguistics and Dialects of English (formerly Edinburgh University Press). As of June 2012, Bernd Kortmann also serves as one of three editors of the journal English Language and Linguistics (Cambridge University Press). Apart from his duties as a series and journal editor, he is a member of the editorial boards of the journals English Today and Transactions of the Philological Society.

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