Richard Matthews (†)
Prof. Dr. Richard Matthews (†)
Former position at the English Department:
Lecturer | English Language Practice
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
| 1983–85 | Research position with 'English Tensing System' project (directed by Prof. Alfred Schopf) |
| from 1994 | Privatdozent in English Philology (Freiburg) |
| 1995 | Visiting lecturer in Basel |
| 1995–96 | Substitute professor of English linguistics (Saarbrücken) |
| 1997 | Substitute professor of English linguistics (Konstanz) |
| 2000–01 | Visiting lecturer in Basel |
| 2001 | Awarded title of außerplanmäßiger Professor |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- English grammar
- English phonetics and phonology
- German-English translation
- Lexicology
- English-German contrastive syntax
- Tense, aspect and modality
- Scots
PUBLICATIONS
- 1987. 'Present Perfect Tenses: Towards an Integrated Functional Account'. In: Alfred Schopf (ed.) Essays on Tensing in English, Vol. I: Reference Time, Tense and Adverbs. Tübingen: Niemeyer. 111–176.
- 1989. 'Reference Time and Modality'. In: Alfred Schopf (ed.) Essays on Tensing in English, Vol II Time, Test and Modality. Tübingen: Niemeyer. 189–246.
- 1991. Words and Worlds. On the Linguistic Analysis of Modality. Frankfurt: Lang.
- 1993. Papers on Sematics and Grammar. Frankfurt: Lang.
- 1996. "Oblique' Modals in English and German'. In: Language Sciences, 18.1-2, 363–379.
- 2003a. 'Modal Auxiliary constructions, TAM and Interrogatives'. In: Roberta Facchinetti, Manfred Krug & Frank Palmer. (eds.) Modality in Contemporary English. de Gruyter. 47–70.
- 2003b. 'English Vowel Phonology and the quest for the "fourth dimension"'. In: Cornelia Tschichold (ed.) English Core Linguistics. Essays in honour of D.J. Allerton. Bern: Peter Lang. 69–91.
- 2004. 'Structural and collocational restrictions on complex premodifiers in NPs'. In: David Allerton, Nadja Nesselhauff & Paul Skandera (eds.) Phraseological Units: basic concepts and their application. International Cooper Series in English Language and Literature 8. Basel: Schwabe. 121–143.