Kirsten Middeke

Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben
Institut für Englische Philologie

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Contact

office: JK 29/221
phone: 838 72736
kirsten.middeke@fu-berlin.de
https://fu-berlin.webex.com/meet/kirsten.middeke
Students, please mention the seminar you are writing about, and the semester! (I teach several classes, and course numbers are re-assigned each term, so saying "our course", "your history seminar" or even "17336" doesn't help. Thanks!)

Office hours during the spring break of 2025

Thursday, February 20th, 10-12 (online)
Thursday, February 27th, 14-16
Wednesday, March 12th, 9-11

Please sign up for a slot. If all slots are taken or if you cannot make any of these dates, please send me an e-mail.

Research

Publications

2024. (With Anatol Stefanowitsch and Fuying Lin:) Nominal constructions in spoken academic Englishes: A quantitative corpus-based approach. YGCLA 11(1): 75-104.
2023. (With Anatol Stefanowitsch:) Gender-Marking -ess: The Suffix that Failed. ZAA 71(3):293-319.
2022. The AVOIDANCE IS SEPARATION metaphor in West-Germanic argument structure. ZAA 70:3, 223-262.
2021. The Old English Case System. Verbs and Argument Structure Constructions (Brill Studies in Historical Linguistics 12). Brill.
2019. Subsumed under the dative? On the status of the Old English instrumental, in Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax, edited by Claudia Claridge & Birte Bös, Benjamins.
2013. Dreaming and thinking in Old English, Korpuslinguistische Untersuchungen (Sprachwissenschaft), edited by Anja Hennemann & Claudia Schlaak, 47–58. Frank & Timme.

Conference papers

08.2016 "The status of the Old English Instrumental Case. Evidence from collostructional analysis", ICEHL 19, Universität Duisburg-Essen
08.2016 (With Berit Johannsen:) "Text typology and morphosyntactic variation in Old English", ICEHL 19, Universität Duisburg-Essen
04.2016 "Brauchen wir eigentlich die Argumentstrukturkonstrukion?", 16. NLK, Universität Hamburg
07.2015 "Does Old English have subjects?", Categories in Grammar, Freie Universität Berlin
10.2013 "Probleme der Korpusdatenerhebung für die Untersuchung altenglischer Argumentstrukturkonstruktionen", 4. STaPs, Freie Universität Berlin
08.2012 "Case Assignment in Old English", ICEHL 17, Universität Zürich
03.2012 "Lexical Case in Old English: Subjectless Verbframes", 13. NLK, Universität Potsdam

Teaching

Courses in the winter term of 2024

Introduction to Linguistics
Levels of Linguistic Analysis II: From Lexicon to Grammar
Language Change
Sprache und Macht: Kritische Diskursanalyse (SprunG)

Downloads and links for my students

corpus linguistics

CQP online tutorial by Arne Werfel & Amy Amoakuh
Susanne Flach's cqp resources. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT SUSANNE ABOUT TECHNICAL ISSUES, DIRECT ALL QUERIES TO ME!
Anatol Stefanowitsch's cqp resources.

data processing

Susanne Flach has a very nice video on how to get corpus data into Excel. Or look at the full playlist of her Excel tutorial.
She also has an R tutorial.

term paper writing

planning & structuring

Anatol Stefanowitsch's instructions for writing a research report
My own video presentation on how to write an empirical term paper in lingustics episode 1, episode 2, episode 3
My own video presentation on how to design an academic poster
Planning a research report — guiding questions
Checklist for seminar papers in linguistics
Evaluation grid for seminar papers in linguistics
My blog about writing (papers) — what not to do

word processing & formating