Research interests

• Cognitive-Functional grammar
• Pragmatics and discourse
• Corpus linguistics
• Phonetics and phonology
• English language teaching
• Member of the FunCog research group

Selected Publications

• 2011. "On thetical grammar", Studies in Language 35.4: 848-893. (with Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva)
• 2011. "Explaining diverging evidence: the case of clause-initial I think", in: Schönefeld, Doris (ed.). Converging evidence. Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic research. Amterdam: Benjamins, 81-112.
• 2010 (ed.). New approaches to hedging. Emerald (with W. Mihatsch, S. Schneider)
• 2009. "English comment clauses: position, prosody, and scope". Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 34 (1): 49-75.
• 2008. "Prosody and function of English comment clauses". Folia Linguistica 42 (1): 83-134.
• 2007.  "Spoken parenthetical clauses in English: a taxonomy", in: Dehé, Nicole; Kavalova, Yordanka (eds.). Parentheticals. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 25-52.
• 2006. "Some comments on comment clauses: a semantic classification", in Povolná, R.; Dontcheva-Navratilova (eds.). Discourse and Interaction 2. Brno: Masaykovy Univerzity, 71-87.
• 2006. "'...That is the question': complementizer omission in extraposed that-clauses". English Language and Linguistics 10 (2): 371-396.
• 2005. "It-extraposition in English: a functional view". International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10 (2): 119-159.
• 2005. "Computer corpora and the language classroom: on the potential and limitations of computer corpora in language teaching". ReCALL 17 (1): 65-84 (with B. Mehlmauer)
• 2004. It-extraposition and non-extraposition in English. A study of syntax in spoken and written texts. Wien: Braumüller. ISBN 3-7003-1461-2
• 2004.  "Using non-extraposition in spoken and written texts: a functional perspective", in: Aijmer, Karin; Stenström, Anna-Brita. (eds.). Discourse patterns in spoken and written corpora. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 219-242.
• 2003.  "On the syntactic and semantic status of anticipatory it". English Language and Linguistics 7 (2): 235-255.
• 2002. "That’s it? On the unanticipated 'controversy' over anticipatory it. A reply to Aimo Seppänen". English Studies 83 (6): 541-550.
• 2001.  "Learner autonomy: a guiding principle in designing a CD-ROM for intonation practice". ReCALL 13 (2): 179-190.
• 2000. "It-extraposition and non-extraposition in English discourse", in: Mair, Christian; Hundt, Marianne (eds.). Corpus Linguistics and linguistic theory. Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, 157-175.

Complete list of publications

CV

• Studies of English and French language & literature, University of Vienna and University College London
• Master of Arts in Modern English Language, University College London
• Teacher for English and French at Upper Secondary School, Vienna
• Lecturer and research assistant at Department of English, University of Vienna
• Research assistant Survey of English Usage, University College London
• PhD in English Linguistics, University of Vienna
• Lecturer at: University of Economics & Business Admin, University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule), PÄDAKs
• Current position: Senior Lecturer ('Senior Scientist'), Department of English, University of Vienna

Teaching

• Corpus linguistics
• Grammar

Courses taught