Agnes Hunter
Agnes Jäger (* 1975 ) is a German specialist in German .
Life
From 1994 to 2001 she studied German linguistics, philosophy and folklore at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , the University of Wales, Lampeter and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation , examination prize of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Jena 2001). From 2001 to 2006 she was a research assistant at the Chair for Theoretical Linguistics, Institute for German Linguistics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . From 2006 to 2012 she was a research assistant at the chair for historical linguistics, Institute for Linguistics at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main , co-opted project collaborator in the project “Syntax of Hessian Dialects”. After receiving his doctorate in 2007 as Dr. phil. At the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, she held a junior professorship (with tenure track) for German language history at the Institute for German Language and Literature I at the University of Cologne from 2013 to 2018 . After the Habilitation 2017 at the University of Cologne, she has a university professorship in German language history at the Institute for German Language and Literature I, University of since 2018 Cologne .
Her main research interests are German language history (Old High German, Middle High German, Early New High German), historical syntax, historical morphology, diachrony of the syntax-semantics interface, language-comparative diachrony, language change theory and variation.
Fonts (selection)
- History of German negation . Amsterdam 2008, ISBN 90-272-5501-6 .
- Edited with Chiara Gianollo and Doris Penka: Language change at the syntax-sematics interface . Berlin 2015, ISBN 3-11-035217-6 .
- Comparative Constructions in German: Diachronic Change and Synchronous Variation . Berlin 2018, ISBN 3-11-055872-6 .
- Edited with Gisella Ferraresi and Helmut Weiß : Clause structure and word order in the history of German . Oxford 2018, ISBN 978-0-19-881354-5 .
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| SURNAME | Hunter, Agnes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |