Alexander Lasch

Alexander Lasch (2017)

Alexander Lasch (* 1976 ) is a German linguist with the main research areas Construction Grammar of German , Digital Humanities , functional and regional varieties and forensic linguistics, corporate communications, simple and easy language. Since 2017 he has been Professor of German Linguistics and Language History at the Institute for German Studies at TU Dresden .

Life

After graduating from high school , Lasch began teaching German and history for grammar school in 1995 at the Technical University of Dresden and , after successfully passing his state examination, received his doctorate there between 2001 and 2004 under Karlheinz Jakob in the field of German linguistics. As a result, he was initially a research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 573 “Pluralization in the Early Modern Age” in the sub-project “Authority of the Nothing” with Peter Strohschneider at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (2004–2006). During this time he was also the scientific coordinator of the international doctoral college “Textuality in the Pre-Modern Age” at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich as part of the Bavarian Elite Network. In 2006 Lasch became a research assistant at the chair for German linguistics at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , before taking on the position of professor for applied linguistics at the TU Dresden for the winter semester 2011/12 and the summer semester 2012. After this substitution, Lasch returned to his position in Kiel, where he completed his habilitation in 2016 and received the Venia Legendi for German Linguistics.

In February 2017, Alexander Lasch was appointed Professor of German Linguistics and Language History at the Technical University of Dresden ( Institute for German Studies in the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies ) for the 2017/18 winter semester .

Fonts (selection)

• Descriptions of life in time: on the communication of biographical texts in the pietistic communities of the Moravian Brethren and the Dresden deaconess sisterhood in the 19th century ( dissertation ), Lit Verlag , Berlin / Münster 2005, ISBN 978-3-8258-9132-9 .
• together with Alexander Ziem : Construction grammar: Concepts and fundamentals of use-based approaches , De Gruyter , Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-027294-9 .
• Nonagentive constructions of German (habilitation thesis), De Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-049486-0 .

Web links

• Literature by Alexander Lasch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Alexander Lasch on the website of the Technical University of Dresden
• Alexander Lasch on the website of the German Department of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
• Alexander Lasch's YouTube channel
• Jana Höhnisch: Dr. Alexander Lasch - new professor at the Institute for German Studies. Technische Universität Dresden, March 5, 2018, accessed on March 13, 2018 .