Christian Mair (Linguist)
Christian Mair (born February 3, 1958 in Innsbruck ) is a German linguist of Austrian origin. He has been Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Freiburg since 1990 .
Career
After doctorate (1985) and habilitation (1990) at the University of Innsbruck , Mair became professor for English linguistics in Freiburg in 1990. In 2005 he was made an honorary doctorate from the University of Iași . In 2006 he became a member of the German Science Council. He has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 2014 .
Scientific focus
- English Sociolinguistics
- Language change in today's English
- Corpus Linguistics
- Modern English grammar
Publications
- 1990: Infinitival Clauses in English , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 1995: English for Anglisten: An introduction to the English language , Tübingen Stauffenberg.
- 1995: English in the World Today: A Survey of Varieties of English around the World , Iași: Ars Nova.
- 1997: Introduction to English Linguistics , Darmstadt: Scientific Book Society.
- 1999 (with Ernst Leisi ): Today's English: Wesenszüge und Problems , 8th edition, Heidelberg: Winter.
- 2006: Twentieth-Century English: History, Variation and Standardization , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 2008: English Linguistics , Tübingen: Narr.
Mair is also co-editor of the journal “ English and American Studies” .
Web links
- Literature by and about Christian Mair in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kürschner's German Scholarly Calendar, sv Mair, Christian
- ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Christian Mair. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed June 20, 2016 .
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SURNAME | Mair, Christian |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linguist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd February 1958 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | innsbruck |