Christian Mair (Linguist)

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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

Individual evidence

  1. Kürschner's German Scholarly Calendar, sv Mair, Christian
  2. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Christian Mair. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed June 20, 2016 .