Dr. Ulrike Krischke

• Alt- und Mittelenglische Lektüre (Examensvorbereitung)
• Sprachwissenschaft im Examen (nicht vertieft; Examensvorbereitung)
• How languages work: Spotlight on English
• Phonetik und Phonologie
• Introduction to linguistics
• Etymology: On the origins of words
• Linguistic landscapes
• Reading David Crystal’s The Stories of English
• Reading Baugh & Cable’s The History of English
• Self-study unit (diachron)
• Projektseminar (diachron)
• Speech-within-speech
• From A(rawak) to Z(ulu): English in contact with other languages
• The art and craft of dictionary-making: the history of lexicography
• London Voices
• The adventure of English
• Language change through language contact
• Historical linguistics
• Englisch-Französischer Sprachkontakt
• Shakespeare: A feast of languages
• Chaucer’s Pilgrims: Life and thought, adventure and stories in the Middle Ages
• The life of a family: The Paston Letters
• Einführung ins Mittelenglische
• Einführung ins Altenglische
• Einführung ins Frühneuenglische
• Mittelenglisch auf der Grundlage von Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde
• Sprache und Gesellschaft der Angelsachsen
• The adventure of English
• English in London: A linguistic journey through time
• BA-Kolloquium zur Sprachwissenschaft

I supervise BA theses and Zulassungsarbeiten on topics of English diachronic (and synchronic) linguistics and medieval studies. These can be written either in English or in German. In the following, the topics of Zulassungsarbeiten and BA theses from the past semesters are listed. However, I am open to any suggestions and ideas that students have on their final theses.

• Voices of history
• Language change in South African English
• Language change in Irish English
• Are creoles exceptionalisms? An In-depth analysis of the Linguistic Discourse and Contending Arguments
• Beyond Rhetoric: Linguistic Patterns in Sustainability Reporting for Indicating Corporate Responsibilities in Asset Management
• Migration waves as reflected in London street names. A linguistic analysis of the street names in the City of London.
• Morpho-syntactic change in Multicultural London English
• Multilingual Discourse in Medieval England: Codeswitching in Religious Texts
• Language Contact between Old English and Old Norse: Koineization or Creolization?
• A youth language transcending ethnic boundaries? Young Londoners’ perceptions of Multicultural London English and the role of ethnicity
• The Portrayal of African American Vernacular English in Alice Walker’s “The Colour Purple”
• Uncovering the Magic behind Old English Charms – A Text Type Analysis
• The development of Prince Harry’s accent
• Functions of Code-Switching in Religious Writings of the Middle English Period
• Die Verwendung von redeeinleitenden Verben in der Berichterstattung – ein Vergleich zwischen dem Frühneuenglischen und dem heutigen Englisch
• The Use of Auxiliary Do in the Paston Letters of the Fifteenth Century
• Anglicisms in Finnish: A Comparison Between Generations
• Functionalization of Speech Acts in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet
• Reading between the Lines of Noah Webster's Linguistic Works: The Story of a Man in the Pages of the First American Dictionaries
• Nomenclature in Learner's Dictionaries: Principles and Problems
• Dialects in Comedy: An Analysis of Phonological Features in Dialect Imitations in British Stand-up Comedy
• Men and Women in Conversation
• Gender-Specific Language – A Conversation Analysis of a Political Talk Show
• Conceptual Metaphors in Football News
• Reclaiming Slurs: The Example of Gay and Queer
• London Street Names in the Context of the City's History
• Language Contact between Celtic and English: Influence on the English Progressive?
• Frequency and Constraint Effects on Lexical Access in Unimpaired and Speech-Impaired Subjects
• English – Spanish Contrasts: The Noun Phrase
• Do Programming Languages Mirror Natural Languages?
• Distribution Patterns of going to-future in British and American English – A Corpus Study
• Angelsächsische Personennamen
• Über of als Ersatz für auxiliares have in Modalverbkonstruktionen
• TH-Fronting in London English – A Comparison between 1993 and 2016
• The Difference Between Hong Kong English and British English Usage in Business Context
• Speech Representation in Political News Reporting of Four British Newspapers – A Corpus-based Analysis of Style
• On the Use of be like as a Quotative
• Metaphorical Language in Politics – Hillary Clinton vs. Donald J. Trump
• John Withals' A Short Dictionarie For Yonge Beginners in contrast with the Promptorium Parvulorum
• Glottal Stops in London English – An Analysis of the Differences Between the Sexes and the Social Acceptability of Glottal Stops
• Gender Conceptions in Selected Letters from the Early Modern English Period
• Black London English in Da Ali G Show – eine linguistische Analyse und ein Vergleich der zum Crossing führenden Motivationen von jugendlichen Londonern und der Kunstfigur Ali G
• Between Cockney and RP: David Beckham's Idiolect

Monographien

2013. The Old English Complex Plant Names: A Linguistic Survey and a Catalogue. München: Peter Lang.

Herausgeberschaften

2023. with Renate Bauer, Christine Elsweiler & Kerstin Majewski, eds. Travelling Texts – Texts Travelling. A Gedenkschrift in Memory of Hans Sauer. München: Utz.

2011. with Renate Bauer, eds. More Than Words: English Lexicography and Lexicology Past and Present. Essays Presented to Hans Sauer on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, Part I. Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang.

2011. with Renate Bauer, eds. Fact and Fiction: From the Middle Ages to Modern Times. Essays Presented to Hans Sauer on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, Part II. Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang.

Aufsätze

2026, forthcoming. “Voices of the Past: Traces of orality in Ohthere’s and Wulfstan’s Travel Accounts”. Studia Neophilologica.

2020. “Samuel Norich: Wir wollten Normale sein”. LebensBilder. Eds. Stephanie Coenen, Barbara Kaulbarsch and Sybille Krafft. Wolfratshausen: Bürger fürs BADEHAUS.

2012. with Hans Sauer. “Zwischen Kräuterheilkunde und linguistischen Strukturen: Das Wörterbuch der altenglischen Pflanzennamen – Dictionary of Old English Plant Names (DOEPN)“. Akademie Aktuell 01/2012: 46-47 [online: <www.badw.de/ aktuell/akademie _aktuell/>].

2011. “A Glimpse at Anglo-Saxon Biosystematics: The Voice of the Plant Names”. More Than Words: English Lexicography and Lexicology Past and Present. Essays Presented to Hans Sauer on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, Part I. Eds. Renate Bauer and Ulrike Krischke. Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang, 81-102.

2009. “On the Semantics of the Old English Compound Plant Names: Motivations and Associations”. Old Names - New Growth. Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium of the ASPNS (Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey), 6th – 10th June 2007, University of Graz, Austria, and Related Essays. Eds. Peter Bierbaumer and Helmut W. Klug. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang. 211-278.

2009. with Hans Sauer. “The Dictionary of Old English Plant Names (DOEPN), or: The Graz – Munich Dictionary Project”. Old Names – New Growth. Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium of the ASPNS (Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey), 6th – 10th June 2007, University of Graz, Austria, and Related Essays. Eds. Peter Bierbaumer and Helmut W. Klug, Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang. 145-180.

2008. with Peter Bierbaumer, Hans Sauer, Helmut Klug. “Old English Plant Names Go Cyber: The Graz - Munich Dictionary Project”. ...Un Tuo Serto di Fiori in Man Recando: Scritti in Onore di Maria Amalia D'Aronco. Eds. Silvana Serafin and Patrizia Lendinara, 2 vols., Udine: Forum. 2: 43-62.

2004. with Hans Sauer. “Die altenglischen Pflanzennamen aus linguistischer und lexikographischer Sicht.” Sudhoffs Archiv 88/2: 175-209.

Rezensionen

2020 “Rhona Alcorn, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los and Benjamin Molineaux (eds.). 2019. Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, xvii + 274 pp., 42 figures, 33 tables, £ 80.00.” in Anglia 138 (1): 166-170.

2018. “Ivor Timmis. 2018. Historical Spoken Language Research: Corpus Perspectives. Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics. Abingdon: Routledge” in Anglia 137 (2): 351-56.

2015. “Francisco Alonso Almeida, 2014, A Middle English Medical Remedy Book. Edited from Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 185. Middle English Texts, 50. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter” in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 63: 347-52.

2012. “Mary Dockray-Miller, 2009, Saints Edith and Æthelthryth: Princesses, Miracle Workers, and their Late Medieval Audience. The Wilton Chronicle and the Wilton Life of St Æthelthryth. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, 25. Turnhout: Brepols.” in Deutsches Archiv 68/1, 238.

2012. “Heinrich Tiefenbach, 2010, Altsächsisches Handwörterbuch. A Concise Old Saxon Dictionary, Berlin u.a.: de Gruyter.” Deutsches Archiv 68/1, 172-173.

2012. “Maren Clegg Hyer & Gale R. Owen-Crocker, 2011, The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World. Exeter: University of Exeter Press.” Anglia 4/2012, 554-557.

2012. “Helmut Birkhan, 2012, Pflanzen im Mittelalter. Eine Kulturgeschichte. Wien: Böhlau.” H-Soz-u-Kult, Berlin. 14.11.2012, online: <http://hsozkult.geschichte. hu-berlin.de/index.asp>.