CV

    1975 - 1981

Study of English and German at Würzburg University, including a 1-year-stay in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1978/79

1981

Degrees: teacher's exam (high school) and M.A. in English and German

1981-1985

Assistant lecturer under Prof. Dr. Ewald Standop at Würzburg University

Ph.D. in English Philology, main subject English linguistics, minor subjects English literature, German literature and German linguistics. Topic: “The history of the research in English and American varieties, with special reference to lexicography”

1986 - 1991

Lecturer of English linguistics at Würzburg University,

Training in homeopathy and Chinese medicine

1991 - 1996

Assistant lecturer under Prof. Dr. Christian Mair at the University of Freiburg

1994 - 1995

Visiting professor at Portland State University, Department of Applied Linguistics, Oregon, USA

1996

Professorial thesis (‘Habilitation’). Topic: “Motivation, institutionalization and productivity of new words of the English language: a corpus-based study”

1996 - 1997

Stand-in as professor at the Department of English at RWTH Aachen

1997

Offered a chair at the University of Regensburg and Gh Kassel

since 1998

Professor at Regensburg University for English Linguistics