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Dr Anna Saller

Research Assistant at the Chair of German Linguistics

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Room PT 3.2.23
Phone (+49) 941 943-3481


Office hours during the lecture period:
Tuesday 13-14 h and by appointment


Office hours during the lecture-free period:
by appointment by e-mail

Academic career

 

02/2024
Completion of dissertation on the topic: "Periphrastic tun in extraterritorial varieties of German. Comparison of forms and functions of the tun periphrase in German language minorities in Australia, Texas, Namibia, Romania and Russia" (defended in February 2024, awarded the SLK faculty research prize)

since 07/2019
Research Assistant at the Chair of German Linguistics at the University of Regensburg; teaching stays as part of ERASMUS+ at the University of Oulu (Finland, 05/2022), at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (Czech Republic, 04/2024) and at Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic, 05/2025 and 12/2025)

08/2018-05/2019
Teaching Assistant at the University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA, Degree of the Certificate in College Teaching (Graduate Teacher Programme)

07/2018
First State Examination in German Philology for Teaching at Secondary Schools

01/2018
B.A. German Philology & English Linguistics

09/2017-10/2017
Lecturer for German as a foreign language (intensive language course) at the Center for Language and Communication at the University of Regensburg

03/2017
Degree in supplementary studies in German as a foreign language

08/2014-06/2018
Student assistant at the Chair of German Linguistics, University of Regensburg

06/2014-09/2016
Student assistant at the Chair of English linguistics, University of Regensburg

10/2012-07/2018
Studies in German language and literature, English/American studies and German as a foreign language at the University of Regensburg

Research & Activities

 

ORCID: 0009-0000-0055-1839 (external link, opens in a new window)

Research Interests
Linguistic variation and language contact
Language change and grammaticalization
Syntax and morphosyntax
Diachronic linguistics

Current
Syntax of the older Modern High German (~1650 to 1800)
Verb phrases in Germanic languages in comparison

Memberships
Member of the IGDD(International Society for Dialectology of German (external link, opens in a new window))
Member of the GGSG(Society for the History of German Language and Literature (external link, opens in a new window))
Member of the professional association LinguisticA (external link, opens in a new window) (board member since 02/2026)
Member of the SIDG(International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics (external link, opens in a new window))

Reviewer activity
for the journal Linguistics (external link, opens in a new window) (2025)

Co-section moderation
together with Silvia Dal Negro, of the section "Minority Languages and Multilingualism" at the 8th IGDD Congress "Dialects in Urban Areas" (external link, opens in a new window) at the Humboldt University of Berlin (18-20 September 2025)

Conference (co-)organisation
of the international conference"Comparative Punctuation Worldwide (external link, opens in a new window)" (22.09. to 24.09.2023), University of Regensburg, together with Paul Rössler and Peter Besl (University of Regensburg)

Conference (co-)organisation
of the interdisciplinary online conference"Der Erste Weltkrieg: Erinnerungskulturen in Deutschland und Australien - The First World War: Cultures of Remembrance in Germany and Australia (external link, opens in a new window)" (09.12. to 11.12.2021), together with Silvan Kufner and Thomas Petraschka (University of Regensburg) and Christiane Weller and Andreas Dorrer (Monash University Melbourne)

Colloquium (co-)organisation
Planning and organisation of the colloquia of the Network (German) Language Minority Studies (external link, opens in a new window) (2021-2022), together with Siegwalt Lindenfelser, Lena Stückler, Sebastian Franz, Maike Rocker and Lena Aristarkhova-Schmidtkunz

Publications

 

Monograph

Essays
with peer review

without peer review

  • (2023): "Erkläransätze zu Unterschieden in der Verbreitung der tun-Periphrase in extraterritorial varieties of German." In: Lasch, Alexander, Kerstin Roth & Dominik Hetjens (eds.): Historische (Morpho-)Syntax des Deutschen (= Jahrbuch für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte 14). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 180-195.
  • (2020): "Cohesion formation in oral explanation sequences of university teaching." In: Thim-Mabrey, Christiane & Paul Rössler (eds.): Verständliches Erklären und Instruieren: Linguistics studies on examples of media, professional, official and operational communication. Regensburg(DOI: 10.5283/epub. 43718), also in print, 35-57.
  • (2019): "Oral Explanations in University Teaching: The Role of Projector Constructions in Spoken German." Colorado Research in Linguistics Vol. 24. https://scholar.colorado.edu/cril/vol24/iss1/4

Co-editions

Review

  • (2024): Franz, Sebastian (2021): Multilingualism and identity. Die alpindeutsche Siedlung Sappada / Pladen / Plodn (= Supplement to the Journal of Dialectology and Linguistics 186). Stuttgart: Steiner. 284 S. In: Sociolinguistica 38 (2024). https://doi. org/10.1515/soci-2023-0029

Lectures

 

10/2025:
"Multilingualism in the Acts of the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg",
17. Annual Conference of the Society for German Language and Literature History (GGSG) (external link, opens in a new window), University of Hamburg.

04/2024:
"German in Europe and the World",
Goethe Centre Budweis (external link, opens in a new window) (CZ).

10/2023:
"The tun-periphrase in extraterritorial varieties of German - a comparative approach",
German Abroad 5 (external link, opens in a new window), KU Eichstätt | LMU Munich.

09/2022:
"The distribution of the tun-periphrase in extraterritorial varieties of German",
14. Annual Conference of the Society for German Language and Literature History (GGSG) (external link, opens in a new window), Dresden.

07/2022:
"The tun-periphrase in Barossa German (Australia): Diachronic development into a tense-aspect marker on the verge of language death?",
7. Conference of the International Society for Dialectology of German (IGDD) (external link, opens in a new window), Salzburg.

05/2022:
"The influence of intralinguistic and extralinguistic factors on the tun-periphrase in extraterritorial varieties of German",
international Finnish Conference of Germanists (external link, opens in a new window) 2022 at the University of Oulu, Finland.

12/2021:
"Language use in public speeches commemorating World War One: Germany and Australia compared",
interdisciplinary conference"The First World War: Cultures of Remembrance in Germany and Australia (external link, opens in a new window)",
University of Regensburg (as part of a co-operation with Monash University Melbourne, Australia).

11/2021:
"The Development of the tun-Periphrase in Barossa German: Between temporality and aspectuality",
27. LIPP Symposium "Language and Migration" (external link, opens in a new window), LMU Munich.

06/2021:
"Eine sprachinselvergleichende Untersuchung zum Einfluss von Vitalität und (De-)Standardisierung in extraterritorial Varietäten des Deutschen anhand der tun-Periphrase",
Conference "Standardisierung und (Re-)Vitalisierung von kleinen Sprachen - Standardization and (re)vitalization of small languages" (external link, opens in a new window), University of Augsburg.

02/2021:
"Periphrastic tun in Australian German: A past tense habitual marker?",
Workshop "Encoding aspectuality in Germanic languages - empirical and theoretical approaches" (AG 05) of the 43rd DGfS conference (external link, opens in a new window), University of Freiburg. i. Br.

Teaching

 

Summer term 2026
Descriptive grammar for student teachers
Introductory exercise in language history
Older Modern High German (Seminar)

Winter semester 2025/26
Descriptive grammar for teacher training students
Introductory exercise in language history
Syntax diachronic (seminar)
Diatopic, diastratic and diaphasic variation (seminar)

Charles University Prague, CZ (12/2025):
Causal and temporal subordinate clauses in German
Language management through linguistic purism: On the stigmatisation of the tun periphrasis

Summer term 2025
Descriptive grammar for bachelor students
Descriptive grammar for teacher training students
Introductory exercise in language history
Sociolinguistics (seminar)

Charles University Prague, CZ (04/2025):
Mode and modality in German
The noun diachronically: cases in German and English
German minorities and their linguistic varieties

Winter term 2024/25
Introductory exercise in language history
Sociolinguistics (seminar)

Summer term 2024
Introductory exercise in language history
Language of subcultures (seminar)

South Bohemian University of Budweis, CZ (04/2024):
German minorities worldwide

Winter term 2023/24
Introductory exercise in language history
Introductory exercise in contemporary language

Summer term 2023
Introductory exercise in language history

Winter term 2022/23
Morphology and syntax diachronic (exercise)

Summer term 2022
Language as a mirror of society change (exercise)

University of Oulu, FI (05/2022):
German in the world
Language and Thought: Metaphors and Metonymy

Winter term 2021/22
Morphological and syntactic change (exercise)

Summer term 2021
Semantics and pragmatics change (exercise)

Winter semester 2020/21
Introductory exercise in contemporary language

Summer term 2020
Morphology of the German language history (exercise)
Introductory exercise in contemporary language

Winter semester 2019/20
Language change (exercise)

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