About
Nicolas Raths is a Researcher in English Linguistics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since October 2021. Previously, he served as a Research Assistant in two DFG-funded projects at Georg-August University Göttingen (2018–2021), focusing on quantifier interpretation in child language and past tense morphology in tense and modality. Earlier, he worked as a Student Assistant teaching English at Universidad Austral de Chile (2013–2014).
Education:
- Master of Arts in English Philology (Linguistics), Georg-August University Göttingen (2020)
- Bachelor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Universidad Austral de Chile (2015)
Teaching:
- Word Formation in English (Winter 2021/2022)
- Syntax (Summer 2022)
- History of the English Language (Winter 2022/2023, Summer 2023)
- From Theory to Practice (Summer 2023)
Research Focus: His doctoral dissertation, 'Variation and Change in English if-clauses: A corpus-based, cross-varietal study', supervised by Prof. Britta Mondorf, explores syntactic and semantic variation using corpus linguistics. He also analyzed clitic reduplication in a Chilean sociolect for his MA thesis. His work intersects corpus-based methodologies with syntactic theory and historical linguistics.
Affiliations & Projects: Active in interdisciplinary research on language processing and variation, contributing to projects like 'Interpretation and processing of quantifiers in structurally ambiguous sentences' and 'Past Tense Morphology in Tense and Modality'. He regularly collaborates with the REEL Day conference organizing team.
