Florian Haas

Florian Haas is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the Institute for English and American Studies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, where he has taught since 2009 across BA, MA, and teacher training programs. His research focuses on recent morphosyntactic changes in English, contrastive linguistics, typology, and usage-based construction grammar, with a notable Habilitation thesis on the history of human impersonal pronouns in English.

• Education: PhD in Linguistics (2008, Free University of Berlin, summa cum laude), MA in European Master's Degree in Linguistics (2002), MA in English Studies (2002).

His research interests span corpus-driven analysis of language change, cross-linguistic contrasts (particularly English-German), and cognitive approaches to grammar. His publications emphasize diachronic shifts in pronouns, genre-specific linguistic patterns, and constructionist analyses of syntax. He has supervised numerous student theses on topics like political framing, bilingualism, and sociolinguistic variation in English. Academic service includes roles as Erasmus coordinator, reviewer for journals like Journal of Pragmatics, and memberships in societies such as the Association for Linguistic Typology.