Lieselotte Anderwald

Prof. Dr. Lieselotte Anderwald is a Full Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Kiel since 2008. Her academic journey includes an MA (1995) and PhD (1999) from Freie Universität Berlin and Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, followed by a Habilitation (2007) with Venia Legendi in English Philology.

• PhD: English Philology, German Linguistics, General Linguistics (University of Freiburg, 1999)
• Habilitation: English Philology (University of Freiburg, 2007)

Her research interests focus on prescriptive grammar writing, dialectology, and their impact on historical language use, particularly in 19th-century English. She investigates how prescriptive norms influenced dialect grammar and non-standard varieties, using corpus linguistics to analyze verb morphology, negation, passive constructions, and tense-aspect systems. Her work bridges sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and metalinguistic discourses, with a special emphasis on enregisterment processes and language ideologies.

Recent publications include a 2022 study on morphological Americanisms and a 2020 series analyzing the linguistic status of gotten in American English. Earlier works explore the GET-passive, progressive aspect, and dialect grammar principles. These articles span keywords like Historical Linguistics, Corpus Analysis, and Language Ideology, with sub-fields covering prescriptive influence, dialect history, and grammaticalization patterns.

She teaches courses on synchronic English linguistics, non-standard English, sociolinguistics, and language history, including specialized topics like dialect grammar and media-induced language change. She co-organized the Research Workshop: Talk about Talk and manages the CNG - Collection of Nineteenth-Century Grammars, integrating dialectology with enregisterment theory.