Meike Paland

Dr. Meike Paland is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the Faculty of Philosophy, Leibniz Universität Hannover, where she has served since 2012. She holds a PhD in English Linguistics with expertise in historical language evolution.

Her academic credentials include:

• Magister Artium (2004) from Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, thesis: "A Comparative Case Study in Contact-Induced Change: Irish English Relativization vs. Scottish English Relativization"
• PhD (2012) from Leibniz Universität Hannover, dissertation: "The Recentness Progressive and Directive want – Studies in Emerging Constructions in the English TMA System"

Her research centers on diachronic English linguistics, specializing in grammaticalization processes, tense-aspect morphology, and sociolinguistic variation. She employs corpus-based methodologies to analyze syntactic change across Old/Middle English to contemporary usage, with particular attention to gendered language patterns and verb phrase evolution.

She teaches core linguistics courses including Introduction to Linguistics, History of English, Grammaticalization, Tense & Aspect, Sociolinguistics, and Old/Middle English.