Sabine Arndt-Lappe

Sabine Arndt-Lappe is a Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Trier, Germany. She previously held research positions at the Universities of Marburg, Siegen, and Düsseldorf. As a structural linguist, her work bridges empirical and theoretical approaches to morphology and phonology.

• Research Focus: Variation and productivity in English lexicon, formal and semantic aspects of word-formation, prosodic morphology, analogy-based and usage-based grammatical models, computational analogical modeling, and Optimality Theory.
• Projects: Leads the DFG-funded AdvAnTheMorph project (2025–2028) and co-leads the DFG-ANR ERSaF project (2022–2025). Spokesperson for the Trier Center for Language and Communication research group on Patterns/Musterhaftigkeit (2020–2023).

Publications span topics like name blending, stress assignment in English verbs, clipping mechanisms, affix rivalry, and cross-linguistic morphological analysis. Her work employs computational models (e.g., Naive Discriminative Learning) and corpus-based methodologies.

Editorial Contributions: Editor-in-Chief of Morphology (2022–present), former Editor of Journal of Linguistics (2017–2021), and editorial board member for multiple journals including English Language and Linguistics and Journal of Linguistics.

Teaching includes courses like LING 101: Introduction to Linguistic Studies, LING 801: Words in the Mind, and LING 804: Statistics for Linguists. She also mentors doctoral candidates and supervises software development for morphological research (e.g., M2E - Morph2Excel).