Sarah Schwarz

Sarah Schwarz serves as a Senior Lecturer in English at Uppsala University's Department of Nordic Languages, working through the Language Workshop (Språkverkstaden). Her responsibilities include supervising students in academic English and teaching evening courses on oral presentation skills for international students.

Her academic credentials comprise:

• Bachelor's degree in Linguistics
• TESOL certification (Teacher of English as a Foreign Language)
• Doctorate in English Linguistics

Dr. Schwarz's research centers on English language development and language ideology, with specialized expertise in:

• Passive voice constructions (be-passive, get-passive, prepositional passive)
• Grammaticalization processes in American English
• Corpus-based analysis of spoken vs. written language variation
• Diachronic syntax-semantics interfaces
• Sociolinguistic dimensions of grammatical change

Analysis of her 2013-2020 publications reveals consistent methodological focus on corpus linguistics, utilizing resources like COHA, TIME Magazine Corpus, and Soap Opera Corpus. Her work demonstrates how passive constructions evolve across genres and time periods, challenging prescriptive norms through empirical evidence of actual usage patterns.

At the Language Workshop, Schwarz provides academic language support without mention of research grants or scientific awards in available materials.

She remains actively engaged with Språkverkstaden, which delivers essential language services to Uppsala University students.