Staff Profile
Dr Carol Fehringer
Senior Lecturer in German, Dutch and Linguistics
- Address: School of Modern Languages,
Old Library Building (Room 6.25),
缅北禁地,
缅北禁地 upon Tyne,
NE1 7RU
Office hours
Mondays 1-3pm, Thursdays 11-12.
Background
Carol Fehringer studied Modern Languages at the University of Manchester before going on to take a Masters course in General Linguistics, followed by a PhD in Germanic Linguistics. She was awarded her PhD in 1993 from the University of Manchester, after having spent a year researching at the Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Munster in Germany (funded by a D.A.A.D. scholarship).
Roles and Responsibilities
- Senior Tutor for the School of Modern Languages
- Student Mentor Co-ordinator
Areas of expertise
- Morphology in Germanic languages
- Morphosyntactic variation
Qualifications
- BA Modern Languages.
- Master of Linguistics.
- PhD in Linguistics (Title: On the nature and place of morphology: analogical umlaut in German dialects).
- Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
Languages
- English
- German
- Dutch
SCOPUS:
ResearchGate:
Undergraduate Teaching
SML1019 Introduction to Linguistics
GER1071 Level B German Language (Grammar workshops)
GER2031 Beginners' Dutch
GER4004 Intermediate Dutch
GER4015 Comparative History of German and English
GER4099 Dissertation (German linguistics)
Research Interests
Morphology (German, Dutch and English).
Morphosyntactic variation in German, English, Dutch
Other Expertise
Dr Fehringer has written two pedagogical grammars: a context-based grammar of German and a reference grammar of Dutch.
She has also collaborated on a psycholinguistics project with Dr Christina Fry on the relation between working memory and various aspects of language production in bilingual speakers (English/German).
Postgraduate Supervision
Dr Fehringer is willing to supervise postgraduate students in the following areas:
German and/or Dutch morphology, morphosyntax, variation.
Esteem Indicators
Dr Fehringer has acted as a reviewer for Arnold, Routledge and Cambridge University Press. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the journal 'Dutch Crossing', and on the Advisory Board of the 'Journal of Germanic Linguistics'. In addition, she is a member of the Association of Low Countries Studies and is the Secretary of their Executive Committee.
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Articles
- Fehringer C. . English World Wide 2022, 43(3).
- Fehringer C, Cornips L. . Journal of Germanic Linguistics 2019, 31(4), 323-362.
- Fehringer C. . Nederlandse Taalkunde 2017, 22(3), 359-387.
- Fehringer C, Corrigan KP. . English World-Wide 2015, 36(2), 198-227.
- Fehringer C, Corrigan KP. . English Language and Linguistics 2015, 19(Special Issue 2), 355-381.
- Fehringer C, Corrigan KP. . English Today 2015, 31(2), 38-50.
- Fehringer C. . Language Sciences 2012, 34(1), 65-75.
- Fehringer C. . Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik 2011, 39(1), 90-112.
- Fehringer C. . Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 2009, 76(3), 263-279.
- Fehringer C. . Journal of Germanic Linguistics 2009, 21(2), 149-165.
- Fehringer C, Fry C. . Language Sciences 2007, 29(4), 497-511.
- Fehringer C. . Journal of Germanic Linguistics 2004, 16(4), 285-329.
- Fehringer C. . Journal of Germanic Linguistics 2003, 15(4), 297-324.
- Borjars, Kersti, and Carol Chapman. Agreement and pro-drop in some dialects of English. Linguistics 1998, 36, 71-98.
- Carol Chapman. Review of Christopher Beedham 'German Linguistics: An Introduction'. Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics 1996.
- Carol Chapman. Anomalies in the strong verb paradigms of two West Central German dialects. Zeitschrift fuer Dialektologie und Linguistik 1996, 63(1), 49-57.
- Chapman, Carol. Perceptual salience and analogical change: evidence from vowel lengthening in modern Swiss German dialects. Journal of Linguistics 1995, 31, 1-13.
- Carol Chapman. A diachronic argument against the Split Morphology Hypothesis: the case of analogical umlaut in German dialects. Transactions of the Philological Society 1994, 92, 25-39.
- Carol Chapman. Ueberlaenge in North Saxon Low German: evidence for the metrical foot. Zeitschrift fuer Dialektologie und Linguistik 1993, 60, 129-157.
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Authored Books
- Fehringer C. . London: Routledge, 2020.
- Fehringer C. . London: Routledge, 2014.
- Briel H, Fehringer C. . Bern: Lang, 2005.
- Fehringer C. . London: Arnold, 2002.
- Fehringer C. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Fehringer C. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Book Chapters
- Fehringer C. . In: Booij, G.E., van Marle, J, ed. Yearbook of Morphology. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 2003, pp.249-272.
- Carol Chapman. A subject-verb agreement hierarchy: evidence from analogical change in modern English dialects. In: Hogg, Richard M.; and Linda van Bergen, ed. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory: Historical Linguistics 1995. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1998, pp.35-44.
- Carol Chapman. Recursivity in the inflectional morphology of English and German dialects. In: Hickey R.; and S. Puppel, ed. Festschrift in Honour of Jacek Fisiak's 60th Birthday. The Hague: Mouton, 1997, pp.1372-1377.
- Borjars, Kersti, Vincent, Nigel, and Carol Chapman. Paradigms, periphrases and pronominal inflection: a feature-based account. In: Booij, Geert E.; and Jaap van Marle, ed. Yearbook of Morphology 1996. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1997, pp.155-181.
- Carol Chapman. Diminutive plural infixation and the 'West Franconian' problem. In: Fisiak, Jacek, ed. Linguistic Reconstruction and Typology. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997, pp.73-88.
- Carol Chapman. Perceptual salience and affix order: noun plurals as input to word formation. In: Booij, Geert E.; and Jaap van Marle, ed. Yearbook of Morphology 1995. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1996, pp.175-184.
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Review
- Fehringer C, Fry C. . Folia Linguistica 2007, 41(1-2), 37-72.