About me
I am a junior fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. As an undergrad, I studied English Linguistics at Hamburg University. From there I went to Rice University, where I wrote a dissertation on Germanic future constructions. After a brief stay in Berkeley, I am now at the FRIAS. (In the picture above, my office is behind the third window from the right.) I am interested in Cognitive Linguistics, in particular its interfaces with corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, and diachronic linguistics. I'm currently writing my post-doctoral thesis, which has the working title Constructional Change in English.
Contact
Martin Hilpert
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
School of Language and Literature
Albertstr. 19
79104 Freiburg
Germany
2008 Junior Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
2007 Postdoc, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley (Framenet)
2007 PhD, Rice University, Dept. of Linguistics
2003 MA, Hamburg University, Germany, English Linguistics, Scandinavian Languages
(submitted a) Corpus-based approaches to constructional change.
(submitted b) Collostructional Analysis: Measuring associations between constructions and lexical elements. (handbook article)
(submitted c) With Stefan Th. Gries. Statistical Clustering techniques in historical English linguistics.
(submitted d) Studying many a noun in COHA. Diachronic collostructional analysis meets the noun phrase.
(submitted e) Was ist Konstruktionswandel?
(to appear a) Danish ville and English will: Two futures with a similar past, but a different present. Proceedings of the 22nd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
(to appear b) Chained Metonymies, In J. Newman and S.A. Rice (eds), Experimental and Empirical Methods. Stanford: CSLI.
(to appear c) The force dynamics of English complement clauses: A usage-based account. In K. Fischer and D. Glynn (eds.), Quantitative methods in cognitive semantics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
(to appear d) With Stefan Th. Gries. Modeling diachronic change in the third person singular: a multifactorial, verb- and author-specific exploratory approach. English Language and Linguistics 14/3
(to appear e) Grammaticalization in Germanic Languages In Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticatization. Oxford: OUP.
(to appear f) A cognitive linguistic perspective on counterfactuality. In M. Butter, D. Birke, and T. Köppe (eds.), Counterfactual thinking / counterfactual writing. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
(to appear g) Comparing Comparatives. A corpus-based study of comparative constructions in English and Swedish. In H. Boas (ed.), Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
(to appear h) Diachronic collostructional analysis. How to use it, and how to deal with confounding factors. In J. Robynson and K. Allan (eds.), Current Methods in Historical Semantics, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
2005a. A diachronic perspective on concessive constructions with just because, In Adam Makkai, William J. Sullivan, and Arle R. Lommel (eds), LACUS Forum XXXI: Interconnections. Houston: LACUS, 67-81.
2005b. From Causality to Concessivity: The Story of just because, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 11.1, Proceedings of the 28th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Philadelphia: PWPL, 85-99.
Reviews
2010. Review of The Diachronic Corpus of Present-Day Spoken English (2007) UCL Survey of English Usage. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 6/1, 105-124.
2008a. Book notice on F.J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibañez (ed.) (2005) Annual review of cognitive linguistics. Vol. 3. eLanguage.
2008b. Book notice on Nick Riemer (2005) The semantics of polysemy: Reading meaning in English and Warlpiri. eLanguage.
2008c. Book review of Ursula Lenker and Anneli Meurman-Solin (eds.) (2007) Connectives in the History of English. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.
2007a. Book review of Mirjam Fried and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.) (2004) Construction Grammar in Cross-Language Perspective. Studies in Language.
2007b. Book notice of Anna Vogel (2004) Swedish dimensional adjectives. Language. 83/3, 692-693.
2006a. Book review of Gregory D.S. Anderson (2006) Auxiliary verb constructions. cognitivelinguistics.org
2006b. Book review of Hans Lindquist and Christian Mair (eds.) (2004) Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English. Studies in Language 30/1, 225-229.
2006c. Book review of Adele E. Goldberg (2006) Constructions at work. The nature of generalization in language. cognitivelinguistics.org
2006d. Book review of Sabine Krämer (2006) Synchrone Analyse als Fenster zur Diachronie. Die Grammatikalisierung von Werden und Infinitiv. Linguist List.
2010. Panel organization: Converging evidence, conflicting evidence, and no evidence at all. On the combination of corpus linguistics with other methods. ICAME, Giessen, Germany.
2009. Workshop organization: FRIAS workshop on methodological and conceptual problems in diachronic corpus linguistics.
2009. Grant reviewing for the Academy of Finland.
2009. Workshop co-organization: FRIAS workshop series on Language and Space.
2009. Invited research stay at the Nordic Center of Excellence in Microcomparative Syntax (NORMS), Institut för Nordiska språk, University of Helsinki.
2008-present. Doctoral student supervision for Florent Perek.
2008. Board member of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (GCLA/DGKL)
2008. Workshop organization: FRIAS workshop on Cognitive Corpus Linguistics: current issues in theory and methodology, Freiburg, Germany.
2008 Abstract reviewing for GCLA 2008, ICCG 2008, and ICLC 2009.
2008 Member of the editorial board of Constructions and Frames, published by John Benjamins.
2006-present Reviews of book and article manuscripts and proposals for English Language and Linguistics, Folia Linguistica Historica, Linguistics, Oxford University Press, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, The Blackwell Language and Linguistics Compass, Mouton de Gruyter, and John Benjamins.
2006 Workshop organization (with Suzanne E. Kemmer): Constructions and
Grammaticalization at the 8th CSDL (Conceptual Structure, Discourse
and Language), San Diego, CA.
2005 Linguistic fieldwork on Pite-Saami in Arjeplog, Sweden. The research
was funded through the Foundation for Endangered Languages and the
Andrew Mellon Foundation.
2005-present Editing book reviews for cognitivelinguistics.org
2005-2006 Research assistant to Suzanne E. Kemmer.
October 2010. The life and death of '-ment'. DGKL 4, Bremen, Germany.
July 2010. How did concessive parentheticals emerge? UK-CLC 3, Hertfordshire, UK.
May 2010. The life and death of '-ment': A diachronic, multifactorial analysis on the basis of the OED. ICAME 31, Giessen, Germany.
February 2010. Workshop on 'Diachronic Construction grammar: Theoretical considerations and methodological applications'. Construction Grammar: New perspectives for the study of German and English, Kiel, Germany.
December 2009. On the notion of constructional change. FRIAS workshop on Methodological and conceptual problems in diachronic corpus linguistics.
September 2009. What can collocational change tell us about grammatical change? The development of aspectual ‘keep V-ing’. Grammar and corpora 3, Mannheim, Germany.
September 2009. The cognitive linguistics of counterfactuality. FRIAS conference on Counterfactual Thinking / Counterfactual Writing. Freiburg, Germany.
July 2009. Assessing frequency changes in multistage diachronic corpora: bottom-up visual methods to identify stages and trends. With Stefan Th. Gries. Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics (MMECL), Innsbruck, Austria.
July 2009. From interdental to alveolar in the third person singular: a multifactorial, verb- and author-specific exploratory approach. With Stefan Th. Gries. Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics (MMECL), Innsbruck, Austria.
March 2009. Settling for second best. Diachronic construction grammar with synchronic data. Meeting of the German Construction Grammar Network, Bremen.
February 2009. A quantitative approach to particles and language change: The case of Swedish nog. NORMS workshop on particles and language changem, University of Helsinki.
February 2009. Germanic future constructions and the diachronic study of collocates. Forskarseminarium Institut för Nordiska språk, University of Helsinki.
February 2009. Korpuslingvistik - hur gör man egentligen? (A practical introduction to corpus linguistics). Institut för Nordiska språk, University of Helsinki.
October 2008. Grammaticality judgment day. FRIAS workshop on Cognitive Corpus Linguistics: current issues in theory and methodology, Freiburg, Germany.
October 2008. Diachronic corpus linguistics - bridging the qualitative and the quantitative. Poster at HERA / 1st European Conference for Collaborative Humanities Research, Strasbourg, France.
October 2008. Constructions in time: Modeling linguistic variation with diachronic corpus data. FRIAS workshop on Constructions and Variation, Freiburg, Germany.
August 2008. The cognitive motivation behind mixed metaphors: Evidence from usage data. International conference on Language, Communication and Cognition, Brighton, UK.
July 2008. What can synchronic gradience tell us about reanalysis? The case of V1-conditionals in Swedish and German. New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4, Leuven, Belgium.
May 2008. The role of pragmatic accommodation of presuppositional structure in the diachronic emergence of pseudo-clefts. With Chris Koops. FRIAS workshop on Emergent Constructions, Freiburg, Germany.
March 2008. The co-evolution of syntactic and pragmatic complexity: diachronic and cross-linguistic aspects of pseudoclefts. With Chris Koops. Symposium on the genesis of syntactic complexity. Rice University, TX.
October 2007. Studying grammaticalization with diachronically-ordered corpus data: it's more than counting words. Berkeley Linguistics Colloquium.
July 2007. The English comparative: phonology and usage. Poster at the Workshop on Variation, Gradience and Frequency in Phonology, Stanford,CA.
February 2007. A recipe for analyzing vagueness. Rice Linguistics Society Meeting, Houston, TX.
January 2007. Dutch ‘gaan’ and English ‘going to’ - two futures going their separate ways. The 81st annual LSA meeting, Anaheim CA.
November 2006. Constructions and speech perception. The 8th CSDL (Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language), San Diego, CA.
November 2006. Collocates, constructions, and diachrony: The development of volition-based future constructions. The 8th CSDL (Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language), San Diego, CA.
July 2006. It's always worth crying. How knowledge of constructions affects phonetic processing. The 2nd conference on Language, Culture, and Mind, Paris, France.
June 2006. Collostructional analysis and diachrony: What can we learn from shifting collocational preferences? 1. Mini-Workshop Quantitative Korpuslinguistik, Universität Bremen, Germany.
June 2006. English will and Danish ville: Two futures with a similar past, but a different present. The 22nd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Aalborg, Denmark.
June 2006. Using collocates to investigate constructional semantics - A case study of obligation-based future constructions. The 1st Swedish Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference, Umeå, Sweden.
May 2006. The Force Dynamics of English Complement Clauses - A usage-based account. The 1st Postgraduate Conference in Cognitive Linguistics, Brighton, UK.
March 2006. A quantitative approach to complex verb constructions. With Chris Koops. The 11th Biennial Rice Linguistics Symposium: Intertheoretical Approaches to Complex Verb Constructions.
January 2006. Constructional Grammaticalization. With Suzanne E. Kemmer. Rice Linguistics Colloquium Series, Houston, TX.
January 2006. On Germanic obligation-based future markers The 80th annual LSA meeting, Albuquerque, NM.
January 2006. Change in collocational profiles as a process of grammaticalization. With Suzanne E. Kemmer. The 80th annual LSA meeting, Albuquerque, NM.
November 2005. Using MonoConc Pro for corpus-linguistic analyses. Rice Linguistics technology and professional development workshop, Houston, TX.
July 2005. Where did this future construction come from? The case of Swedish komma-att-V The 17th ICHL (International Conference of Historical Linguistics), Madison, WI.
July 2005. Constructional Grammaticalization in the English make-causative. With Suzanne E. Kemmer. The 17th ICHL (International Conference of Historical Linguistics), Madison, WI.
July 2005. A constructional approach to raising constructions. With Chris Koops. The 9th ICLC (International Cognitive Linguistics Conference), Seoul, Korea.
June 2005. Auxiliaries and quasi-verbs in colloquial Sinhala. Workshop on Sinhala Linguistics, Santa Barbara, CA.
November 2004. A usage-based approach to Swedish Future Modals. The 6th HDLS (High Desert Linguistic Society), Albuquerque, NM.
November 2004. Collostructional Analysis - Methods, Applications, New Developments. Rice Linguistics Colloquium Series, Houston, TX.
October 2004. Posture verb auxiliation. With Chris Koops. The 1st Rice-UT Austin Workshop on Language in Use, Houston, TX.
October 2004. Chaining of Metonymies: A corpus-based approach. The 7th CSDL (Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language), Edmonton, Canada.
July 2004. From Causality to Concessivity: The Story of just because. The 31st LACUS Forum, University of Illinois at Chicago.
July 2004. Constructional Polysemy in the English Split Infinitive. The third ICCG (International Conference on Construction Grammar), Marseille, France.
February 2004. From Causality to Concessivity: The Story of just because. The 28th PLC (Penn Linguistics Colloquium), University of Pennsylvania.
November 2003. Metonymies and Their Patterns: A Corpus-Based Approach to the Analysis of Metonymy. Rice Linguistics Colloquium Series, Houston, TX.
July 2003. Metonymies and their patterns: A corpus-based approach. The 8th ICLC (International Cognitive Linguistics Conference), Logroño, Spain.
July 2003. Posture verb auxiliation: contrasting English, Swedish, and German. With Chris Koops. The 8th ICLC (International Cognitive Linguistics Conference), Logroño, Spain.
2007-2008 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) postdoctoral fellowship
2007 John W. Gardner Award for Best Dissertation in the School of Humanities (Rice University).
2006-2007 Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughn fellowship for outstanding achievement and promise (Rice University)
2006 Summer research grant from the Dolores Mitchell Trust for dissertation research and conference travel
2005-2006 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) fellowship
2005 Research grant from the Foundation for Endangered Languages for the investigation of Pite-Saami, Northern Sweden
2005 Research grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation for the investigation of Pite-Saami, Northern Sweden
2005 Research grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation for participation in a Graduate Seminar on Language Policy
2004 Summer research grant from the Dolores Mitchell Trust for the compilation of a linguistic corpus of German
2004 LACUS presidential prize for ‘Best paper given by a pre-doctoral presenter’
2004 Conference travel grant, University of Alberta, Canada
2003-2007 Rice University Ph.D. fellowship, tuition waiver, conference travel grants
2000-2001 Erasmus stipend for exchange semester to Lund University, Sweden
2010 Instructor, Lecture series: Quantitative Linguistics, Universität Basel (upcoming winter term, together with Benedikt Szmrecsanyi)
2010 Instructor, Undergraduate seminar: Language and Society, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg (upcoming winter term)
2010 Instructor, Undergraduate seminar: Introduction to Old English, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg
2009 Instructor, Graduate seminar: Construction Grammar, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg
2009 Instructor, Graduate seminar: Quantitative Corpus Linguistics, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg
2009 Instructor, Graduate seminar: Grammaticalization, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg
2008 Instructor, Graduate seminar: Cognitive Semantics, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg
2008 Instructor, Graduate seminar: Research Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg
2007 Instructor, Introduction to Linguistics, Rice University
2007 Athlete Tutor, Rice University, Phonology, Introduction to Linguistics
2006 TA, Rice University TA workshop series certificate
2003-2006 TA, Rice University, Introduction to Linguistics, Semantics, Psychology of Language
2003 Instructor, Introduction to Construction Grammar, Hamburg University
1999-2003 TA, Hamburg University, Introduction to English Linguistics, Introduction to Scandinavian Languages and Literature
My students do cool stuff! Here are some projects from recent classes. The audio podcasts will stream online in browsers such as Chrome and Safari, if you don't see a player, try downloading the files (rightclick underlined titles).
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The Action-Sentence-Compatibility-Effect (ACE). By Leif-Malte Bock, Adrian Keller and Andrea Schäfer.
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Paul Hopper came to Freiburg a FRIAS external fellow, and he agreed to let us do an interview. Thanks again, Paul! The interview was conducted by Annebeth Demaeght and Jan Vanhove.
