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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).

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:

SML1019 Introduction to Linguistics

GER1071 Level B German Language (Grammar Workshops)

GER2031 Dutch I

GER4004 Dutch II (resting 2026/27)

GER4015 Comparative History of German and English

GER4086 Level D German for Professional and Academic Purposes

Dr Fehringer has published research articles in the following areas:

Morphology (German, Dutch).

Morphosyntactic variation (English, Dutch)

Psycholinguistics (specifically working memory and bilingual language production, German-English), in collaboration with Dr Christina Fry.

She has also written two pedagogical grammars: a context-based grammar of German (Routledge) and a reference grammar of Dutch (Cambridge University Press).

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Review

  • Fehringer C, Fry C. . Folia Linguistica 2007, 41(1-2), 37-72.