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Christian mair was
Assistant and, subsequently, Associate Professor in the English Department of
the University of Innsbruck, Austria, before being appointed to a Chair in
English Linguistics at the University of Freiburg in Germany in 1990. He has
been involved in the compilation of several linguistic corpora (among them
F-LOB and Frown and – currently in progress – a corpus of Caribbean English as
part of the International Corpus of English and an extension to the ARCHER
corpus). His research over the past two decades has focussed on the
corpus-based description of modern English grammar and regional variation and
ongoing change in standard Englishes world-wide and resulted in the publication
of several monographs (among them, with CUP, Infinitival clauses in English:
a study of syntax in discourse, 1990, and Twentieth-century English: history, variation, and standardization,
2006) and more than 60 contributions to scholarly journals and edited works. In
addition he has produced popular introductions to the field of English
linguistics – e.g. Englisch für Anglisten (1995) and a revised version of Ernst
Leisi's classic Das heutige Englisch (8th edition, 1999). He
has held guest professorships at the Universities of Massachusetts at Amherst,
Santiago de Compostela and Zurich and, since February 2006, has been a member
of the "Wissenschaftsrat," an advisory body to the German Federal
Government and state governments.
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