Office Hours (Fall 2024): 5:00-6:30 Tuesdays and Thursdays, and by appt.

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

Participant in Plenary Roundtable at the fourth meeting of the KULI Network (Kulturbezogene und kulturanalytische Linguistik) "Kulturlinguistik und Soziolinguistik: Wahlverwandschaft oder Teil eines Ganzen" (2-3 September 2024, Universität Zürich)

Plenary Speaker at the Opening Workshop and Reception of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) grant project Visibilizing Normative Regional Historical Multilingualism: Ideology, Policy, and Practice (ViNoRHM) (04 October 2023, Europa-Universität Flensburg).

Keynote Speaker at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS‑18) (24-26 August 2023, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave).

Visiting Researcher in the English Department, Faculty of Arts at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Fall Semester 2022 (17 September - 15 December 2022).

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Research Interests

• Historical sociolinguistics, particularly diachronic investigation of language normalization/standardization in language contact situations
• Annotation and markup of digital historical corpora for historical sociolinguistic research, and the use of statistical and visualization software and digital technologies to create new interfaces for the presentation, visualization, and interpretation of historical corpora
• Historical and contemporary sociolinguistics of Romance, Germanic, and Slavic contact zones
• Indigenous minority languages (current focus on Western and Central Europe)
• Language planning and linguistic legislation (current focus on Western and Central Europe)

Research affiliations

• Member of the SLICE (Standard Language Ideology in Contemporary Europe) research network at the Centre for Language Change in Real Time (LANCHART) at the University of Copenhagen (2020-present)
• Affiliate of the Angus McIntosh Centre (AMC) for Historical Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (2016-present)
• Regional Faculty Associate of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA (2008-present)

Courses taught (at U of Kentucky and elsewhere)

• Introduction to Linguistics I & II
• Introduction to Language Study
• The World of Language
• Nature of the English Language
• Language and Borders
• History of the English Language
• Historical Linguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Language Contact
• Corpus Linguistics
• Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics
• Historical Sociolinguistics
• Advanced Historical Linguistics
• The Germanic Languages: Comparative History and Contemporary Structure
• Ethnic, Linguistic, and Cultural Diversity in France
• Slavic, Romance, Germanic and Classical Languages in Space and Time
• Sociolinguistic Issues in Modern Russia and the States of the Former Soviet Union
• Sociolinguistics of Central and Eastern Europe
• Research Methods in Linguistics
• Research Seminar in Linguistic Theory and Typology
• Muster in Sprache / Sprache in Mustern: korpusbasierte Untersuchungen zu sprachlichen Patterns (Dresden)
• Social History of English [Družbena zgodovina angleščine] (Ljubljana)
• English Histotrical Grammar [Angleška historična slovnica] (Ljubljana)
• English Historical Linguistics - digital tools and methods [Angleško historično jezikoslovje] (Ljubljana)
• Laboratory in Linguistics - corpus lingusitics
• Advanced Laboratory in Linguistics - historical sociolinguistics
• Advanced Laboratory in Linguistics - corpus approaches to sociolinguistics

University of Kansas (http://www.ku.edu/) •• Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster (http://www.uni-muenster.de/) •• Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz (http://www.uni-mainz.de/) •• Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warsaw (http://www.uw.edu.pl/) •• Univerzita Komenského, Bratislava (http://www.uniba.sk/)

Research in Computing for Humanities

The Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH), a research unit of the University of Kentucky (UK), brings together faculty and students from engineering, computer science, and the humanities, arts, and social sciences for collaboration on research projects in the Digital Humanities. The RCH provides physical and computational infrastructure, technical support, and grant writing assistance to university faculty who wish to undertake humanities computing projects, and it encourages and supports interdisciplinary projects among individuals and groups from UK and around the world.

• If you are a scholar in the Humanities, Arts, or Social Sciences at the University of Kentucky and are interested in digital methods, models, tools, environments, visualization, and presentation...
• If you are a UK Computer Scientist or Engineer and seek to apply your models, programs, systems, and equipment to problems, data sets, and objects from cultural, historical, and social research...
• If you are interested in investigating the potential benefits of collaborative work using digital research tools and methods with humanities, arts, and social science data in your scholarly work...

...the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH) can provide assistance to help you realize these goals.

How to Find Us

The main research facilities (Projects Office and "Digital Research Incubator") of the RCH are located in rooms 3-51 and 3-52 of the William T. Young Library on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. The rooms are in Core 1, at the north end of the west side of the third floor of the library. See the Third Floor Map on the library's website (we're in the upper left corner).

Phone Numbers: Projects Office (Young Library): 859-257-9549 || Director's Office (Office Tower): 859-257-7101

E-Mail: Director's E-Mail: lauersdorf {at} uky {dot} edu

On the web: http://www.rch.uky.edu/

Linguistics Incubator for Collaborative Digital Research
   = LINCD ("linked") Research   ~   http://lincd.rch.uky.edu/

LINCD Research (also known simply as "LINCD") is a venue where students and professors work alongside each other on research questions in linguistics - sharing ideas, data, information, tools, and resources as they follow their own individual investigations or join together in research projects in a digital-based research environment.

The collaborative lab environment allows all participants to directly share their knowledge and experience in theories, methods, and practices in linguistic research, while at the same time benefiting from the knowledge and experience of the others in the group.

The digital research environment allows participants to experiment with the latest tools and best practices in data extraction, preparation, analysis, presentation, and visualization in linguistic inquiry.

The LINCD Research initiative currently offers several different "flavors" of research-oriented programming under the LINCD Research umbrella. Click on each for details:

:: LINCD Sessions :: LINCD Readings :: LINCD Open Labs :: LINCD Special ::

LINCD DETAILS

• initiated by Mark Richard Lauersdorf (originally to support work in corpus linguistics).
• open to linguistics faculty and graduate students and their collaborators (interested undergrads should contact Professor Lauersdorf).
• all linguistics research fields are welcome.
• sessions are in the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH).