Alexander Bergs
Alexander Thomas Bergs (born March 30, 1974) is a German linguist and professor of English linguistics at the University of Osnabrück. Career. Alexander Bergs studied English, German, chemistry, education and philosophy at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and general linguistics, English language and Scots at Edinburgh University. This was followed by his doctorate in 2002 on the subject of “Social Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics: Studies in Morphosyntactic Variation in the Paston Letters (1421–1503) ”, and four years later his habilitation in English linguistics with the title "The Expression of Futurity in Contemporary English: Form, Function, Development". Bergs has been  Professor of Linguistics at the University of Osnabrück since 2006. He was there from 2008 to 2010 and has been Dean of the Department of Linguistics and Literature since 2016. His research focuses include Language variation and change, construction grammar approaches to language analysis, language in context, the syntax-pragmatics interface and cognitive poetics. He also completed numerous teaching stays at the universities of Bonn, Santiago de Compostela, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Catania, Vigo, Thessaloniki, Athens and Dalian. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of "Linguistics Vanguard", along with Abby Cohn (Cornell) and Jeff Good (Buffalo).