Lijun Li
Research Associate
Linguistics
Address
University of Hamburg
Faculty of Humanities
SLM II
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach #23
20146 Hamburg
Since summer term 2021, she is at the University of Kiel.
Education:
| from 04/2021 | PostDoc at Kiel University (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) |
| 04/2015 - 03/2021 | Research Associate Institute of English and American Studies Chair of English linguistics held by Prof. Dr. Peter Siemund Lecture: Survey of Language and Linguistics Seminars: Introduction to Linguistics, Contact Linguistics, Sociolinguistics |
| University of Hamburg PhD in English Linguistics Dissertation: Language Contact: A Historical Sociolinguistic Reconstruction of Colloquial Singapore English in Relation to its Chinese Substrates 1st Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Siemund 2nd Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Friedrich |
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| 2011-2014 | M.A. in Multilingual Educational Linguistics (M.A. MOTION: Mehrsprachigkeit und Bildung), Faculty of Education, at the University of Hamburg |
| 2007-2011 | B.A. English-Chinese Translation and Interpretation, at National Sun Yat-sen University, China; Second major: German Studies |
| 2010 | Exchange student, German studies at Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena |
Research Interest:
- Diachronic linguistics,
- Typology,
- Corpus linguistics,
- Language contact,
- Chinese substrates,
- World Englishes,
- Translation studies,
- Multilingualism
Publications:
Lijun Li & Siemund, Peter (2021). From phasal polarity expression to aspectual marker – grammaticalization of already in Asian and African varieties of English. In The Expression of Phasal Polarity in African Languages, R. Kramer (ed). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 515–544.
Siemund, Peter & Li, Ljun (2020). Multilingualism and Language Policy in Singapore. In Language Diversity in the Sinophone World – Historical Trajectories, Language Planning, and Multilingual Practices, H. Klöter & M. S. Saarela (eds). New York: Routledge, 205–228.
Siemund, Peter & Li, Lijun (2017). Towards a diachronic reconstruction of Colloquial Singapore English. In Negation and Contact. With a special Focus on Singapore English, D. Ziegeler & Z. Bao (eds). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 11–32.
Li, Lijun (2014). The use of 'already' in Singapore English in relation to the Chinese particle 'le' Masterarbeit. Universität Hamburg. July 14, 2014. link
Teaching:
| Wnter term 2019/ 20 | Seminars | 53-506 Einführung in die Linguistik des Englischen 53-507 Einführung in die Linguistik des Englischen 53-514 Variationist Sociolinguistics 53-515 Introduction to Language Contact |
| Summer term 2019 | Lecture | 53-502 Survey of Language and Linguistics |
| Seminars | 53-506 Einführung in die Linguistik des Englischen 53-507 Einführung in die Linguistik des Englischen 53-515 Introduction to Sociolinguistics |
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| Winter term 2018/ 19 | Seminars | 53-506 Einführung in die Linguistik des Englischen 53-507 Einführung in die Linguistik des Englischen 53-512 Language Variation and Change 53-513 Introduction to Language Contact |
| Summer term 2018 | Seminars | 53-506 Introduction to English Linguistics 53-509 Introduction to English Linguistics 53-517 Language Contact and Contact Linguistics 53-518 Language Variation and Change |
Conferences/ Presentations:
| 06/2021 | (accepted) “Towards a diachronic reconstruction of pragmatic particles in Colloquial Singapore English – A corpus-based study.” ISLE 6 (International Society for Linguistics of English), at the University of Eastern Finland, June 02-05, 2021 |
| 02/2021 | “Ages of pragmatic particles in Colloquial Singapore English – A corpus-based study.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation – Asia Pacific 6 at the National University of Singapore, February 17-20, 2021 |
| 06/2019 | “Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition: adverb and adverbial placement in English.” (Poster). L3 Workshop: Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use, at the University of Konstanz, Germany, June 07-08, 2019 (with K. Feindt, E. Lorenz, S. Rahbari, P. Siemund) |
| 03/2019 | “The use of already, also, ever and one in CSE in relation to their Chinese substrates” Current Trends in Linguistics (CuTLi) 2019, Hamburg, Germany, March 28-29, 2019. |
| 08/2018 | “Grammaticalization of phasal polarity expressions in Asian and African Varieties of English.” ICEHL10 (International Conference on English Historical Linguistics) 2018. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. August 27-31, 2018. |
| 07/2018 | “From Phasal Polarity to aspectual marker – the use of already in Asian varieties of English”. ISLE 5 (International Society for Linguistics of English) 2018 Conference. University College London/University of London, London, UK. July 17-21, 2018. |
| 03/2018 | “Linguistic age of pragmatic particles in Colloquial Singapore English” Current Trends in Linguistics (CuTLi 2018) Conference. Hamburg, Germany, March 23-24, 2018. |
| 02/2018 | “From Phasal Polarity Expression to aspectual marker: Grammaticalization of already in Colloquial Singapore English”. International Conference on the Expression of Phasal Polarity in sub-Saharan African languages. University of Hamburg. February 2-4, 2018. |
| 10/2017 | “Substratum influences or universals: Towards a diachronic reconstruction of already, also, ever and one in Colloquial Singapore English”. ISLE Summer School 2017 “Variation in World Englishes: Advanced issues in theory and methodology”. University of Regensburg, Germany, October 4-7, 2017. |
| 07/2017 | “Towards a diachronic reconstruction of Colloquial Singapore English”. IAWE 2017 (International Association of World Englishes 2017) Conference. Syracuse University, New York, USA. June30 - July 2, 2017.
· Finalist of Kachru’s Best Student Paper |
| 01/2017 | “The use of already and also in Colloquial Singapore English”. 1st Current Trends in Linguistics (CuTLi) 2017 Conference. Hamburg, Germany, January 21-22, 2017. |
| 10/2015 | “A diachronic study of the use of already, ever, also and one in Singapore English – based on the National Archives of Singapore”. Current Trends in English Linguistics Workshop. Hamburg, October 2015 |
Scholarships:
| 2019 | DFG (German Research Foundation) grant to conduct a sociolinguistic study in the greater area of Dubai/Sharjah in April 2019 (Language Attitudes and Repertoires in the Emirates); PIs: Prof. Dr. Peter Siemund (University of Hamburg), Dr. Jakob Leimgruber (University of Freiburg); Research associates: Kathrin Feindt, Lijun Li, Eliane Lorenz, Sharareh Rahbari |
| 04/2015-03/2018 | Doctoral scholarships of humanity at the University of Hamburg, Germany |
| 10/2012-07/2014 | Merit scholarship for international students at the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany |
| 09/2009-09/2010 | National Scholarship of China for students with excellent academic performance, awarded by the Ministry of Education of China, Beijing, China |
| 09/2008-06/2011 | First-class Scholarship for students with excellent examination performance at National Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China |
Memberships in Linguistic Associations:
- IAWE International Association for World Englishes
- ISLE International Society for the Linguistics of English