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dr. L.M. (Laura) Rupp

Telephone:+31 20 59 86423
Room nr:11a-29
E-mail:l.m.rupp@vu.nl
Unit:faculteit der letteren (taal en communicatie)
Position:UD Engelse Taalkunde

Ervaring [Professional experience]

UD Engelse Taalkunde [Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics]

Summary

Portefeuillehouder Onderwijs, Faculteitsbestuur Letteren [Portfolio holder for teaching, Faculty Board, Faculty of Arts]
Onderwijsdirecteur, Faculteit Letteren [Director of Education, Faculty of Arts]

Onderwijsresume

Opleiding [Education]

2011 Leergang Onderwijskundig Leiderschap, Centre for Excellence in Teaching, Universiteit Utrecht.
2010 Postgraduate Diploma in Children, Youth and Development, Institute of Social Studies, Den Haag.
1999 PhD in Linguistics, University of Essex, UK.

Prijzen en subsidies [Awards and grants]

2003. Onderwijsprijs [Teaching award] Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
2005. Fellowship in the UK-Netherlands Partnership Programme, NWO [Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research] and the British Council. Project: The meaning of an East Anglian dialect feature that emerged from English-Dutch language contact in the seventeenth century.
2000. British Academy small research grant. Project: The recycling and functional reallocation of an old northern English dialect feature by adolescents in the city of York.

Onderwijs [Teaching]

Bachelor

English Phonetics and Pronunciation [course description]
Language Change [course description]

Training Uitspraak van het Engels

Deze training wordt aangeboden door de VU Letteren BV Gryps. De eerste opdrachtgever was het Ministerie Van Defensie.

In 2010 werd een symposium Uitgesproken Engels op de VU gehouden. Beluister en bekijk een radiofragment, video (NOS Headlines) en krantenartikelen (NRC Handelsblad) (NRC Next) over het symposium.

Masterclass (voor aankomende studenten)

English accents and dialects [description] [assignment]

Onderzoek

Ik doe onderzoek op het gebied van Language Variation and Change (taalvariatie, taalverandering en taalgeschiedenis) en tweede taalverwerving.

Ik onderzoek hoe sprekers taal gebruiken om sociale identiteiten aan te nemen, en welke taalvormen zich daar het best voor te lenen. Ik werk hierbij samen met David Britain (Universiteit Bern), Sali Tagliamonte (University of Toronto) en Dora Edu-Buandoh (University of Cape Coast, Ghana). Ik onderzoek ook de sociale effecten van het leren van een tweede taal.

Publicaties

Refereed articles

Rupp, L. (2009). Definite Article Cycles. One-line publication Folia Linguistica Historica [link]
Rupp, L. (2008). The (socio)linguistic cycle of Definite Article Reduction. Folia Linguistica Historica 28: 215-250. [pdf]
Rupp, L. (2005). Constraints on non-standard -s in expletive there sentences: a generative-variationist perspective.
English Language and Linguistics 9: 225-288. [pdf]
In the same issue (p. 399-405) appeared a review of my book on imperatives by Chung-hye Han [pdf]
Rupp, L. and J.S. Page-Verhoeff (2005). Pragmatic and historical aspects of Definite Article Reduction in northern English dialects. English World-Wide 26: 325-346.
Felser, C. and L. Rupp (2001). Expletives as arguments: German existential sentences revisited. Linguistische Berichte 187: 289-324.[abstract].

Books

Rupp, L. and D. Britain (to appear). Concord variation: a generative-sociolinguistic perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Rupp, L. (2003). The syntax of imperatives in English and Germanic: word order variation in the Minimalist Program. Palgrave.

Book contributions and working papers

Rupp, L. (2007). 'Inverted' imperatives in English. Imperative clauses in generative syntax, van der Wurff, W. (ed.), Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [pdf]
Rupp, L. (forthcoming). Why (not) move? The view from imperatives in English and beyond. In Proceedings of the Motivating Movement Conference, Henry, A. (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rupp, L. (2006). The scope of the Northern Subject Rule. In Variation in linguistic theory and language acquisition. Proceedings of the 39th Linguistics Colloquium, M. Vliegen (ed.), Oxford: Lang.
Rupp, L. (2004). Motivating movement: form and function. In Words in their places, H. Aertsen, M. Hannay and R. Lyall (eds), Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit. 19-34. >[word]
Rupp, L. (1998). Subject position(s) in the English imperative. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 19, University of Essex. 1-36.
Felser, C. and L. Rupp (1997). A minimalist approach to existential constructions. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 15, University of Essex. 45-80.

Overige activiteiten

Ik ben vrijwilliger voor Save the Children en SOS Kinderdorpen.