July 2025
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Visiting Professor University of Oregon, Eugene (LSA Linguistic Institute 2025)
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June/July 2019
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Visiting Professor University of California, Davis (LSA Linguistic Institute 2019)
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April - September 2017
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Visiting Leibniz Professor Research Academy Leipzig, University of Leipzig
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July 2015
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Visiting Professor University of Chicago (LSA Linguistic Institute 2015)
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Dec 2014 -
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Board member of academic committee Institute for Corpora and Intercultural Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Aug 2013 - July 2017
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Visiting Chair (Linguistics and English Language) ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (housed at Lancaster University)
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June/July 2013
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Visiting Professor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (LSA Linguistic Institute 2013)
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13 Sept. 2011
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Named Honorary Liebig Professor Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (cf. here or here)
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July 2011
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Visiting Professor University of Colorado at Boulder (LSA Linguistic Institute 2011)
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July 2007
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Visiting Professor Stanford University (LSA Linguistic Institute 2007)
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Apr 2005 - Sept 2005
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Part-time lecturer of English linguistics Department for British and American Studies, University of Jena
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Oct 1998 - Mar 2005
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Part-time lecturer of English linguistics Department of English and American Studies, University of Hamburg
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Sept 1998 - Mar 1999
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Part-time lecturer of English Institute of Business Communication and Information Science, University of Southern Denmark at Sønderborg
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Note: this list contains translations of my textbooks as well as their different editions (because these involved comprehensive revisions and additions).
- Campus level: Representative to the Faculty Legislature (fall 2006 - spring 2009); member of the Steering Committee of the Ph.D. emphasis 'Cognitive Science' (Sept 2007 - Aug 2020); member of Graduate Council and member of the Graduate Mentorship Awards committee (Sept 2009 - Aug 2013); representative on the Faculty Undergraduate Network of the College of Letters and Science (11/2010 - 10/2013); member of the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Student Housing (Jan 2011 - Aug 2013); chair of an ad-hoc Academic Senate charges committee (spring-summer 2014); member of UCSB's Information Technology Council (spring 2016-fall 2022); member of the Data Science Initiative working group (fall 2017 -); faculty mentor of an assistant professor as part of the inaugural HFA Mentoring Program (Feb 2019 - fall 2019); Member of the Executive Committee of the Ph.D. emphasis 'Cognitive Science' (Sept 2020 -); Member of the Campus Elections Commission (Winter quarter 2020); Member of the Campus Elections Commission (Winter quarter 2021); member of the Campus Elections Commission (Fall quarter 2022 - Winter quarter 2023); member of the Campus Elections Commission (fall 2022 - winter 2023); member of Undergraduate Council (Sept 2023 -); member of the Campus Elections Commission (fall 2023 - winter 2023); member of the Finals Week Policy Working Group
- Departmental level: Graduate students admissions committee (winter 2005, 2006, 2009); faculty lab supervisor (winter 2005 - spring 2009); workload committee (May 2006 - May 2007); Undergraduate Advisor and member of Executive Committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (fall 2010 - spring 2016); chair of the Committee on Graduate Student Affairs (fall 2010 - spring 2011); member of the English for Multilingual Students advisory committee (Nov 2010 - spring 2016); member of the faculty search committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (fall 2011 - winter 2012); chair of the Undergraduate Studies Committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (Oct 2011 - Aug 2015); member of the faculty search committee of the Dept. of Spanish/Portuguese (fall 2013 - winter 2014); member of the faculty search committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (fall 2014 - winter 2015); member of the faculty search committee of the Dept. of Spanish/Portuguese (fall 2015 - winter 2016); member of the faculty search committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (fall 2017 - winter 2018); member of the faculty search committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (fall 2018 - winter 2019); member of the graduate studies committee (fall 2018 - 13 Feb 2019 (resigned in protest over chair's handling of the job search)); department parliamentarian (fall 2018 - 13 Feb 2019 (resigned in protest over chair's handling of the job search)); member of the linguistics lab committee (Sept 2019 - summer 2020); member of the Undergraduate Studies Committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (Sept 2020 - Sept 2021); department parliamentarian (Sept 2020 - summer 2021); chair of the faculty search committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (fall 2021 - winter 2022); member of the linguistics lab committee (Sept 2021 - summer 2022); member of the outreach committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (Sept 2022 - Sept 2023); member of the graduate studies committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (Sept 2022 - Sept 2023); department parliamentarian (Sept 2022 - summer 2024); department faculty mentor; member of the undergraduate studies committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (Sept 2023 -); director of the communications committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (Sept 2023 - )
Teaching and supervision
Graduate research seminars taught at UC Santa Barbara
- Ling 252-A/B: Cognitive Linguistics
- Ling 253A/B: Quantitative corpus linguistics and legal applications/interpretation
- Ling 257A/B: Psycholinguistics
Graduate courses taught at UC Santa Barbara
- Ling 201: Research methodology and statistics in linguistics
- Ling 202: Advanced research methods and statistics in linguistics
- Ling 204: Statistical methodology
- Ling 218: Corpus linguistics
- Ling 225: Semantics
Undergraduate and slash courses taught at UC Santa Barbara
- Ling 104: Statistical methods in linguistics
- Ling 105: Predictive modeling in linguistics
- Ling 110/210: Computational linguistics
- Ling 113: Introduction to semantics
- Ling 120: Corpus linguistics
- Ling 127: Psychology of language
- Ling 137/327: Introduction to first language acquisition
- Ling 194: Group studies in linguistics
Graduate courses (M.A. level) taught at JLU Gießen
- Introductory statistics for linguists with R
- Intermediate statistics for linguists with R
- Predictive modeling for linguists, social scientists, and digital humanists
- Regression modeling for linguists, social scientists, and digital humanists
Committee memberships and visiting scholars
- Member of doctoral dissertation committees: UCSB (26, chair or co-chair of 11), JLU Gießen (2, co-chair of 2), U of Florida (2 each), U of Alberta, U of Sussex, Humboldt Universitaet Berlin, U of Melbourne, U of Texas, U of Regensburg (1 each)
- Qualifying exam committees at UCSB: 19
- Publishable paper committees at UCSB: 17
- M.A. thesis committees: UCSB (16), U of Flensburg, U of Hamburg, Tel Aviv University, U of North Texas, JLU Gießen (1 each)
- Postdoctoral visiting scholars: 8, predoctoral visiting scholars: 9
Points of pride / highlights
- In 2011, I was awarded the Honorary Liebig Professorship of the Justus-Liebig University of Gießen (only the 2nd such position awarded) and later accepted the offer of a part-time position as a Full/W3 Professor.
- In 2017, I was awarded the Visiting Leibniz Professorship at the University of Leipzig, an honorary Full Professor/W3 position for a semester and "one of the highest honors [the] university bestows" that is used to bring outside research expertise to Leipzig for a semester.
- In 2013, I was appointed Visiting Chair (Linguistics and English Language) for five years in the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (housed at Lancaster University).
- Between 2007 and 2025, I was a Visiting Professor at the LSA Linguistic Institute six times.
- Since 2000, I have had more than 200 publications accepted and/or published. These publications exclude reprints, translations, and software, but they include
- two textbooks: (i) my statistics for linguistics textbook (which has now come out in three thoroughly revised and extended editions; it's the only statistics-for-linguists intro with more than one edition and it has been translated into Chinese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese) and (ii) my quantitative corpus linguistics textbook (which has now come out in two editions);
- four research-focused monographs and seven edited volumes with research articles;
- one 688-page practical handbook on corpus linguistics.
- According to Google Scholar, I have 22,994 citations. More importantly, in 3 of my 5 areas of research (English linguistics, quantitative linguistics, learner corpus research), I am the most cited scholar and in one of my former areas (Sprachwissenschaft) I still am, too; in area 4 (cognitive linguistics), I am the 3rd most cited scholar (the top 2 are in their 70s); in area 5 (corpus linguistics), I am number 6 but the youngest (3 of the top 5 are in their 70s).
- In 2020, I was chosen to write the first Methods Showcase article, a new category in the journal Language Learning (one of the two leading SLA journals). That paper was one of the most downloaded during its first 12 months of publication and is one of the top cited papers in 2021-2022 (Wiley certificates available upon request).
- On 01 January 2024, of the top 10 most-cited publications of the leading or the 2nd leading corpus linguistics journal (International Journal of Corpus Linguistics), I (co-)authored 3; two of those papers deal with a method that is now even imported into research on animal calls. I am also the author of the most-cited paper in the 3rd most leading corpus linguistics journal (Corpora). Since 2021, I have been among the top 10 10% most downloaded authors on SSRN multiple times (certificates available upon request).
- Since 2000, I have given more than 350 talks, invited talks, plenaries, panel discussions; more than 160 of those were invited.
- Since 2000, I have taught approximately 100 invited workshops on corpus linguistics and/or statistics (between 2 and 30 hours in length) all over the world.
- Since 2001, I have reviewed more than 570 papers, book proposals, sets of abstracts, personnel portfolios, and grant proposals. Note: this number includes two reviews for Germany's most prestigious research professorship, the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (coming with a 5m EUR 'start-up package') but they do not include
- the reviewing that was part of my editorial responsibilities at Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (I was in charge of an additional 300 submissions there), Cognitive Linguistics (I was in charge of an additional 120 submissions there), Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science, and Plos ONE;
- an additional 75 conference committee memberships, which involved additional abstract reviewing;
- reviewing as part of the editorial process for all volumes I have co-edited.
- Since 2005, I have been
- editor-in chief or co-editor-in-chief of Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory and the Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication;
- associate editor of Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistic Studies, and PlosONE;
- editorial board member of approximately two dozens journals and book series;
- in 2020, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory had had the second highest impact factor of all De Gruyter linguistics journals, surpassing Cognitive Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Linguistics, or the leading German-language journal Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft; in fact, in 2020, CLLT was the 15th most highly ranked journal of all 187 linguistics journal, surpassing many otherwise extremely well-established journals (including Language, Journal of Pragmatics, International Jorunal of Corpus Linguistics, Functions of Language, and many others).
- In 2020, after my stint as academic editor of Plos ONE, I was asked to adjudicate in a retraction/withdrawal publication case for PLOS ONE.
- In 2018, I was the second scholar (second only to Ronald Langacker) to be invited a second time to give 10 plenary talks in China's International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics.
- Since 2018, I have co-filed 6 amicus briefs with the Supreme Court or Appeals Courts on a variety of statutory or constitutional interpretation issues. Our 2021 amicus brief was cited in Justice Breyer's dissenting opinion.
- My interdisciplinary work with legal scholars is getting attention. The paper "The meaning of sex: Dynamic words, novel applications, and original public meaning" was published in one of the top law journals and co-authored with the maybe leading gay-rights scholar in the country. The paper "Unmasking textualism: linguistic misunderstanding in the Transit Mask Order Case and beyond" was sent to DOJ (by Prof. Steven Lubet (Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law) to help them draft their appeal again Judge Mizelle's (United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida) decision in Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc. v. Biden, striking down the Biden administration's Transit Mask Mandate. In addition, the paper was featured on Harvard Law's Bill of Health blog (Petrie-Flom is a well-known health/bioethics center at Harvard Law: ) and quoted in the Public Health and Public Health Law experts amicus brief to the 11th Circuit (22-11287, on appeal from the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida); this work was also featured prominently in an article on legal interpretation in The Verge and alluded to in this piece in PolitiFact.
- Since 2011, I have worked as a consultant or expert witness for journalists, various law firms, and advocate institutions (e.g. the ACLU Florida).
- In November 2014, Viola G. Miglio (Span/Port) and I ran the conference 'Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language 2014'; the unofficial Cognitive Linguistics Conference of the USA and Canada, a conference with 3 plenary talks, 78 paper presentations, 18 poster presentations, and 111 registered participants from all over the world.
- In 2000 and 2001, I won the the Presidents' Prize for the best paper by a post-doctoral untenured scholar of the Linguistic Society of Canada and the United States (LACUS).
- Many of my Ph.D. students or visiting scholars now have secured positions at universities (at Georgetown U, Michigan State U, George Mason U, U of Alberta, U of Florida, U of Ghent, U of Lille), others now work in industry.