Anne Breitbarth

I am Associate Professor of Historical Linguistics at the German section of the Linguistics Department at Ghent University. My scholarly interests range from historical and diachronic linguistics, particularly morphosyntactic variation and change including change in progress, to formal and corpus linguistics.

Bio

I obtained a PhD in Linguistics from Tilburg University (NL) in 2005 with a dissertation on the character, rise and fall of the afinite construction (finite auxiliary ellipsis) in Early New High German. I joined Ghent University as a postdoc in 2010. In 2013 I became assistant professor there, and in 2018, associate professor. From 2006 to 2009, I worked as a Research Associate on the AHRC funded project The development of negation in the languages of Europe at the University of Cambridge. One of my interests within that project was the development of negation in the history of Low German. My book summarising this research was published with OUP in 2014. Besides, two volumes have come out of that project: the first, "Case studies", came out with OUP in 2013, the second volume, "Patterns and processes" in March 2020.