Special award

Doctoral students currently pursuing a PhD degree or who have just earned their degree are encouraged to submit an abstract related to their research in order to compete for the Best PhD presentation award honouring Dr. Alexander Kautzsch. For this award, students can submit proposals on any topic any of the topics suggested in the Call for Papers, even if it is not closely related to Dr. Kautzsch’s research interests.

Dr. Alexander Kautzsch (University of Regensburg) was a superb linguist. His research interests focused mainly on the origins of African-American English and L2 phonological acquisition. His most noted works include The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English: An Empirical Comparison of Early Sources, published by Mouton de Gruyter in 2002, and The Attainment of an English Accent: British and American Features in Advanced German Learners, published by Peter Lang in 2017. He also participated in the collaborative project English Pronunciation Teaching in Europe Survey – EPTiES. More recently, his research moved into new directions, for instance by developing a model of the evolution of English in both colonial and non-postcolonial contexts (with Sarah Buschfeld, published in World Englishes 2017) or with extensive work and corpus compilation on Namibian English.

Alex was a wonderful person, a dear friend, a friendly helpful colleague whose sense of humour cheered everyone. He will be missed.

More detailed information regarding his work can be found on https://www.uni-regensburg.de/language-literature-culture/english-linguistics/staff/kautzsch/publications/index.html