Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
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Manfred Markus: personal data
Born in Hagen/Westfalia, Germany, on 15 February 1941, Austrian and German citizen, I was
chairholder for English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature at the U of Innsbruck from 1981 to
2009.
I graduated in English and German studies, philosophy and pedagogy at the U of Göttingen/Germany,
got my doctoral degree and "habilitation" for English at the U of Regensburg (1980), spent two terms
as a student at Reading U (1962) and was Visiting Prof. at the U of Massachusetts at Amherst,
Mass./USA (1974/5).
I started my career with the analysis of stylistics and narrative technique, particularly of Middle
English literature. But since the mid 1970s, I have, apart from occasional work in Middle English
literature, focussed on linguistics, above all historical English, phonology, contrastive and corpus
linguistics, as well as the creation of new corpora. In the 1990s, I compiled the Innsbruck Middle
English Prose Corpus and the Innsbruck Corpus of English Letters (1386-1698), both available on CD-
ROM).
I have been married to Ingrid, née Müller, since 1968 and have two children, Dr. Dirk Markus (born in
1971) and Ronald Markus (born in 1974). I live at Innsbruck, Austria.
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Major academic phases
2011-22 Director of projects EDD Online 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0, all supported by the Austrian Science Fund
(FWF)
2009- Professor emeritus
2006 Honoured by a festschrift entitled Corpora and the History of English, eds. Mair, Christian, and
Reinhard Heuberger. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
2006-2011 Director of project SPEED (= EDD Online 1.0), supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
2006-2008 Head of the English Department of the University of Innsbruck
1997 Guest professor at the University of Trento/Italy
1995-2000 shorter periods of teaching at the universities of Nottingham Trent/England, Paris XII and
Valencia/Spain
2000-2005 shorter periods of teaching at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, the University of
Dresden and the University of Turku/Finland.
1981-2009 Chairholder for English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature at the U of Innsbruck
1980 Habilitation U of Regensburg/Germany
1974/5 Visiting Prof. at the U of Massachusetts at Amherst/Mass., USA
1971 Dr. phil. English Department, U of Regensburg
1967 Staatsexamen in English and German Studies, Philosophy and Pedagogy, U
Göttingen/Germany
Overview of the following information
3 Editions of Series
21 Books
117 Articles and Book Chapters
12 Shorter Contributions
9 Contributions in Encyclopedias/Handbooks and Varia
57 Reviews
102 Guest Lectures and Speeches (Selection 1992-2018)
Editing of series
3. Markus, Manfred. Together with Holger Klein and Herbert Schendl: Co-editor (until
2012) of Austrian Studies in English (formerly Wiener Beiträge zur Philologie) (published
since 1994).
2. Markus, Manfred. General editor of the series ESP (English for Specific Purposes).
Essen: Verlag Blaue Eule (published from 1994 to 2001).
1. Markus, Manfred. Together with Christian Mair and Josef Wallmannsberger: Co-
editor of Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft: Anglistische Reihe. Innsbruck:
Institut für Anglistik (published from 1988 to 1999).
https://eddonline-proj.uibk.ac.at/edd/download/eddonline_guide.pdf (accessed 20
March 2020) (online publication).
19. Markus, Manfred, together with Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Herbert Schendl,
eds. 2012. Transfer in English. Austrian Studies in English 100. Wien: Braumüller
Verlag.
18. Markus, Manfred, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson (eds.).
2012. Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A Multi-dimensional Approach.
Studies in Corpus Linguistics 50. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
17. Markus, Manfred, Clive Upton and Reinhard Heuberger (eds). 2010. Joseph
Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary and Beyond: Studies in Late Modern English
Dialectology. Frankfurt am Main etc.: Peter Lang.
16. Markus, Manfred, and Uwe Böker, eds. 2004. Of Remembraunce the Keye:
Medieval Literature and its Impact through the Ages. Festschrift for Karl-Heinz Göller on
the Occasion of his 80th Birthday, 13.5.2004. Frankfurt/M. etc.: Peter Lang (=Britannia
11).
15. Markus, Manfred and Kurt-Michael Pätzold. 2001. Englische Literaturwissenschaft.
English Literature. Deutsch + Englisch, German + English. 6000 Words Thematically
Arranged. ESP 4. Essen: Blaue Eule.
14. Markus, Manfred. 1999. Manual of ICAMET Innsbruck Computer Archive of Machine-
Readable English Texts. Anglistische Reihe 7. Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur
Kulturwissenschaft.
13. Markus, Manfred and Kurt-Michael Pätzold. 1999. Linguistik. Linguistics. Deutsch +
Englisch, German + English: 5000 Words Thematically Arranged. Essen: Blaue Eule.
12. Markus, Manfred. 1995. Conference English - Konferenzdeutsch. 4000 Words
Thematically Arranged. ESP 2. Essen: Blaue Eule.
11. Hardwick, Benjamin and Manfred Markus. 1994. Bauen und Architektur. Building
and Architecture. A Study Book of the Main Words within Their Fields. ESP 1. Essen:
Blaue Eule.
10. Mair, Christian and Manfred Markus, eds. 1992. New Departures in Contrastive
Linguistics. Proceedings of the Conference Held at the Leopold-Franzens-University of
Innsbruck, Austria, 10-12 May 1991. 2 vols. Anglistische Reihe, 5/6. Innsbruck:
Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft.
9. Markus, Manfred. 1990. Mittelenglisches Studienbuch. UTB Große Reihe. Tübingen:
Francke.
8. Böker, Uwe, Manfred Markus and Rainer Schöwerling, eds. 1989. The Living Middle
Ages. Studies in Mediaeval English Literature and Its Tradition. A Festschrift for Karl Heinz
Göller. Stuttgart: Belser.
7. Markus, Manfred, ed. 1988. Historical English. On the Occasion of Karl Brunner's
100th Birthday. Anglistische Reihe 1. Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur
Kulturwissenschaft.
6. Markus, Manfred and Josef Wallmannsberger. 1987. Contrastive Linguistics English-
German: a Bibliography. Frankfurt et al.: Lang.
5. Markus, Manfred. 1985. Point of View im Erzähltext: Eine angewandte Typologie am
Beispiel der frühen amerikanischen Short Story, insbesondere Poes und Hawthornes.
Sonderheft 60. Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft.
4. Markus, Manfred. 1977. Tempus und Aspekt: Zur Funktion von Präsens, Präteritum
und Perfekt im Englischen und Deutschen. München: Fink.
3. Markus, Manfred, ed. and transl. 1974. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Sir Gawain
und der Grüne Ritter. Stuttgart: Reclam (3. Auflage 1997. Stuttgart: Reclam).
2. Markus, Manfred. Mitarbeit an K.H. Göller. 1971. Romance and Novel. Nürnberg,
Regensburg: Carl Verlag.
1. Markus, Manfred. 1971. Moderne Erzählperspektive in den Werken des Gawain-
Autors. Nürnberg, Regensburg: Carl Verlag (= Diss.; Neuauflage 1987. Frankfurt/M.,
Bern, New York: Lang).
Shorter contributions
12. Markus, Manfred. 2000. "Unserm Uwe." Kurzbeitrag zur Festschrift für Uwe Böker.
Regensburg: Verlag Ulrich Martzinek: 70-72.
11. Markus, Manfred. 2000. "Foreword" in Monolingual Dictionaries for Foreign Learners
of English: A Constructive Evaluation of the State-of-the-Art Reference Works in Book
Form and on CD-ROM. Reinhard Heuberger. Wien: Braumüller.
10. Markus, Manfred. 1999. "ICAMET - Innsbruck Computer Archive of Machine-
Readable English Texts." ICAME Journal. Computers in English Linguistics 23: 178-179.
9. Markus, Manfred. 1996. "ICAMET - Innsbruck Computer Archive of Middle English
Texts." ICAME Journal. Computers in English Linguistics 20: 123-124.
8. Markus, Manfred. 1995. "ICAMET - Innsbruck Computer Archive of Middle English
Texts." ICAME Journal. Computers in English Linguistics 19: 150.
7. Markus, Manfred. 1993. "Workshop Computerlinguistik, Innsbruck, 22. Januar 1993."
Mitteilungen des Verbandes deutscher Anglisten. Ed. Rüdiger Ahrends. Heidelberg:
Winter: 67-69.
6. Markus, Manfred. 1991. Summary of Manfred Markus. Mittelenglisches Studienbuch.
Tübingen: Francke: 1990. English and American Studies in German. A Supplement to
Anglia. Tübingen: Niemeyer: 11-13.
5. Markus, Manfred. 1991. "Die Rolle der Internationalität am Institut für Anglistik
(Innsbruck)." Österreichische Hochschulzeitung 5: 8.
4. Markus, Manfred. 1991. Tagungsbericht "New Departures in Contrastive
Linguistics/Neue Ansätze in der kontrastiven Linguistik. Internationale Konferenz v. 10.
bis 12.5.1991 in Innsbruck." Mitteilungen des Verbandes deutscher Anglisten 2: 60-62.
3. Markus, Manfred. 1990. Summary of The Living Middle Ages. A Festschrift for Karl
Heinz Göller. Eds. Uwe Böker, Manfred Markus and Rainer Schöwerling. Stuttgart:
Belser: 1989. English and American Studies in German 1989. A Supplement to Anglia.
Tübingen: Niemeyer: 40-41.
2. Markus, Manfred. 1988. Summary of English-German Contrastive Linguistics. A
Bibliography. Eds. Manfred Markus and Josef Wallmannsberger. English and American
Studies in German 1987. Summaries of Theses and Monographs. A Supplement to
Anglia. Tübingen: Niemeyer: 31.
1. Markus, Manfred. 1980. Short biographical article on Saul Bellow in Lexikon der
Weltliteratur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ed. Manfred Brauneck. Frankfurt/M.
Reviews
57. Manfred Markus. 2018. Review of Monika Wegmann. 2017. Language in Space: The
Cartographic Representation of Dialects. Travaux de Linguistique et de Philologie.
Strasbourg: Éditions de Linguistique et de Philologie. Rev. in Anglia 136 (3): 530-537.
56. Markus, Manfred. 2010. Review of Ekkehard König, Volker Gast. Understanding
English-German Contrasts. ESVbasics. Grundlagen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik 29.
2., neu bearbeitete Auflage. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2009. Anglia 127. 508-510.
55. Markus, Manfred. 2010. Review of Bells Chiming from the Past. Cultural and
Linguistic Studies on Early English. Eds. Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel and Begona Crespo
García. Costerus New Series 174. Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2007. Anglia 127.
117-119.
54. Markus, Manfred. 2010. Review of Mark Kaunisto. Variation and Change in the
Lexicon: A Corpus-based Analysis of Adjectives in English Ending in -ic and -ical.
Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics 63. Amsterdam/New York:
Rodopi, 2007. Anglia 127. 320-323.
53. Markus, Manfred. 2008. Review of Sabine Fiedler. English Phraseology: A
Coursebook. Narr Studienbücher. Tübingen: Narr, 2007. Anglia 126. 402-404.
52. Markus, Manfred. 2008. Review of Adrian Pablé. The Construction of Period Dialect.
The Language of Arthur Miller's The Crucible and Its Sources. Fokus. Linguistisch-
Philologische Studien 32. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007. Anglia 126. 125-
127.
51. Markus, Manfred. 2007. Review of Werner Hüllen. Kleine Geschichte des
Fremdsprachenlernens. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag. Anglia 125. 109-111.
50. Markus, Manfred. 2007. Review of Jonathan Culpeper. History of English. 2nd ed.
Language Workbooks. London: Routledge. 2005. Anglia 125. 111-114.
49. Markus, Manfred. 2007. Review of Joan C. Beal. English in Modern Times. 1700-
1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2004. Anglistik 18. 154-157.
48. Markus. Manfred. 2007. Review of Corpus-Based Approaches to Sentence
Structures. Eds. Toshihiro Takagaki, Susumu Zaima, Yoichiro Tsuruga, Francesco
Moreno Fernández and Yuji Kawaguchi. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins
Bublishing Company. Anglia 124. 608-611.
47. Markus, Manfred. 2006. Review of Donka Minkova. Alliteration and Sound Change in
Early English. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 101. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press: 2003. Anglia. 494-498.
46. Markus, Manfred. 2006. Review of Yoko Iyeiri. Negative Constructions in Middle
English. Fukuoka: Kyushu UP. Anglia. 337-339.
45. Markus, Manfred. 2006. Review of Friedrich Ungerer. English Media Texts: Past and
Present. Pragmatics and Beyond. New Series 80. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John
Benjamins Publishing Company: 2000. Anglia 124: 320-323.
44. Markus, Manfred. 2006. Review of Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term
Systems. Eds. Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker. Amsterdam: Benjamins: 2003.
Anglia 123: 490-496.
43. Markus, Manfred. 2006. Review of Michiko Ogura. Verbs of Motion in Medieval
English. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer: 2002. Folia Linguistica Historica 26: 165-168.
42. Markus, Manfred. 2005. Review of Paul Hartle. Hunting the Letter: Middle English
Alliterative Verse and the Formulaic Theory. Frankfurt/M.: Lang: 1999. Anglia 123: 298-
300.
41. Markus, Manfred. 2005. Review of Insights into Late Modern English. Eds. Marina
Dossena and Charles Jones. Frankfurt/M.: Lang. Anglia 123: 118-121.
40. Markus, Manfred. 2005. Review of Gerhard Leitner. Australia's Many Voices. Vol. I:
Australian English - The National Language. Vol II: Ethnic Englishes, Indigenous and
Migrant Languages. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter: 2004. Anglia123: 690-692.
39. Markus, Manfred. 2004. Review of Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite
Predicates in the History of English. Eds. Laurel J. Brinton and Minoji Akimoto. Anglia
122: 491-494.
38. Markus, Manfred. 2004. Review of Variation Past and Present. VARIENG Studies on
English for Terttu Nevalainen. Eds. Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, Minna Nevala, Arja
Nurmi and Matti Rissanen. Helsinki: Société Néophilologique. Anglia 122: 676-679.
37. Markus, Manfred. 2004. Review of Roswitha Fischer. Tracing the History of English:
A Textbook for Students. With an Overview of English Literature up to 1790 by Daniela
Schwepper. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: 2003. Anglia 122: 286-289.
36. Markus, Manfred. 2003. Review of Laurie Bauer. Morphological Productivity.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2001. Anglia 121: 297-299.
35. Markus, Manfred. 2002. Review of Hedwig Gwosdek. A Checklist of English
Grammatical Manuscripts and Early Printed Grammars, c. 1400 – 1540. Münster: Nodus:
2000. Anglia 120: 272-274.
34. Markus, Manfred. 2002. Review of Kantik Gosh. The Wycliffite Heresy. Authority and
the Interpretation of Texts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2002. Anglia 120:
593-599.
33. Markus, Manfred. 2002. Review of Rita Copeland. Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and
Dissent in the Later Middle Ages: Lollardy and Ideas of Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press: 2001. Anglia 120: 593-599.
32. Markus, Manfred. 2002. Review of Anne Hudson. The Works of a Lollard Preacher.
The Sermon "Omnis Plantacio", The Tract "Fundamentum Aliud Nemo Potest Ponere",
and The Tract "De Oblacione Iugis Sacnficii". Oxford: OUP: 2001. Anglia 120: 593-599.
31. Markus, Manfred. 2002. Review of Stephan Gramley. The Vocabulary of World
English. London: Arnold: 2001. Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen 31: 262-264.
30. Markus, Manfred. 2001. Review of Elly van Gelderen. Verbal Agreement and the
Grammar Behind Its "Breakdown". Minimalist Feature Checking. Tübingen: Max
Niemeyer: 1997. Anglistik 12: 185-188.
29. Markus, Manfred. 2001. Review of A Reader in Early Modern English. Eds. Mats
Rydén, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and Merja Kytö. Frankfurt a. Main: Peter Lang:
1998. Anglia 119: 113-116.
28. Markus, Manfred. 2001. Review of Andreas Jucker. History of English and English
Historical Linguistics. Stuttgart, etc.: Ernst Klett Verlag: 2000. Neuphilologische
Mitteilungen 102: 373-374.
27. Markus, Manfred. 2001. Review of Manfred Görlach. English in Nineteenth-Century
England. An Introduction. Cambridge University Press: 1999. Anglia 119: 483-484.
26. Markus, Manfred. 2000. Review of Manfred Görlach. Aspects of the History of
English. Heidelberg: Winter: 1999. Anglia 118: 101-103.
25. Markus, Manfred. 2000. Review of Marianne Hundt. New Zealand English Grammar:
Fact or Fiction? A Corpus-Based Study in Morphosyntactic Variation. Amsterdam etc.:
Benjamins: 1998. Anglia 118: 425-427.
24. Markus, Manfred. 2000. Review of Carita Paradis. Degree Modifiers of Adjectives in
Spoken British English. Lund: Lund University Press: 1997. Anglia 118: 587-589.
23. Markus, Manfred. 1999. Review of Jens Bahns. Kollokationen als lexikographisches
Problem. Eine Analyse allgemeiner und spezieller Lernerwörterbücher des Englischen.
Tübingen: Max Niemeyer: 1996.
22. Review of Peter Andrew Howarth. Phraseology in English Academic Writing. Some
Implications for Language Learning and Dictionary Making. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer:
1996. Anglia 117: 564-567.
21. Markus, Manfred. 1999. Review of Manfred Görlach. Studies in Middle English
Saints' Legends. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter: 1998. Anglia 117: 282-285.
20. Markus, Manfred. 1997. Review of Ingrid Piller. American Automobile Names. Essen:
Blaue Eule: 1996. Anglia 115: 510-514.
19. Markus, Manfred. 1991. Review of Genres, Themes and Images in English
Literature. The J.A.W. Bennett Memorial Lectures, 1986. Eds. Piero Boitani and Anna
Torti. Tübingen: Narr Verlag: 1988. AAA 16: 116-117.
18. Markus, Manfred. 1991. Review of Ewald Standop. Abriß der englischen Metrik.
Tübingen: Francke: 1989. Anglia109: 160-163.
17. Markus, Manfred. 1988. Review of Hans-Jürgen Hacker. Zur Poetologie des
mittelalterlichen Dramas in England. Heidelberg: 1985. Archiv 225: 379-381.
16. Markus, Manfred. 1988. Review of John A. Hawkins. A Comparative Typology of
English and German Unifying the Contrasts. London, Sydney: Croom Helm. Anglia 106:
110-115.
15. Markus, Manfred. 1987. Review of Lynn Staley Johnson. The Voice of the Gawain-
Poet. Madison: 1984. Anglia 105: 193-198.
14. Markus, Manfred. 1987. Review of R. A. Shoaf. The Poem as Green Girdle.
Gainesville: 1984. Anglia 105: 481-485.
13. Markus, Manfred. 1986. Review of Robert Burchfield. The English Language. Oxford:
1985. AAA 11: 230-233.
12. Markus, Manfred. 1986. Review of David Burnley. A Guide to Chaucer's Language.
London: 1983. Anglia 104: 489-493.
11. Markus, Manfred. 1986. Review of G. H. Roscow. Syntax and Style in Chaucer's
Poetry. Cambridge: 1981. Archiv 223: 394-398.
10. Markus, Manfred. 1985. Review of Heidrun-Edda Weikert. Tom Stoppards Dramen.
Untersuchungen zu Sprache und Dialog. Tübingen: 1982. AAA 10: 317-322.
9. Markus, Manfred. 1984. Review of Dick Leith. A Social History of English. London:
1983. AAA 9: 212-216.
8. Markus, Manfred. 1984. Review of J.R. Burrow. Medieval Writers and Their Work.
Middle English Literature and Its Background 1100-1500. London: 1982. Anglia 102:
201-205.
7. Markus, Manfred. 1982. Review of Hans-Werner Ludwig. Arbeitsbuch Lyrikanalyse.
Tübingen: 1979. AAA7: 214-215.
6. Markus, Manfred. 1981. Review of Jack Zipes. Breaking the Magic Spell. Radical
Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. Austin: 1979. Kritikon Litterarum 10: 76-78.
5. Markus, Manfred. 1980. Review of W. A. Davenport. The Art of the Gawain-Poet.
London: 1978. Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 217: 418-
419.
4. Markus, Manfred. 1978. Review of Kenneth Dauber. Rediscovering Hawthorne.
Princeton, N.J.: 1977. Kritikon Litterarum 7: 205-207.
3. Markus, Manfred. 1977. Review of Die amerikanische Short Story der Gegenwart.
Interpretationen. Ed. Peter Freese. Berlin: 1976. Amerikastudien - American Studies 26:
340-343.
2. Markus, Manfred. 1975. Review of Robert Scholes. Structuralism in Literature: An
Introduction. New Haven, London: 1974. Kritikon Litterarum 4: 191-193.
1. Markus, Manfred. 1975. Review of Englische Literatur der Gegenwart in
Einzeldarstellungen. Ed. Horst W. Drescher. Stuttgart: 1970. Studienbuchkritik I. Eds.
Dieter Herms und Reinhart Meyer. Kronberg: 123-126.
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