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"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Name:	Anja  Wanner
Institution:	University of Wisconsin Madison
Email:	click here to access email
Homepage:	http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~awanner/
State and/or Country:	WI USA
Linguistic Field(s):	Linguistic Theories Syntax Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s):	English
Selected Publications:	Books: 1999-Verbklassifizierung im Englischen. Tuebingen: Max Niemeyer. 2001-Structural Aspects of Semantically Complex Verbs, co-edited with Nicole Dehe. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. 2009- Deconstructing the English Passive. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2010- Syntactic Variation and Genre, co-edited with Heidrun Dorgeloh. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Announced on LINGUIST :	Deconstructing the English Passive  Syntactic Variation and Genre
Reviewed on LINGUIST :	Syntactic Variation and Genre
Courses Taught:	The Structure of English Introduction to English Syntax Verbs and Meaning English Words: Grammar, Culture, Mind
Dissertation Abstract:	The Optimal Linking of Arguments
Reviewer of:	Language Description: Brinton (2000) (LL Issue 12.2821) Language Description: van Gelderen (2002) (LL Issue 14.456) Weeds in the Garden of Words (LL Issue 17.2395)
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