Peter Petré
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E-Mail: melitta.cocan@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
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Montag bis Donnerstag, 9:30–16:30 Uhr
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Prof. Dr. Peter Petré
Englisches Seminar
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
79085 Freiburg i. Br
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Peter Petré is professor of English linguistics at the University of Freiburg. He holds a PhD (2010) from KU Leuven, and previously held positions as associate professor at the Université de Lille (2014-2015), and assistant (2015-2020), then associate (2020-2024) and full (2024 -2026) professor at the University of Antwerp. Combining linguistics, history, and cognitive science with data-oriented methodologies, his research focuses on the grammar-pragmatics interface, on how grammar evolves within individual cognition and how the community grammar emerges out of individual interactions. Between 2015-2021 he led the ERC project Mind-Bending Grammars, which investigated syntactic behaviour and change across the lifespan, and co-developed the large-scale corpus Early Modern Multiloquent Authors (EMMA). Next to numerous journal publications he authored Constructions and Environments: Copular, Passive, and Related Constructions in Old and Middle English (2014, Oxford UP), and has co-edited various volumes, including Context, Intent and Variation in Grammaticalization (2023, De Gruyter, with Hendrik De Smet and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi).
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Since 2026 Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Department of English,
University of Freiburg
2024 – 2026 Full Research Professor,
University of Antwerp
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1. Petré, Peter 2025. Developments in the passive construction. In Joan Beal (ed.), New Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume III: Transmission, Change and Ideology, 360–390. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Fonteyn, Lauren & Peter Petré. 2022. On the probability and direction of morphosyntactic lifespan change. Language Variation and Change 34(1). 79–105. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394522000011
3. Petré, Peter & Lynn Anthonissen. 2020. Individuality in complex systems: A constructionist approach. In Peter Petré & Lynn Anthonissen (eds.), Constructionist approaches to individuality in language, special issue of Cognitive Linguistics 31(2). https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2019-0033
4. Petré, Peter, & Freek Van de Velde. 2018. The real-time dynamics of the individual and the community in grammaticalization. Language 94(4). 867–901. https://doi.org/10.1353/LAN.2018.0056
5. Petré, Peter. 2017. The extravagant progressive. An experimental corpus study on the history of emphatic [BE Ving]. (Cognitive approaches to the history of English). Special issue of English Language and Linguistics 21(2). 227-250.
6. Petré, Peter. 2014. Constructions and environments: Copular, Passive and related Constructions in Old and Middle English (Oxford Studies in the History of English 4). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199373390.001.0001