Dr. des. Julian Mader

Research interests:

•  language variation and change
•  corpus linguistics
•  historical morphosyntax
•  historical orthography
•  Quaker Plain Speech

Further activities:

Conference co-organiser:

• XXIII. Studientag Englisches Mittelalter, 2023
• 10th Conference of the Historical Sociolinguistics Networks (Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics), 2021

Co-editor:

• SREL: Student Research in English Linguistics

Editorial assistant:

• Advances in Historical Linguistics (AHL)
• Anglia: Journal of English Philology, 2023–2024

Webmaster:

• Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN)

Academic CV:

• 2025: doctoral examination, LMU Munich (doctoral subject: English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature)
• Since October 2023: junior lecturer in English linguistics and medieval literature, LMU Munich (chair Prof. Ursula Lenker)
• 2023–2024: junior lecturer in English linguistics, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (chair Prof. Thomas Hoffmann)
• 2020–2023: junior lecturer in English linguistics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (junior research group “Flexible Writers in Language History” (Dr. Markus Schiegg), chair Prof. Mechthild Habermann)
• 2020: Lehrbeauftragter in English linguistics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Prof. Judith Huber)
• 2014–2020: studied English linguistics and literature, physics, and pedagogy at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
  – State Examination (1. Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien)
  – Master of Education (M.Ed.)

Publications:

• In preparation. Apostrophes in Late Modern English nominal possessives: New evidence 'from below' based on patient letters.
• Accepted. [with Christine Elsweiler and Judith Huber]. The role of morphosyntactic simplification and dialect contact in the loss of thou V-st. English Language and Linguistics.
• 2025. Plain speech and the Quaker pronoun of address in nineteenth-century England. In Samantha M. Litty & Nils Langer (eds.), Language ideology, policy, and practice: Focus on minoritized languages past and present, 229–253. Oxford: Peter Lang.

Selected conference papers:

• "Revisiting the possessive apostrophe in Late Modern English: A variationist study based on patient letters." FJUEL 2025, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 10 October 2025.
• "Towards a history of long-s in Late Modern English personal letters: A case study from the Mary Hamilton Papers." 14th Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference (HiSoN2025), Bristol University, 21–23 May 2025 [with Christine Wallis].
• "CoPaDocs-UK: A new data source for the study of Late Modern English 'from below'." Language history 'from below': Data sources and (digital) approaches, Université de Lausanne, 6 February 2025.
• "The biggest thief + lier that walked + wont: Restrictive subject relativisation with personal heads in 19th and early 20th-century English." 15th Summer School in Historical Sociolinguistics (Pecha Kucha), Amrum, 26 July 2023.

• "Long-s in English personal letters from the 19th and early 20th centuries." 12th Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference (HiSoN 2023), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1 June 2023.

• "Variation and change in the Quaker 2nd-person pronoun (1850–1900)." 11th Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference (HiSoN 2022), Universidad de Murcia, 3 June 2022.

• "'Quaker Speak' in 19th-century patient letters from the York Retreat." NARNiHS Research Incubator at KFLC, University of Kentucky, 22 April 2022.

• "Thou promised it to me one 1st day: Plain speech in 19th-century Quaker correspondence." Atelier des Interdisziplinären Zentrums für Dialekte und Sprachvariation, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 28 January 2022.

• "The role of dialect contact in the loss of thou V-st." ISLE 6, University of Eastern Finland, 4 June 2021 [with Christine Elsweiler and Judith Huber].

• "The role of inflexional economy in the loss of thou V-st." PGR/ECR Virtual Colloquium in Germanic Linguistics, University of Sheffield, 12 January 2021.

• "Loss of THOU in Standard English: Evidence from Early English correspondence." Atelier des Interdisziplinären Zentrums für Dialekte und Sprachvariation, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1 February 2019.

Classes taught:

• Introduction to Linguistics
• Introduction to Linguistics: English Phonetics and Phonology
• [Seminar] 19th-Century English
• [Seminar] Historical Sociolinguistics
• [Seminar] The Spelling of English: A Diachronic Perspective
• [Übung] Exploring Linguistic Variation in England: Past and Present
• [Übung] Introduction to Middle English
• [Übung] Introduction to Old English
• [Übung] Lektüre historischer Handschriften
• [Übung] The Language of Chaucer: Sex and Practical Jokes in the Miller’s Tale