Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages
Raised Faculty Building
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA
United Kingdom
Simon Pickl specialises in language variation and change in German. He obtained his MA and PhD from the University of Augsburg, where he worked as a researcher in an interdisciplinary project on quantitative methods in dialectology and geolinguistics. He then took up a postdoctoral position at the University of Salzburg, where he worked on language geography and language history of German. From 2016 to 2017 he held a Senior Scientist position at the University of Innsbruck before returning to Salzburg in 2017. Since October 2017, he has been a Feodor Lynen Research Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation / Isaac Newton Trust) at the University of Cambridge, where he works primarily on grammatical change in the history of German using a corpus of sermons from the 9th to the 19th centuries.
- Language Variation and Change
- Historical Sociolinguistics
- Dialectology
- Geolinguistics
- Written Language
Pickl, Simon (2017): Neues zur Entwicklung der Negation im Mittelhochdeutschen. Grammatikalisierung und Variation in oberdeutschen Predigten. Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (PBB) 139/1, 1–46.
Pickl, Simon (2016). Fuzzy dialect areas and prototype theory: discovering latent patterns in geolinguistic variation. In: Côté, Marie-Hélène / Remco Knooihuizen / John Nerbonne (eds). The Future of Dialects. Selected Papers from Methods in Dialectology XV. Berlin: Language Science Press, 75–97.
Auer, Anita / Catharina Peersman / Simon Pickl / Gijsbert Rutten / Rik Vosters (2015). Historical sociolinguistics: the field and its future. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 1/1, 1–12.
Pickl, Simon / Aaron Spettl / Simon Pröll / Stephan Elspaß / Werner König / Volker Schmidt (2014). Linguistic Distances in Dialectometric Intensity Estimation. Journal of Linguistic Geography 2/1, 25–40.
Pickl, Simon (2013): Probabilistische Geolinguistik. Geostatistische Analysen lexikalischer Variation in Bayerisch-Schwaben. Stuttgart: Steiner.
Pickl, Simon (2013). Verdichtungen im sprachgeografischen Kontinuum. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 80/1, 1–35.
Pickl, Simon (2013). Lexical Meaning and Spatial Distribution. Evidence from Geostatistical Dialectometry. Literary and Linguistic Computing 28/1, 63–81.
Rumpf, Jonas / Simon Pickl / Stephan Elspaß / Werner König / Volker Schmidt (2010). Quantification and Statistical Analysis of Structural Similarities in Dialectological Area-Class Maps. Dialectologia et Geolinguistica 18, 73–98.
Pickl, Simon (2009): Das Kochbuch für Maria Annastasia Veitin. Kommentierte Edition einer Kochbuchhandschrift aus dem Jahr 1748. Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Rumpf, Jonas / Simon Pickl / Stephan Elspaß / Werner König / Volker Schmidt (2009). Structural Analysis of Dialect Maps Using Methods from Spatial Statistics. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 76/3, 280–308.
