Nikolaus Ritt#
| Membership Number: | 3665 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/home/staff-members/ritt |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2009 Full Professor of English Historical Linguistics at Vienna University
- 2004 - 2012 Vice-Dean of the Faculty for Philological and Cultural studies, Vienna University
- 2002 - 2005 Head of the English Department of Vienna University
- 2001 - 2009 Associate Professor, English Dept., University of Vienna
- 1994 - 2001 Assistant Professor (English Department, Vienna University)
- 1987 - 1988 Foreign Lecturer at the German Department of Durham University, GB
- 1985 - 1994 University Assistant (English Department, Vienna University)
Fields of Scholarship
- English linguistics
- History of English
- English Phonology
- English Morphology
- English Morphonology
- Middle English
- Early Modern English
- Linguistic theory
- Language as a historical system
- Language and identity
- Language transmission and evolution
- Memetics
- Complex adaptive systems and generalized Darwinism
- Connectionist competence modeling
- Language and cognition
- Evolutionary epistemology
- Constructivism
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Member of the Academia Europaea
- Figdor-Award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for Quantity adjustment: vowel lengthening and shortening in Early Middle English. Cambridge: University Press.
