Stefan Dollinger

  Stefan Dollinger is an Austrian-Canadian linguist, Associate Professor in English Linguistics at the University of British Columbia, Department of English Language and Literatures, with a secondary affiliation at the Department of Linguistics. Raised in Attnang-Puchheim, Upper Austria, he attended a high school for IT Engineering near Linz, Upper Austria (HTL Leonding). After a year in sociology, one in psychology and some time away from school, he matriculated in English and German languages (teacher's degree) at Vienna University. Graduating in 2001 with an M.A. and B.Ed., after a year at the University of Toronto, he became, under Arthur Mettinger, director of the University of Vienna's newly founded Sprachenzentrum.

In 2002, Dollinger became WiMAUS (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in Ausbildung, today called "Assistent in training") under the historical linguist and code-switching researcher Herbert Schendl at the Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. In 2006, he received a Ph.D. in English Linguistics from that department under Herbert Schendl and Nikolaus Ritt, with external examiner, sociolinguist J. K. Chambers (University of Toronto). In 2005/06, he worked at UBC Vancouver with a grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, in 2006-09 as Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow. In 2009, Dollinger became Assistant Professor of English at the UBC Department of English, promotion to Associate Professor in 2014. He was guest professor of Canadian Studies at Kiel University, Germany, in 2012. In 2015 he accepted a Chair and Full Professorship in English Linguistics at the University of Gothenburg Sweden and returned in 2017 full time to UBC. At UBC, Dollinger is also Director of the Canadian English Lab at the Department of English at UBC, the unit producing the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles and associated member of the Department of Linguistics.

Awards

Recipient of the 2008 ASCINA Young Researchers' Award, a 10,000 Euro prize bestowed by the Austrian Ministry of Education and Science for this 2008 monograph and curated by ASCINA, Austrian Scholars and Scientists in North America.

Projects

In 2006, Dollinger was appointed chief editor of a new edition of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, which, in March 2017, was released to the public in open access.

Digital dictionaries & tools

Dollinger, Stefan (chief editor) and Margery Fee (associate editor). 2017. DCHP-2: The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, Second Edition. With the assistance of Baillie Ford, Alexandra Gaylie and Gabrielle Lim. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia. http://dchp.ca/dchp2

Dollinger, Stefan (editor-in-chief), Laurel J. Brinton and Margery Fee (eds.). 2013. DCHP-1 Online: A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles Online. Based on Avis et al. (1967). http://dchp.ca/dchp1.

Dollinger, Stefan (editor-in-chief), Laurel Brinton and Margery Fee (eds.) 2006–2016. The Bank of Canadian English. Online database of Canadian texts, 1505 – 2016. 2.7 million words of historical Canadiana

Monographs

New-Dialect Formation in Canada: Evidence from the English Modal Auxiliaries]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2008.

The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectolgoy: History, Theory, Practice]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, Dec. 2015.

In progress. The Making of Canadian English

In progress. Pluricentricity: differences, parallels and distortions in the Germanic languages

Edited volumes

Tracing English Through Time: Explorations in Language Variation], with J. Hüttner, G. Kaltenböck, U. Smith, and U. Lutzky. Festschrift for Herbert Schendl on the occasion of his 65th birthday.

Autonomy and Heterogeneity in Canadian English], in World Englishes, vol. 31, ed. with Sandra Clarke, 2012.

Articles

See ubc.academia.edu/StefanDollinger for a nearly complete list of articles.