Remus Gergel

Remus Gergel received his doctorate in English linguistics from the University of Tübingen after studying English, mathematics and Romance languages. He subsequently had stays at UPenn, Göttingen and once more Tübingen, where he defended his habilitation and was later tenured. He held a full professorship at the University of Graz before accepting the chair of English Linguistics at Saarland University. His research focus includes cross-linguistic variation as well as language change in the areas of structure and meaning, having investigated e.g. issues of modality, degree constructions, and presuppositions.