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1988-1994 |
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| I took a
five-year degree course in English,
French and Italian language and
literature at
Bochum, one of Germany’s best
post-war universities, where I passed
the First State Examination for teachers
(equivalent of MA) in 1994. The course
provided me with a thorough grounding in
the languages and cultures of Britain
and France. |
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| On a scholarship
awarded by the German Academic Exchange
Service (DAAD), I enjoyed a nine-month
period of study abroad at the University
of
Durham (England) in 1989/1990. A
guest lecture given there by the late
John Sinclair on the making of
dictionaries and a subsequent visit to COBUILD sparked my interest in computer
corpus linguistics, the practice of
which has given me ever deeper insight
into language. |
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