Douglas Biber
Douglas Biber is Regents’ Professor of English (Applied Linguistics) at Northern Arizona University. His research efforts have focused on corpus linguistics, English grammar, and register variation (in English and cross-linguistic; synchronic and diachronic).
His publications include three books published by Cambridge University
Press (Variation Across Speech and Writing, 1988; Dimensions of Register Variation: A Crosslinguistic Comparison, 1995; and Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use, 1998, with Susan Conrad and Randi Reppen) and most recently the co-authored
Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (1999). douglas.biber@nau.edu
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen is Professor of English Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Her research interests include language use in interaction, prosody and conversation, and clause combining in spoken discourse. Among her major publications are English Speech Rhythm: Form and Function
in Everyday Verbal Interaction (Benjamins, 1993); Language in Time: The Rhythm and Tempo of Spoken Interaction (co-authored with Peter Auer and Frank Müller; Oxford University Press, 1999); Prosody in Conversation: Interactional Studies (co-edited with
Margret Selting; Cambridge University Press, 1996); Cause,Condition, Concession, Contrast:
Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives (co-edited with Bernd Kortmann; Mouton,2000); and Studies in Interactional Linguistics (co-edited with Margret Selting; Benjamins,
in press). Elizabeth.Couper@uni-konstanz.de
