Paradigms regained: Theoretical and empirical arguments for the reassessment of the notion of paradigm

Gabriele Diewald is professor of German linguistics at Leibniz Universität Hannover. She studied German and English at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and the University of Canterbury, Kent (1988). She received her PhD in German linguistics (1990) and her postdoctoral degree (Habilitation) in German linguistics (1998) at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her main areas of research are grammatical categories, verbal constructions, modal particles, gender-neutral language, and grammaticalization.

Katja Politt is a postdoc at Leibniz Universität Hannover, where she also completed her PhD (2021). She studied German and English linguistics (M.A.) and teacher training for German and English (M.Ed.) at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Her main areas of research are grammatical categories and paradigms, categorization, and verbal constructions.