Lars Hinrichs
Associate Professor — Ph.D., 2006, English Linguistics, University of Freiburg

Contact
- E-mail: TxE@utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-8755
- Office: PAR 219
- Office Hours: Friday 9-10 a.m. and by appointment
- Campus Mail Code: B5000
Interests
Sociolinguistics; anthropological linguistics; corpus linguistics, Pidgins and Creoles; computer-mediated communication.
Biography
Lars Hinrichs is a linguist interested in varieties of English. For his dissertation work at the University of Freiburg, he studied the use of English and Creole in online communication by Jamaicans. He has also researched syntactic differences between British and American written English from a statistical perspective. Since joining the UT English department in 2007, he has been directing the Texas English Project, which researches the different kinds of English spoken in Texas.
Courses
E 310D • Intro To Digital Studies
35810 • Fall 2021
Meets MWF 9:00AM-10:00AM GAR 2.128
QRWr
E 384K • Disciplinary Inquiries
36660 • Fall 2021
Meets MW 1:00PM-2:30PM CBA 4.342
E S316N • World Literature-Wb
80685 • Summer 2021
Meets MTWTHF 10:00AM-11:30AM
Internet; Synchronous
GCWr
HU
(also listed as C L S315)
E 321L • American English-Wb
36055 • Spring 2021
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM
Internet; Synchronous
CDIIWr
(also listed as LIN 321L)
E 310D • Intro To Digital Studies-Wb
34289 • Fall 2020
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM
Internet; Synchronous
QRWr
E 323L • English As A World Language-Wb
34880 • Fall 2020
Meets MW 8:30AM-10:00AM
Internet; Synchronous
GCIIQR
(also listed as LIN 323L)
E 323L • English As A World Language
34975 • Fall 2019
Meets MW 8:30AM-10:00AM PAR 306
GCIIQR
(also listed as LIN 323L)
E 364D • African American English
35635 • Spring 2019
Meets MW 10:00AM-11:30AM PAR 303
CDGCWr
UGS 303 • The Languages Of Pop Culture
62090-62105 • Spring 2019
Meets MW 9:00AM-10:00AM PAR 201
Wr
ID
E 323L • English As A World Language
35685 • Fall 2018
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM PAR 306
GC
(also listed as LIN 323L)
E 396L • Quantv Methods In Lang Sci
35350 • Spring 2018
Meets W 12:00PM-3:00PM CAL 419
(also listed as INF 385T, LIN 392)
UGS 303 • Language In The Media
62410-62425 • Spring 2018
Meets MW 9:00AM-10:00AM PAR 201
Wr
ID
E 323L • English As A World Language
35350 • Spring 2017
Meets MF 2:00PM-3:00PM PAR 308
GC
(also listed as LIN 323L)
E 316N • Masterworks Of World Lit
35260 • Fall 2016
Meets MWF 2:00PM-3:00PM PAR 206
GC
HU
(also listed as C L 315)
UGS 303 • Language In The Media
62905-62920 • Fall 2016
Meets MW 11:00AM-12:00PM PAR 201
Wr
ID
E 321L • American English
34510 • Spring 2016
Meets MWF 2:00PM-3:00PM MEZ B0.302
CD
(also listed as LIN 321L)
E 360K • English Grammar
34660 • Spring 2016
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM SZB 422
E 382L • Language Variation And Change
34735 • Fall 2015
Meets F 12:00PM-3:00PM CAL 323
UGS 303 • Language In The Media
62245-62260 • Fall 2015
Meets MW 11:00AM-12:00PM PAR 201
Wr
ID
E S316N • World Literature
82740 • Summer 2015
Meets MTWTHF 2:30PM-4:00PM MEZ 2.124
GC
UGS 303 • Language And Diversity
62835-62845 • Spring 2015
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM PAR 1
CD
E S316K • Masterworks Of Lit: World
83370 • Summer 2014
Meets MTWTHF 10:00AM-11:30AM PAR 301
(also listed as C L S315)
E 323L • English As A World Language
35860 • Spring 2014
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM WAG 112
(also listed as LIN 323L)
E 324 • Linguistics For Readers
35870 • Spring 2014
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM PAR 204
(also listed as LIN 350)
E 388M • Comp-Mediated Discourse: Data
36095 • Fall 2013
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM CAL 419
UGS 303 • Language And Individual Style
65790-65800 • Fall 2013
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM PAR 1
E F316K • Masterworks Of Lit: World
83513 • Summer 2013
Meets MTWTHF 11:30AM-1:00PM PMA 6.124
HU
E S316K • Masterworks Of Lit: World
83720 • Summer 2013
Meets MTWTHF 10:00AM-11:30AM BEN 1.122
E 316K • Masterworks Of Lit: World
35267 • Spring 2013
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM WAG 214
(also listed as C L 315)
E 323L • English As A World Language
35325 • Spring 2013
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM JES A209A
(also listed as LIN 323L)
UGS 303 • Language And Individual Style
64375-64385 • Fall 2012
Meets TTH 8:00AM-9:30AM PAR 203
E 321L • American English
35160 • Fall 2011
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM PAR 105
(also listed as LIN 321L)
UGS 302 • Language And Individual Style
63725 • Fall 2011
Meets TTH 8:00AM-9:30AM PAR 210
Wr
E F316K • Masterworks Of Lit: World
83540 • Summer 2011
Meets MTWTHF 8:30AM-10:00AM PAR 210
HU
E F316K • Masterworks Of Lit: World
83032 • Summer 2010
Meets MTWTHF 8:30AM-10:00AM PAR 101
HU
LIN 360K • English Grammar
40550 • Spring 2009
Meets MW 3:30PM-5:00PM FAC 10
LIN 360K • English Grammar
41640 • Spring 2008
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM FAC 10
Publications
Tseng, A. and Hinrichs, L., eds., forthcoming. “Towards a sociolinguistics of diaspora: New insights into the relationship between language and social context” [special issue]. Journal of Sociolinguistics. Scheduled: Fall 2020.
Bas Aarts, April McMahon and Lars Hinrichs, eds., 2021. The Handbook of English Linguistics. 2nd edition. Oxford/Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Lopez, Q. and Hinrichs, L., 2017. “‘C’mon, Get Happy:’ The commodification of linguistic stereotypes in a VW Super Bowl commercial.” Journal of English Linguistics 45:2. 130-156.
Grafmiller, J., Szmrecsanyi, B. and Hinrichs, L., 2017. “Restricting the restrictive relativizer.” Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 14:2, 309-355.
Hinrichs, L., Szmrecsanyi, B. and Bohmann, A., 2015. “Which-hunting and the Standard English relative clause.” Language 91:4, 806-836.
Hinrichs, L., Bohmann, A. and Gorman, K., 2013. “Real-time trends in the Texas English vowel system: F2 trajectory in GOOSE as an index of a variety's ongoing delocalization.” Rice Working Papers in Linguistics 4. <http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/75162>.
Hinrichs, L. and White-Sustaíta, J., 2011. "Global Englishes and the sociolinguistics of spelling:
A study of Jamaican blog and e-mail writing." English World-Wide 32:1, 46-73.
Hinrichs, L. and Farquharson, J.T., eds., 2011. Variation in the Caribbean: From Creole Continua to Individual Agency. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (Creole Language Library, 37).
Hinrichs, L., Smith, N. and Waibel, B., 2010. "A manual of information for the part-of-speech-tagged 'Brown' corpora." ICAME Journal 34, 189-230.
Hinrichs, L. and Szmrecsanyi, B., 2007. "Recent changes in the function and frequency of Standard English genitive constructions: a multivariate analysis of tagged corpora." English Language and Linguistics 11:3, 437-474.
Hinrichs, L., 2006. Codeswitching on the Web: English and Jamaican Creole in E-Mail Communication. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, 147).