Dr Sheila Watts
College:
Newnham College
Positions:
University Lecturer
Department of German and Dutch
Postal Address:
Newnham College
Sidgwick Avenue
CAMBRIDGE CB3 9DF
Email:
sw271@cam.ac.uk
Phone:
(+44) (0)1223 335816
Fax
(+44) (0)1223 335062
Sheila Watts is a graduate of Dublin University who moved to Cambridge in 1998 to take up a post teaching German and Germanic linguistics. The main focus of her research to date has been on the expression of time within the verb phrase through categories like tense, aspect and Aktionsart, and she has written on verbal prefixes, on the development of the perfect, and on other phenomena linked to grammaticalization in the older Germanic languages. Another interest concerns ideas about the German language in the seventeenth century, and she has recently published on both the grammarian Justus Georg Schottelius and the lexicographer Caspar Stieler. Lastly, she is committed to all aspects of language teaching, and has published on
ab initio learners as well as on the teaching of spoken German at third level.
