curriculum vitae
April 2011 -
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Post-Doctoral Researcher IFAAR - RWTH Aachen University
Academic year 2010
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Guest of the Research training group GRK DFG 1624/1 "Frequency effects in language" at the University of Freiburg
April 2010: Defense - PhD (Dr. phil) summa cum laude
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Committee:
Prof. Dr. Holger Diessel (thesis advisor)
Prof. Dr. Volker Gast
Prof. Dr. Anatol Stefanowitsch
Prof. Dr. Monika Schwarz-Friesel (chair)
August 2009 - March 2011
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Researcher in the project English-German Contrasts - A comprehensive survey of major contrasts between English and German funded by the DFG.
August 2009
- Attendance of "International Summer School on Embodied Language Games and Construction Grammar" Cortona, IT (Full Stipend from European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics)
April 2005 - April 2009
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Junior Researcher
Department of British and American Studies, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena
April 2009: Submission of dissertation: “Understanding Complex Constructions: A Quantitative Corpus Linguistic Approach to the Processing of English Relative Clauses”
2007 - 2009
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Member of the DFG-Nachwuchsnetzwerk Konstruktionsgrammatik (Construction Grammar)
Principal In(ve)stigators: Kerstin Fischer, Anatol Stefanowitsch
March 2005
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Magister Artium: English Linguistics, Psychology, Philosophy
University of Hamburg
MA Thesis (English Linguistics)
“Initial structural analyses and lexical bias:
A corpus-based approach”
Thesis Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Klaus-Uwe Panther , Prof. Dr. Stefan Thomas Gries
(Cognitive) Psychology
(Focus: Language Processing, Human Memory)
Prof. Dr. Rainer Kluwe
(Analytical) Philosophy
(Focus: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Künne
< 2005
- Full-time registered student for the 1999 academic year at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa (enrolled as 'International Special Student' in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences following undergraduate courses in philosophy)
- Student Assistant (tutor): Introduction to Linguistics; repeatedly
(Universität Hamburg) - Student Assistant (tutor) 'Introduction to Corpus Linguistics'
(Universität Hamburg) - Student Assistant (library), IAA, University of Hamburg: Classification of newly acquired books (linguistics)
(University of Hamburg) - Attendance of DGfS/LSA Summer School on 'Formal and Functional Linguistics', Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, 2002
Ad hoc reviewing
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2011 for Cognitive Linguistics
2010 for Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
2009 for Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
2008 for Usage-based Approaches to Cognitive Semantics (edited volume)
2007 for Cognitive Linguistics
Memberships