About me
PLEASE NOTE: I will be working at FU Berlin after 1 October 2021.
I was an assistant professor at the Department of Romance Philology at the University of Freiburg. My research focuses on the development of new quantitative and qualitative methods for the description of language variation and change.
Research interests
- Language variation and change
- Linguistic structure and social interaction
- Quantitative approaches to the description of linguistic structure
- Corpus linguistics and digital humanities
- Experimental evidence in linguistics
- Pragmatic theories
Current projects
- Historical dialectology (Spanish)
- Verbal periphrases (Spanish)
- Variation and change in interrogatives (Portuguese, Spanish)
- Iterative expressions (French, Italian)
- Hearer-based reanalysis in language change
- Discourse markers in spoken and written language (Spanish)
Short CV
Academic career
| Since Oct 2021 | Full professor at the Freie Universität Berlin |
| Oct 2020 - July 2021 | Visiting professor at the University of Regensburg |
| 2020 | Habilitation: Venia legendi in Romance Philology, University of Freiburg |
| 2015-2018 | Scholarship by the FWO (Research Foundation – Flanders) at KU Leuven for a postdoc about the development of interrogatives in Spanish and Portuguese |
| Feb-May 2014 | Visiting professor at the University of Antwerp |
| 2013 | Ph.D. in Romance Philology, University of Freiburg ("summa cum laude") |
| Since 2012 | Assistant professor at the Department of Romance Philology, University of Freiburg |
| 2012 | Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (tutelage: Prof. Javier Elvira González) |
| 2011 | Studies at the Universitat de Barcelona, collaboration in the research project "Gramática de las perífrasis verbales del español", Prof. Mar Garachana |
| 2009-2012 | Scholarship by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for a PhD in the Graduate School GRK 1624/1 "Frequency effects in language" |
| 2009 | Teaching assignment at the University of Cologne |
| 2002-2009 | Studies of Romance Languages (Spanish and Italian), English and History at the University of Cologne and the Universidad de Sevilla |
Prizes
| 2020 | Irmgard-Ulderup-Preis 2020 for the best Habilitation thesis, awarded by the Dr. Jürgen und Irmgard Ulderup Stiftung. |
| 2014 | Prize of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) for the best presentation (category post-doc) at the 47th Annual Meeting at the SLE Poznán. Presentation title: “The development of iterative verbal periphrases in Romance”. |
| 2013 | Hans-und-Susanne-Schneider Preis 2013 for the best Ph.D. thesis. |
