CV
since 2018
Professor of historical German linguistics at the University of Cologne
2017
Habilitation at the University of Cologne, habilitation thesis „Vergleichskonstruktionen im Deutschen. Diachroner Wandel und synchrone Variation“ (Comparison constructions in German. Diachronic change and synchronic variation, publ. de Gruyter 2018)
2013-2018
Juniorprofessur (with tenure track) of historical German linguistics at the University of Cologne
2006-2012
Research assistent (Wiss. Mitarbeiterin) in historical linguistics, institute of linguistics, Goethe-University Frankfurt (Main)
2007
Dr. phil. (PhD), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, dissertation "History of negation in German" (publ. Benjamins 2008)
2001-2006
Research assistent (Wiss. Mitarbeiterin) in theoretical linguistics, institute for German linguistics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
1994-2001
studied German linguistics, philosophy, and European anthropology at Georg-August-University Göttingen, University of Wales Lampeter, and Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Memberships
- Cologne Center of Language Studies (CCLS)
- Netzwerk Sprachwandel
- Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien (ZEMAK)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)
- Arbeitsgruppe "Thesaurus indogermanischer Sprach- und Textmaterialien (TITUS)"
- DFG-Netzwerk „Grammatik für die Schule“
- DFG-Netzwerk „Historische Syntax“ (Leitung zus. mit Gisella Ferraresi, 2006-2015)
- Internationales Forschernetzwerk “Cycles of Grammaticalization” (Aston University/Birmingham City University, 2008-2009)