About

• since 05/2020 Lecturer (akademische Mitarbeiterin) and PhD student at the at the Chair for Development and Variation of the English Language
• 2015-2020 M.A. in Foreign-language Linguistics at the University of Potsdam, Germany
• 2011-2015 Freelance translator/interpreter
• 2006-2011 Specialist Degree in Linguistics & Translation/Interpreting Studies at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Russia

Research Projects

• PhD research project: 'Denominal Verbs in English'
• M.A. thesis: 'Hunting Down Animal Verbs: An Investigation into the Mechanisms of Meaning Transfer Underlying English Verbal Zoosemy'

Research Interests

• Cognitive Linguistics
• Historical Linguistics
• Construction Grammar
• Corpus Linguistics
• Lexicology
• Philosophy of Language

Publications (orcid)

• Egorova, A., & Wolf, H.-G. (2023). What’s Dog Got to Do With It? Motivation Behind Denominal (Animal) Verbs. Research in Language, 21(2), 129–144. https://doi.org/10.18778/1731-7533.21.2.02