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 Studies at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Russia

Research Projects

• PhD research project: 'Animal 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 Semantics
• Construction Grammar
• Corpus Linguistics
• Lexicography
• Philosophy of Language