CV
Employment
Sep 2014–: Lecturer (Akademischer Rat), Institut für Linguistik/Romanistik, Universität Stuttgart
Oct 2012–Aug 2014: British Academy post-doctoral fellow, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford.
Project title: Divergent developments in phonology and syntax in the langue d’oc and langue d’oïl areas from the 11th to 13th centuries: the role of prosodic change
Jan 2011–Sep 2012: Post-doctoral researcher, UMR 5191 ICAR (CNRS & University of Lyon), École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
From January 2011–March 2012: Post-doctoral researcher for the ANR/DFG funded « Syntactic Reference Corpus of Medieval French » project, directed by Sophie Prévost (UMR LaTTiCe / CNRS & ENS) and Achim Stein (Institut für Linguistik/Romanistik, Universität Stuttgart, Germany). From March–September 2012, my work concentrated on developing the TXM corpus platform to handle treebank corpora and on new online editions of early Old French texts (forthcoming).
Third-party funded projects (PI)
Mar 2022–: PI in the DFG Research Unit Structuring the Input in Language Processing, Acquisition and Change (SILPAC) FOR 5157
Project title: Lexical change in motion: Motion verbs and motion lexicalization from medieval to modern Romance
Oct 2012–Aug 2014: British Academy post-doctoral fellow, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford.
Project title: Divergent developments in phonology and syntax in the langue d’oc and langue d’oïl areas from the 11th to 13th centuries: the role of prosodic change
Education
Oct 2007–May 2011: PhD (Linguistics), St. John’s College, University of Cambridge
Title: “The Emergence of Group Stress in Medieval French”, Supervisor: Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett (Cambridge)
This degree was funded by a grant from the AHRC.
Oct 2006–Jul 2007: MPhil (Linguistics), St. John’s College, University of Cambridge
This degree was funded by a grant from the AHRC and a scholarship from St. John’s College, Cambridge.
Oct 2002–June 2006: BA (MA 2009) (Modern and Medieval Languages), St. John’s College, University of Cambridge