W. Juliane Elter
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Linguist @ University of Mannheim
Doctoral student and research associate with expertise in corpus linguistics, language contact and argument structure. Lecturer with over 5 years of experience teaching and supervising at BA and MA level. Founding member of WUMANetzwerk e.V. and current deputy member of Mannheim University’s senate commission for equal opportunities. Editor of the Mannheim papers in multilingualism, acquisition and change ‘Student Edition’. Passionate about advancing effective academic writing and open science. Enthusiastic skill-sharer both as learner and educator. Proactive team player with an eye for detail and feasibility.
After the planned completion of my PhD, I am looking to undertake postdoctoral research in a collaborative research project in historical contact linguistics in the domains of semantics, syntax and the lexicon and their interface at argument structure, which utilizes the knowledge gained during my research on the structural integration of Norse-derived loan verbs. I am interested in synchronic and diachronic syntax and semantics, language change and contact phenomena, and argument structure. I have worked with written and spoken language corpora of English and German, modern and historical, as well as Early Icelandic.
As a published author, avid reviewer and proof-reader and section editor of a Gold Open Access journal, I am looking to utilize the knowledge and competencies gained during my research and publication activities to undertake work in academic publishing.
Equity in ACADEMIA
I volunteer with WUMANetzwerk, a feminist reseachers network promoting positive change to the situation for FLINTA individuals* and other marginalized groups in the academic system.
As a founding member of WUMANetzwerk e.V., I support the network as part of the PR team in content creation and management for some of the social media accounts. From 2020 to 2022 I led and organized the WUMAN digital coworking group.
* We use the term FLINTA as inclusive of queer and trans women of all backgrounds as well as other people identifying fully or in part with this term.
RECENT activities
Structural Integration of Norse-derived Verbs in the Ormulum
talk at the 22nd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-22) (Sheffield, UK), 2023
read the Ormulum blog post about this and other talks here!
Loan Verbs in Contact Situations between Closely Related Languages Strengthening Existing Argument Structural Patterns
talk at the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics at the University of Oxford (Oxford/UK), 2022
Structural Effects of the Integration of Cognate Loan Verbs in Contact between Closely Related Languages
talk at the Contacts & Contrasts 2021 conference (Konin/Poland)