Curriculum Vitae

Education

2006    PhD, Romance Linguistics, University of Konstanz, “The Position of Clitic
           Object Pronouns in Romance Languages with special consideration of
           Occitan, Catalan, and French”
           (Advisers: G.A. Kaiser, C. Schwarze, J.M. Meisel)

1998    MA, Linguistics, Université Lumière Lyon 2, “Phonetic and Phonological
           Analysis of the Francoprovençal Dialect of Saint-Romain-en-Jarez (Loire)”
           (Advisers: J.-M. Hombert, J.-B. Martin)

1997    Studies of Linguistics with concentration areas Phonetics and Franco-
–1998   provençal Dialectology, Université Lumière Lyon 2

1994    Studies of Romance Linguistics (French, Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese),
–1999  German Linguistics, and Phonetics, University of Hamburg

1992    Studies of Biochemistry / Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg
–1994

Academic Positions

2011   Visiting Professor, Institut für Romanische Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
          München (LMU Munich)

2010–  University Lecturer, Institut für Romanistik, University of Hamburg

2009    Maître de Conférences (University Lecturer), Institut de Linguistique Romane
 –2010 Pierre Gardette
           and Ecole Supérieure de Traduction et de Relations Internationales,
           Université Catholique de Lyon and
           Academic Visitor and Consultant, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages,
           University of Oxford

2007   Research Assistant, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford;
 –2009 Project "Autonomous Morphology in Diachrony: comparative evidence from
           the Romance languages" (Prof. Martin Maiden, Mr John Charles Smith) and
           Research Associate, Keble College, Oxford

2003    Research Assistant, Department of Linguistics, Research Centre SFB 471
 –2007 "Variation and Evolution in the Lexicon", University of Konstanz; Project
           "Evolution and Variation of Expletive and Neuter Pronouns in Romance
           Languages" (Prof. Georg A. Kaiser)

2002    Research Assistant, Department of Linguistics, Research Centre SFB 538
           "Multilingualism", University of Hamburg; Project "Multilingualism as
           Cause and Effect of Language Change: Historical Syntax of Romance
           Languages" (Prof. Jürgen M. Meisel)

1999    Research Assistant, Department of Linguistics, Research Centre SFB 538
 –2002 "Multilingualism", University of Hamburg; Project "Simultaneous and
           Successive Acquisition of Bilingualism" (Prof. Jürgen M. Meisel)

1995    Student Research Assistant (Romance Linguistics), Department of
–1997  Linguistics, University of Hamburg

Honours, Awards & Prizes

07/10    Project DÉRom (Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman), ANR & DFG, Laboratoire ATILF
            (CNRS / Nancy-Université) École d’été franco-allemande en étymologie romane
            (Franco-German Summer School on Romance Etymology), Nancy, France
08/09    Laboratoire d’Histoire des Théories Linguistiques (UMR 7597 CNRS / Université Paris
–09/09  Diderot - Paris 7): École Européenne d’Été – Biennale d’Histoire des Théories
            Linguistiques : Qu’est-ce que l’historicité des idées linguistiques ? (European Summer
            School on the History of Linguistic Ideas), Île de Porquerolles (Var), France
04/09    Honorary Member of the Senior Common Room, Keble College, Oxford, UK
–09/10
06/08    Société de Linguistique Romane & Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Firenze-Napoli:
            Scuola estiva di linguistica e filologia romanica (Summer School in Romance
            Linguistics and Philology), Procida, Naples, Italy
10/07-   Research Associate, Keble College, Oxford, UK
–04/09
09/06    “Four Motors for Europe & Wales”: Catalan language course,
            Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
08/02    Hansische Universitätsstiftung: Occitan language courses: 28e Escòla Occitana d’Estiu
            (Occitan Summer School), Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France; Universitat Occitana d’Estiu
            (Occitan Summer University), Nîmes, France
08/01    Instituto Camões: 66° Curso de Verão (Portuguese language course),
            Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
07/99    Spanish Foreign Office: Escuela de Verano Española (Spanish language course),
            Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
09/97    DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship for study year,
–05/98  Université Lumière Lyon 2, France

Fieldwork / Study visits / Internship

07–       Archive visit, BREL, Aoste, and Fieldwork on verb morphology of
 08/08   Francoprovençal, Aosta Valley, Italy
09/06    Fieldwork on subject pronoun usage in Francoprovençal, Aosta Valley, Italy
11/03    Fieldwork on subject pronoun usage in the Dominican Republic (Santo
            Domingo, Santiago de los Caballeros, Arroyo del Toro)
10/03    Study visit, investigation of Judeo-Spanish / Judezmo in Istanbul, Turkey,
            organised by W. Busse, FU Berlin, and M. Studemund-Halévy, University
            of Hamburg
09/03    Fieldwork training with ALD explorer Brigitte Rührlinger in the Dolomites
            (Cibiana di Cadore, Vodo di Cadore (Vinigo)), Italy
02/02    Study visit, investigation of Judeo-Spanish / Judezmo in Istanbul, Turkey,
            organised by M. Studemund-Halévy, University of Hamburg
07/98    Six week internship, European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages,
            Brussels, Belgium
10/97    Fieldwork: recordings of the Francoprovençal dialect of Saint-Romain-
            en-Jarez (Loire), France