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Eva Zehentner
Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics

Biography

Eva Zehentner joined the department in September 2017, after receiving her PhD at the University of Vienna and getting some post-doc experience there. She is interested in historical linguistics, specifically (morpho-)syntactic change in Middle English, as well as different theoretical models of linguistic change, above all evolutionary linguistics.

Career

  • University of Zurich (Switzerland)

Post-doc researcher (50%), SNF-funded project 'Prepositions in English argument structure' (2018 -)

https://www.prepcomp.uzh.ch/en.html 

  • University of York

Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics (2017 -)

  • University of Vienna (Austria)

University assistant (post-doc; 2016-2017)

  • University of Vienna (Austria)

University assistant (prae-doc); PhD: On competition and cooperation in Middle English ditransitives (2012-2016; supervisor: Nikolaus Ritt)

  • University of Vienna (Austria)

Degree in English Studies (2006-2012) and Indo-European Studies (2006-2013)

Contact details

Eva Zehentner
Department of Language and Linguistic Science
Vanbrugh College C Block
Room : V/B/118

Tel: 01904 322661