Blandijnberg 2
9000 Gent
elisabeth.witzenhausen@ugent.be
Date of birth: 24/04/1989
Education
- 10/2017 - 02/2018 Visiting Scholar Universität zu Köln
- 01/2017 - 04/2017 Visiting Scholar at Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
- since 10/2015 PhD Researcher Universiteit Gent “Continuity or Change – The post–cyclic developmen of preverbal ne in Continental West Germanic” (BOF Scholarship)
- 12/2014 – 09/2015 PhD Researcher Friedrich–Schiller–University Jena (FSU) “Der Klagspiegel in Handschrift und Druck – Studien zum Schreibsprachwandel im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert” (Konrad–Adenauer–Scholarship)
- 2008 – 2014 Friedrich–Schiller–University Jena: German and English Studies (First State Examination)
- 07/2005 – 07/2006 Rotary Exchange Year in Brazil, Aracatuba–SP
- 07/1996 – 07/2008 Geschwister–Scholl Gymnasium, Sondershausen
Professional Experience
- since 12/2017 Board member Deutsche Gesellschaft für Namenforschung (GfN)
- 03/2015 – 09/2015 Coordinator "Digital Humanities Network Jena"
- 04/2014 – 09/2015 FSU Jena – Assistant Lecturer
- 04/2014 – 02/2015 FSU Jena – Student Coordinator and Assistant at the Sports Management Department
- 04/2014 – 07/2014 Internship Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science – project: „Neuronal Mechanisms of Word Learning”
- 10/2009 – 03/2014 FSU Jena – Student assistant and tutor in the History of the German Language Department
Teaching Experience
- 10/2017 - 02/2018 FSU Jena - Seminar "Historische Korpuslinguistik"
- 01 – 05/2015 Gent University: "Historische Entwicklung des Deutschen"
- 09/2015 Akaki Tsereteli State University, Georgia: “Vom Minnesang bis Luther – Einführung in die Sprachgeschichte des Deutschen” (co-taught with Barbara Aehnlich)
- 04/2014 – 09/2015 FSU Jena – Bachelor Seminars: "Introduction to Historical Linguistics", "Language Acquisition", "English Grammar"
Attended Summer Schools and Courses
Talks:
- 03/12/2016 Talk with Anne Breitbarth at CGSW Stellenbosch: "Then or than: on the origin of exceptive denn in German"
- 08/07/2016 Presentation at SUM-UP Potsdamer Summer School in Historical Linguistics: „Functional change of ne in Middle Low German“
- 07/06/2016 Poster at Forum CA3 (Clarin-D) Hamburg: “POS Tagging und syntaktisches Parsing von mittelniederdeutschen Texten”
- 07/04/2016 Talk at Junius Symposium, Leiden: "New Insights into the Preservation and Decline of preverbal ne in Middle Low German"
- 18/07/2015 „Werkzeuge zur Annotation historischer Sprachstufen“ 3. Clarin–D Fach–AG, Leipzig
- 25/02/2015 Poster Presentaion DHd-Conference, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz: Annotation nicht-standardisierter Sprachstufen. Sprachwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Klagspiegel Conrad Heydens (1436) und zum Laienspiegel Ulrich Tenglers (1509). (with Barbara Aehnlich)
- 01/10/2014 Talk at Namen und Kulturlandschaften, Jena: "Bergbaunamen rund um den Kyffhäuser"
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