Alisa Egorova, M.A.
Lecturer and PhD candidate
Campus Am Neuen Palais
Am Neuen Palais 10
Building 19, Room 1.11
14469 Potsdam
consulting hours
In August 2024, Thursdays from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (except 1 August)
On 5/ 12/ 19 September 2024, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
From 10 October 2024 on, Thursdays from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
About
- since 05/2020 Lecturer (akademische Mitarbeiterin) and PhD student at the at the Chair for Development and Variation of the English Language
- 2015-2020 M.A. in Foreign-language Linguistics at the University of Potsdam, Germany
- 2011-2015 Freelance translator/interpreter
- 2006-2011 Specialist Degree in Linguistics & Translation/Interpreting Studies at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Russia
Research Projects
- PhD research project: 'Denominal Verbs in English'
- M.A. thesis: 'Hunting Down Animal Verbs: An Investigation into the Mechanisms of Meaning Transfer Underlying English Verbal Zoosemy'
Research Interests
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Historical Linguistics
- Construction Grammar
- Corpus Linguistics
- Lexicology
- Philosophy of Language
Publications (orcid)
- Egorova, A., & Wolf, H.-G. (2023). What’s Dog Got to Do With It? Motivation Behind Denominal (Animal) Verbs. Research in Language, 21(2), 129–144. https://doi.org/10.18778/1731-7533.21.2.02