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
Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
Please email me in advance for a time slot.
About
- since 05/2020 Lecturer (akademische Mitarbeiterin) and PhD student at the at the Chair for Development and Variation of the English Language
- 04/2016-04/2020 Student Assistant 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