Dr. Svenja Bonmann
Historical-Comparative Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne
Tel: +49-221-470-4112
Fax: +49-221-470-5947
Office hours:
by appointment
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Curriculum Vitae
| since 04/2023 | Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin), University of Cologne, Department of Linguistics, Historical-Comparative Linguistics |
| 10/2022–02/2023 | Lecturer, University of Cologne |
| 2021–2022 | Research associate (CRC 1252 Prominence in Language, Project B05), University of Cologne |
| 05/2022 | PhD (Historical-Comparative Linguistics), University of Cologne, Title of the doctoral thesis: "Parametric Syntactic Reconstruction: Noun Phrases in Iranian, Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Indo-European" 2nd place in the annual contest for the best dissertation of the academic year 2021–2022 (Society for Indo-European Studies) |
| 2017–2022 | PhD Studies, University of Zurich (09/2017-08/2020) and University of Cologne (09/2020-05/2022) |
| 2021 | Lecturer, University of Cologne |
| 2017–2020 | Research associate (SNSF-Project on the Evolution of Noun Phrases in Indo-Iranian), University of Zurich |
| 2014–2016 | M.A. in Historical-Comparative Linguistics and Medieval Studies, University of Cologne, Final Grade: 1.2. Title of the master's thesis: "Venetisch: Überlieferung, Grammatik, sprachhistorische Einordnung", awarded with a prize for the best master's thesis of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities |
| 2013–2017 | Tutor (and later Lecturer) for Latin and Ancient Greek, University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 2012–2016 | Student and research assistant, Universities of Duisburg-Essen and Cologne |
| 2010–2014 | B.A. (History and German Studies), University of Duisburg-Essen, Final Grade: 1.1 (with distinction). Title of the bachelor's thesis: "Das Bild der heidnischen Seherin und Zauberin in altnordischen Quellen", awarded with the prize for the best bachelor's thesis of the Faculty of Humanities |