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Historical-Comparative Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne

Tel: +49-221-470-4112
Fax: +49-221-470-5947

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E-Mail: svenja.bonmann[at]uni-koeln[dot]de

Curriculum Vitae

since 01/2025Membership, "Junges Kolleg" of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts (combined with a fellowship)
since 04/2023Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin), University of Cologne, Department of Linguistics, Historical-Comparative Linguistics
2021–2022Research 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)

2017–2022PhD Studies, University of Zurich (09/2017-08/2020) and University of Cologne (09/2020-05/2022)
2017–2020Research associate (SNSF-Project on the Evolution of Noun Phrases in Indo-Iranian), University of Zurich
2014–2016M.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
2013–2017Tutor (and later Lecturer) for Latin and Ancient Greek, University of Duisburg-Essen
2012–2016Student and research assistant, Universities of Duisburg-Essen and Cologne
2010–2014B.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

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