Prof. Dr. Tania Kuteva

Kuteva - in all publications
Kouteva - for all administrative purposes

Curriculum Vitae

Place of birth: Bourgas, Bulgaria
Citizenship: German
1981 - 1990 Assistant-Professor of English, Foreign Language Centre, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
1985 - 1988 Maternity leave (partial); progeny: Nadia, Anguel
1988 - 1989 Postgraduate qualification course at the English Language Department of Sofia University, Bulgaria
1989 M.A. degree from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria
1992 - 1993 Studied English Philology and Slavistics at the University of Heidelberg
1996 Ph.D. degree, English Language Department, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
1994 - 1999 Research Associate at the University of Cologne
1999 - 2000 Research Associate at the University of Hamburg
Since 2000 Prof. Dr. in English Linguistics at the Institute for English and American Studies, Düsseldorf University
2002 Visiting Professorship at the University of Texas, San Antonio, USA
August 2004 - April 2005 Visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
February 2006 - June 2006 Invited scholar at the Netherlands' Institute for advanced studies (NIAS), Wassenar, The Netherlands
October 2009 - April 2010. Visiting Professor at the University of London, SOAS (ELAP) as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow within the Feodor-Lynen Program for Experienced Scholars.
October 2010 - April 2011. Visiting Professor at the University of London, SOAS (ELAP) as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow within the Feodor-Lynen Program for Experienced Scholars.
October 2011 - April 2012. Visiting Professor at the University of London, SOAS (ELAP) as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow within the Feodor-Lynen Program for Experienced Scholars.
Currently: Professorial Research Associate in the Department of Linguistics at SOAS, University of London, UK
From 1st October 2012: Honorary Visiting Professor at the University College of London (UCL), London, UK

Languages spoken fluently: Bulgarian, English, Russian, German

Fellowships and Grants

1993	European Community- Fellowshi; Project on Grammaticalization, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bernd Heine, University of Cologne
1994	Max-Planck Psycholinguistics research grant, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Holland
1994	Grant for participation in the First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, University of Buffalo, New York, USA
1995	Grant for participation in the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM, USA
December 1999	Nomination as a possible Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, USA
August 2004 - April 2005	Max-Planck grant for research on Standard Average European languages at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
01.02.2006 - 30.06.2006	A grant from the Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences for research as a member of the international joint research team on "Restricted language systems as windows on language genesis" at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), Wassenar, The Netherlands
2008	Feodor Lynen-Stipendium für erfahrene Wissenschaftler der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

Membership of Learned Societies

Member of the Cognitive Linguistics Society, since 1991

Member of the German Society of Linguistics, since 1993

Member of the Association for Linguistic Typology, since 1996

Member of the Linguistic Society of America, since 1997

Participation in Editorial Boards

Journal STUDIES IN LANGUAGE

Electronic Journal CONSTRUCTIONS

Research Interests/Projects

Lexicon vs. grammar

The avertive and the proximative from a typological perspective

Upcoming Publications

Grammaticalization and the evolution of grammar: on one particular kind of grammatical categories. Proceedings of the 2010 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2010), Seoul, Korea.
(with Petra In der Smitten) "European borders: political and linguistic." Rainer Vossen ans Christa Koenig (eds.) Essays on language contact (in honour of Bernd Heine) (t.a.).
(with Bernd Heine) 2012. "An integrative model of grammaticalization". In: Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs 242. 159-190.
(with John Haiman and Bernd Heine) "The origins of 2sg. generic indefinite." (t.a.).
(with Bernard Comrie) in preparation, "The evolution of language and elaborateness of grammar: the case of relative clauses in Creole languages." (t.a.).

Selected Publications

2010	"Contact and grammaticalization". (with Bernd Heine) In Hickey, Raymond (ed.). Handbook of language contact. Wiley-Blackwell.
	"Converging grammaticalization processes in Europe: Towards an explanation". (with Bernd Heine), In Hinrichs, Uwe (ed.), Handbuch der Eurolinguistik. Wiesbaden 2010. Harrassowitz, pp. 531-552. (= Slavistische Studienbücher. Neue Folge. Bd. 20).
2009	Towards linguistic unity in Europe. (with Bernd Heine) In: Hinrichs, Uwe, Norbert Reiter, and Siegfried Tornow (eds). Eurolinguistik. Entwicklungen und Perspektiven. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pp. 141-164.
	Grammatical categories and linguistic theory: elaborateness in grammar. In Austin, Peter, Bond, Oliver, Charette, Monik, Nathan, David and Peter Sells (eds). 2009. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference "Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory", November 2009. SOAS, London, pp. 13-28.
	"The genesis of grammar: on combining nouns." In: Botha, Rudolf and Henriette de Swart (eds.) Language evolution: the view from restricted linguistic systems. Utrecht: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, LOT, Pp. 139-178.
2008	"Constraints on contact-induced linguistic change." (with Bernd Heine). Journal of Language Contact – THEMA 2 (2008), www.jlc-journal.org, Pp. 57 – 90.
	"On the 'frills' of grammaticalization". In: López-Couso, María José & Elena Seoane (eds.), in collaboration with Teresa Fanego. Rethinking grammaticalization: New perspectives for the twenty-first century (Typological Studies in Language). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2007	The Genesis of Grammar: A Reconstruction (with Bernd Heine). Oxford: OUP.
	"On the explanatory value of grammaticalization" (with Bernd Heine), In Good, Jeff (ed.), Linguistic universals and language change, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 215-233.
2006	"The Proximative", Article entry in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Ed. Edited by Keith Brown, Elsevier: Oxford. http://www1.elsevier.com/homepage/about/mrwd/ell2/LALIalpha.pdf
	The Changing Languages of Europe (with Bernd Heine). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2005	Language contact and grammatical change (with Bernd Heine). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2004	Auxiliation: An Enquiry into the nature of grammaticalization (2nd edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2003	"On contact induced grammaticalization (with Bernd Heine)." Studies in Language.
2002	World Lexicon of grammaticalization (with Bernd Heine). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1999	"Languages and societies: the 'punctuated equilibrium' model of language development." Language and Communication 19: 213-228.
1998	"Large linguistic areas in grammaticalization: Auxiliation in Europe." Language Sciences 20(3): 289-311.
1995	"Distributed spatial semantics. (with Chris Sinha)." Journal of Linguistics, 18: 167 - 199.
1994	"Auxiliation and iconicity." Journal of Pragmatics 22: 71 - 81.
1989	"A cognitive approach towards verb analyticity." M.A. Thesis, University of Sofia.

A complete list of publications is available as a PDF file here.

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