Julia Weinberger
About Me
University Education
| Period | Degree |
|---|---|
| since 2024 | M.A. Linguistics, University of Cologne (Germany) |
| 2020 - 2024 | B.A. English and American Studies, University of Freiburg (Germany) | ø 1,9 Thesis: “The Influence of Language Contact on Varieties of English - Kenyan English and Hong Kong English: Complexity on a Continuum of deletion and preservation.” |
| 2019 - 2024 | B.A. Romance Studies, University of Freiburg (Germany) | ø 1,8 Thesis: “Dialetto vs. Italiano Standard: Eine soziolinguistische Studie zur Perzeption der sprachlichen Norm in Italien.” |
Academic Work
| Period | Employment |
|---|---|
| since 2025 | Research Assistant, Chair of Englishes in Contact | Prof. Dr. Axel Bohmann, University of Cologne (Germany) |
| since 2025 | Research Assistant, SFB 1252 “Prominence in Language” Project B10 “Die Rolle von Genus und Geschlecht in Prominenzhierarchien: Eine sprach- und registervergleichende Perspektive”| Supervisor: Dr. Elen Le Foll & Prof. Dr. Stefan Hinterwimmer (University of Hamburg), University of Cologne (Germany) |
| 2022 - 2024 | Research Assistant, Chair of English Linguistics | Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Kortmann, University of Freiburg (Germany) |
| 2023 - 2024 | Research Assistant, Chair of Italian Philology | Prof. Dr. Daniela Marzo, University of Freiburg (Germany) |
| 2020 - 2022 | Assistant Library Supervision, Romance Studies Department, University of Freiburg (Germany) |
Research Interests
Fields of research
- Sociolinguistics
- Variational linguistics
- Varieties of English + World Englishes
- Dialectology (Italian dialects
Example papers (unpublished)
- “Re-defining Sheng: From Youth Language to National Identity."
- “Sociolinguistic variation within future tense constructions in Italian: A quantitative study on the alternation between the synthetic Simple Future tense construction and the analytic de-andative Future tense construction in modern day Italian.”
- “Anglizismen der italienischen Sprache im 20. Jahrhundert: Innovation oder Ausbeutung?”
- “Der Einfluss des Englischen auf das Français Canadien in Québec: Wortbildungsprozesse und morphologische Entlehnung”
Conference Presentations
(upcoming 2025) tba
(2023) Syntactic deletion and preservation in the world of Englishes: Investigating the influence of contact languages of contact languages of varieties of English, 74. Studentische Tagung der Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS), University of Vienna (Austria)Sytic
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Academic Affiliations
- American Dialect Society
- Societé Linguistique Romane