Pia Lehecka

PhD Linguistics & English Language

  • Linguistics and English Language
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

Dugald Stewart Building

City
3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9AD

Background

I am a historical linguist currently working on the development of long vowels in Older Scots. My background lies in the general linguistic history of English and Germanic languages. During my MA, I mostly focused on subjectification and grammaticalisation. 

Qualifications

MA English Language and Linguistics 2023 (University of Vienna) 

  • Thesis: The role of subjectivity in the grammaticalisation of downtoners

BA English and American Studies 2020 (University of Vienna) 

  • Thesis: Robert Burns’s Scots Songs on the Jacobite Movement

 

Responsibilities & affiliations

Committee member organising the following events: 

 

Undergraduate teaching

LEL2A: Linguistic Theory and the Structure of English (2023)

LEL2C: English in Time and Space (2024)

Invited speaker

French lexicon in Old and Middle English law at the International Legal Linguistics Workshop 2020