Pia Lehecka
PhD Linguistics & English Language
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: s2263246@sms.ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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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