
Olga Timofeeva, Prof. Dr.
- Ausserordentliche Professorin für Historische Englische Sprachwissenschaft
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Old and Middle English
Historical lexicology and semantics
Language contact in the Middle Ages
Historical sociolinguistics
Historical pragmatics and discourse studies
Historical syntax
I am professor of English historical linguistics at the University of Zurich and the principal investigator of the SNSF-funded project Waxing and Waning Words: Lexical Variation and Change in Middle English (WAW-ME). My early specialisation was in Old English syntax. I have since published on a range of subjects, including Old and Middle English lexis, language contact and second language acquisition in the Middle Ages, historical sociopragmatics, and the evolution of legal register in early English. I am the author of Non-finite Constructions in Old English, with Special Reference to Syntactic Borrowing from Latin,Société Néophilologique de Helsinki (2010) and Sociolinguistic Variation in Old English: Records of Communities and People,
Benjamins (2022).
I have regularly taught the History of the English Language (both lecture and seminar) as well as:
Discourse on, by and for women in the English Middle Ages | HS 2023 |
The language of Chaucer and other Londoners | HS 2022 |
Critical Discourse Analysis for medieval texts | FS 2020; HS 2024 |
Beowulf and Old English heroic poetry | FS 2019 |
Bible translation: From Ælfric to King James | FS 2018 and 2023 |
Language contact in the history of English | HS 2017, 2020 and 2024 |
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WAW-ME project: www.waw-me.uzh.ch
You can find most of my publications on:
ZORA www.zora.uzh.ch
Academia.edu: uzh.academia.edu/OlgaTimofeeva