News
- I submitted my PhD dissertation entitled “Language Variation in Word Meanings: Cross-Linguistic Patterns and Causes of Colexifications”.
- We made a major release of Concepticon 3.0 and NoRaRe 1.0. New data, new web app, and new CLDF datasets. The paper is available here.
- My edited volume article on the use of mặt ‘face’ in Vietnamese is published in Brill’s Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, Volume: 34.
Research Profile
My main goal is to answer questions about linguistic diversity with a focus on language variation in word meanings. I have a BA and MA degree in linguistics from the Humboldt University Berlin and I submitted my PhD dissertation to the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in August 2023. I currently work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. I am a language scientist studying patterns and causes of words with multiple meanings. For my work, I use data from language documentation, large-scale databases, and computational methods. In my Master’s thesis, I conducted the first systematic study of body part extensions such as table leg and foot of the mountain. I examined the frequency of 95 expressions in 13 languages and the preferences for underlying analogy patterns based on similarity in shape, spatial orientation, and function. The first project of my doctoral research established the Database of Cross-Linguistic Norms, Ratings, and Relations for Words and Concepts (NoRaRe), which contains 98 datasets from linguistics and psychology across 40 languages including 65 word properties.
- A video in which I present my research profile can be viewed on YouTube: youtu.be/KieYIwMyNc0
Experiences
Project on Expansion of Data for Language Comparison and Investigation of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications.
Project on Cross-Linguistic Strategies of Denotation funded by International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS). The title of my dissertation is “Language variation in word meanings: Cross-linguistic patterns and causes of colexifications.” My supervisors are Johann-Mattis List and Stephen C. Levinson.
Project on Focus Alternatives in the Human Mind - Retrieval, Representation and Recall (FAHMRRR) led by Katharina Spalek, funded by European Research Council (ERC).
Project on Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Polarity systems in Melanesian languages (MelaTAMP) led by Kilu von Prince and Manfred Krifka, funded by German Research Foundation (DFG).
Project on Focus Alternatives in the Human Mind - Retrieval, Representation and Recall (FAHMRRR) led by Katharina Spalek, funded by European Research Council (ERC).
Project on Conceptual-Semantic Knowledge Processing in the Human Brain led by Philipp Kuhnke in the group of Gesa Hartwigsen “Modulation of Language Networks.”
Publications
Preprints
Blog Posts
Invited Talks
A list of all my talks including links to slides is available here: https://annikatjuka-talks.github.io/. For videos, check out my YouTube channel.
Talks (most recent)
A list of all my talks including links to slides is available here: https://annikatjuka-talks.github.io/. For videos, check out my YouTube channel.
Projects
Databases
teaching
Title: Computer-assisted approaches to lexical typology
Title: Computer-assisted approaches to lexical typology
Title: Bayesian Phylogenetic Linguistics. Video available - click here
Bookshelf
I noticed that many people spend quite some time inspecting the books on a person’s shelf. I am no exception. A bookshelf is a great opportunity to find out what someone is interested in and can be a useful conversation starter. So with this collection, I would like to invite you to browse through my favourite books.
- View my bookshelf here.