Dr. Annika Tjuka Language Scientist

CV

Full CV

Education

PhD in Linguistics

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (2019 - 2024)

Thesis: Language variation in word meanings: Cross-linguistic patterns and causes of colexifications

MA in Linguistics

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2016 - 2019)

Thesis: Body-part metaphors as a window to cognition: A cross-linguistic study of object and landscape terms

BA in German Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2012 - 2016)

Thesis: Emotionalisation through texts

Academic Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (2023 - Present)

Doctoral Researcher

Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (2019 - 2023)

Research Associate

Department of German Studies and Linguistics at Humboldt University Berlin (2019)

Teaching Experience

Lecturer

Chair for Multilingual Computational Linguistics at University of Passau, Germany (2023 - 2024)

Lecturer

Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. (2022 - 2023)

Lecturer

Department of English Studies at University of Jena, Germany (2019 - 2022)