Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities - Corpus Linguistics and Morphology

Carlotta Hübener

Former doctoral candidate at the Department of German Studies and Linguistics

 

Contact Information

Research associate at Leipzig University since April 2025

 

Education and employment

03/2026

Doctorate completed at the Department of German Studies and Linguistics

Title of the dissertation: Morphologisierung. Diachrone Korpusuntersuchungen zu Rektionskomposita und verwandten Strukturen [Morphologization: Diachronic Corpus Studies on Synthetic Compounds and Similar Structures]

since 04/2025

Research associate at the Institute of German Studies, Leipzig University

06/2023-03/2025

Research associate at the Institute of German Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen

04/2022-03/2025

Doctoral scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

09/2021-03/2022

Research associate at the Chair of German Linguistics, University of Bamberg

09/2020-08/2021 Research associate at the German Department, University of Hamburg
01/2018-06/2018 Semester abroad, Radboud University Nijmegen
05/2020

Master's degree in German Linguistics, University of Hamburg

09/2017

Bachelor's degree in German Language and Literature (major) and Mathematics (minor), University of Hamburg

 

Research Interests

  • word-formation morphology
  • syntax
  • corpus linguistics
  • language change
  • linguistic variation
  • comparative linguistics
  • graphemics

 

Publications until 2025

  • (2025) German noun-participle combinations as peripheral adjectives. In: Tanja Ackermann & Christian Zimmer (eds.): The diachrony of word class peripheries. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: Benjamins, 101–125. (Link to paper, open access download)
  • (2025) Morphologisierung und der Wandel des Deutschen zu einer rezipientenorientierten Sprache. In: Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 147(1), 137. (Link to paper)
  • (2024, with Renata Szczepaniak) Anfang diesen Jahres und Menschen jeden Alters. Eine Korpusuntersuchung zur n-haltigen Determiniererflexion im Genitiv Singular Maskulinum und Neutrum. In: Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik 52(3), 430464. (Link to paper)
  • (2023) The morphologization of German noun-participle combinations. A diachronic case study. In: Morphology 33(3), 189–223. (Link to paper, open access download)
  • (2021) What does solid spelling reveal about cognition? Evidence from Middle Low German. In: Stefan Hartmann (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 2021. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 117–134. (Link to paper)
  • (2018) Nicht/keinen/kein Fußball spielen? Inkorporationsprozesse in Substantiv-Verb-Verbindungen. In: Lisa Dücker, Melitta Gillmann, Eleonore Schmitt, Annika Vieregge & Renata Szczepaniak (Eds.): Wie verändern wir Sprache? Beiträge aus einem Lehrprojekt zum Thema Sprachwandel, 8398.