Training and professional background
Research interests
Administration activities
Fieldwork
Participation in research projects
Teaching
Main publications and conferences
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I have a background in general linguistics, specializing in typology. My particular interest in phenomena of voice and valence-changing operations led me to conduct investigations on the psych alternation in Romance languages and beyond. Now, I am further pursuing my curiosity in typology from a geographic and diachronic perspective as a PhD student in the ERC Language REDUX project. I aim to explore the spatial and temporal dynamics of languages, language families, and language diversity across the Eurasian continent, and how these dynamics affect language structurally.
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TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
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Thesis: The language dynamics of Eurasia in space and time.
Supervision: Matthias Urban
Université Lumière Lyon 2; CNRS
Since April 2025
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| Master of Arts (MA)
Linguistics
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Apr. 2022 - Feb. 2025
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| Double Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Linguistics and Geography with Minor in Russian
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Oct. 2018 - Oct. 2021
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| Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
University of Oregon
Jul. 2025
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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| General linguistics |
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| Linguistic typology |
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| Morphosyntax (esp. valence-changing operations) |
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| Language geography (Eurasia) |
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ADMINISTRATION ACTIVITIES
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| Café Doctorant•e
Organization of (bi)monthly PhD workshops.
Since Oct. 2025
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FIELDWORK
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| Psych Predicates in Catalan and Spanish
One-week research excursion to Mallorca
Morphosyntactic elicitation of psych predicate phrases and case alternation
May 2023
Wiskandt, Niklas, Rolf Kailuweit, Addison J. Blanchard-Rooney, Sarah Grätz, Armin Sawicki, Jessica Schamne, Anna Stein, Pia Kailuweit, Elga Cremades & Carles Royo. (2023). Fieldwork on the syntax of psych predicates in Catalan and Spanish on Mallorca: Studies and data. Electronic resource: repository DOI pending.
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| Making invisible languages seen: Urban fieldwork in Düsseldorf
Semester-long documentation projects
Body part metaphors in Pontic Greek as result of language contact
Apr. - Jul. 2022
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PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS
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Chair for Phonology and Phonetics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Learning English S / Learning German S: The role of phonemic and subphonemic cues in morphological learning
Assistance in development and implementation of experimental investigations
Dec. 2022 - Jan. 2024
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| Graduate group project
Representations of property concepts in spoken and written Malayalam
Conceptualization, methodology development, data elicitation and analysis
Nov. - Dec. 2022
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TEACHING
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| PhD Workshop
Introduction to Overleaf for Linguistic Glossing
DDL, Lyon, France
26.02.2026
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| Invited Guest Lecture
The psych alternation: An experimental perspective
Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany
04.06.2025
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| Bachelor Seminar
Introduction to Phonology
Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany
Summer Semester 2023
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
SHOW LONG VERSION / SHORT VERSION
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PhDs and master thesis
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Blanchard-Rooney, A., 2025, "A cross-Romance perspective on the interface of emotional intensity and the psych alternation", Master thesis, Institute of Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
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Chapters in books
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Blanchard-Rooney, A., 2026, "Sketch-based elicitation on the morphosyntactic properties of object-experiencer psych verbs in Catalan and Spanish", in Psych Predicates in Romance Languages, 8, Wiskandt, N., Cremades Cortiella, E. & Kailuweit, R. (eds), Venice, Italy, Edizioni Ca' Foscari, pp. 83–127
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Conference presentations
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Blanchard-Rooney, A., Kluz, M., Giebler, J. & Urban, M., 2026, "A geographic approach to exploring diachronic language diversity", 19th Methods in Dialectology and Language Diversity International Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 04–08.08.2026
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Blanchard-Rooney, A., Kluz, M., Giebler, J. & Urban, M., 2026, "Diachronic language dynamics of Eurasia and beyond in geographic perspective", EVOLANG XVI, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 07–10.04.2026 (poster)
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Blanchard-Rooney, A. & Wiskandt, N., 2025, "A cross-linguistic experiment on the role of emotion intensity in the psych alternation", 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Bordeaux, France, 26–29.08.2025
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Blanchard-Rooney, A., 2024, "On the role of emotional intensity in the psych alternation: A cross-Romance perspective", Going Romance 38, Braga, Portugal, 04–06.12.2024
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Blanchard-Rooney, A., Schamne, J., Meyers, P. & Wiskandt, N., 2023, "A service learning perspective on urban minority language documentation: Language contact and body part metaphors in Pontic Greek", Documenting Languages, Documenting Cultures: Migration, Minorities, Dialects, Napoli, Italy, 05–06.10.2023
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Development Neurocognition Disorders
Linguistic Diversity and its Sources
04 72 72 64 10
addison-james.blanchard-rooney@cnrs.fr