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.

FORMATION ET PARCOURS PROFESSIONNEL

THÈMES DE RECHERCHE

ACTIVITÉS ADMINISTRATIVES

TERRAIN

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.

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

PARTICIPATION À PROJETS

Research Assistant
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
Graduate group project
Representations of property concepts in spoken and written Malayalam
Conceptualization, methodology development, data elicitation and analysis
Nov. - Dec. 2022

ENSEIGNEMENTS

PhD Workshop
Introduction to Overleaf for Linguistic Glossing
DDL, Lyon, France
26.02.2026
Invited Guest Lecture
The psych alternation: An experimental perspective
Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany
04.06.2025
Bachelor Seminar
Introduction to Phonology
Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany
Summer Semester 2023

PRINCIPALES PUBLICATIONS ET CONFÉRENCES

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

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

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
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)
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
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
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
Blanchard-Rooney, A., 2023, "Sketch-based elicitation of psych verbs in Spanish and Catalan on Mallorca: Annotations and initial insigths", Psych Predicates in Romance Languages, Düsseldorf, Germany, 20–22.09.2023