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Addison BLANCHARD-ROONEY


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addison-james.blanchard-rooney@cnrs.fr

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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.


PERCORSO PROFESSIONALE


 

    PhD
    Thesis: The language dynamics of Eurasia in space and time.
    Supervision: Matthias Urban
    Université Lumière Lyon 2; CNRS
    Since April 2025

 

    Master of Arts (MA)
    Linguistics
    Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
    Apr. 2022 - Feb. 2025

 

    Double Bachelor of Arts (BA)
    Linguistics and Geography with Minor in Russian
    Ruhr-Universität Bochum
    Oct. 2018 - Oct. 2021

 

    Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
    University of Oregon
    Jul. 2025

 

SETTORI DI RICERCA


 

General linguistics

 

Linguistic typology

 

Morphosyntax (esp. valence-changing operations)

 

Language geography (Eurasia)

 

ATTIVITÀ AMMINISTRATIVE


 

Café Doctorant•e
Organization of (bi)monthly PhD workshops.
Since Oct. 2025

 

LAVORO DI CAMPO


 

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

 

PARTICIPAZIONE A PROGETTI


 

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

 

CORSI


 

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

 

PRINCIPALE PUBBLICAZIONE E COMUNICAZIONE
MOSTRARE LA VERSIONE ESTESA / VERSIONE RIDOTTA


Tesi di dottorato
 

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


Capitoli in libri
 

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


Altre congressi
 

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




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