Maria Flaksman
.ical

Research assistant and PostDoc at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Dep. Anglistik and Amerikanistik, Historical Linguistics and Medieval Literature), an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow; in 2015 defended the doctoral thesis ‘Diachronic development of English imitative vocabulary’ at the University of St. Petersburg; in 2017/18 studied Icelandic as a second language and Old Norse at the University of Iceland; author of the ‘Dictionary of English imitative words on historical principles’; the author and the chief coordinator of the Iconicity Atlas Project (http://www.iconicity-atlas.com).

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Affiliation –

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

 Interests –

etymology, iconicity, onomatopoeia, Germanic languages, historical-comparative linguistics, language universals, typology, psycholinguistics

Sessions

04-13
17:30
90min
Poster Session
Hans Van de Velde, Thomas Schmidt, Maria Flaksman, Péter Jeszenszky, Melissa Schuring, Eline Zenner, Jan Gorisch, Adrian Leemann, Melanie Studerus, Carina Steiner, Sandra Widmer Beierlein, Robert Lange, Gintare Gelunaite-Malinauskiene, Maike Rocker, Christine Graeppi, Maggie Bullock, Francesca Nicora, Agnes Kim, Ljubica Leone, Bianca Sell, Anca-Diana Bibiri, Lorea Unamuno Goiriena, Martin Fuchs, Chiara Meluzzi, Christian Paga, Gorka Basterretxea Santiso, Berta Badia-Barrera, Wilbert Heeringa, Cesko Voeten, Mihaela Mocanu, Paz González, Maria Schinko, Lea Bauernfeind, Raoul Buurke, Nantke Pecht, Anne-France Pinget

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Parallels in historical development of English, Icelandic, and Russian onomatopoeic words
Maria Flaksman
Poster Session