Annemarie Verkerk

My research interests include linguistic typology, historical linguistics, cross-linguistic semantics and pragmatics, and anthropological linguistics.

For my PhD, I am investigating the encoding of motion events with evolutionary models in order to understand how these systems have developed. Currently I am looking at the Indo-European language family.

In order to investigate motion events in Indo-European I am building a parallel corpus of translations of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there' by Lewis Carroll and 'O Alquimista' by Paulo Coelho. I'm currently investigating motion event encoding in the following languages: English, Dutch, German, Swedish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, Irish, Breton, Russian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Albanian, Armenian, Greek, Latin, Hindi, Nepali, Marathi, Assamese, Persian, and Kurdish.

If you are interested in my work and would like to get in touch, do not hesitate to do so. If you want to collaborate on the description of motion events in any of these languages, please get in touch as well!