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Lena Kaltenbach

(02/2020 – present)

Research Assistant, Chair of Anglistik IV, University of Mannheim

(05/2015 – 01/2020)

Student Research Assistant, Chair of Anglistik IV, University of Mannhein

Education

(08/2017 – 01/2020)

Master of Arts in Sprache und Kommunikation, University of Mannheim

(08/2013 – 07/2017)

Bachelor of Arts in Anglistik, University of Mannheim

(09/2015 – 06/2016)

Academic Year Abroad, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Seoul


Teaching Experience

Scholarships

Research Stays

Editorship

Skills and Expertise

Languages

Publications

Trips, C., Struik, T. & Kaltenbach L. (in prep). Language contact, bilingualism and code-switching. To be submitted to Glossa: Contact.

Struik, T. & Kaltenbach, L. (accepted). The results of contact: Tracing changes in resultativity encoding in the history of English in contact with Old French. Diachronica.

Trips, C., Struik, T. & Kaltenbach, L. (accepted). Language contact and language change. Contribution to International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition.

Kaltenbach, L., & Trips, C. (2020). Review of Hundt, Mollin & Pfenninger (2017),'The changing English language'. Journal of Historical Syntax4(7), 1-29.

Kaltenbach, L. (2020). The recipient passive in the history of EnglishMannheim papers in multilingualism, acquisition and change, 1(Student Edition), 73-112.

Talks

June 2025: Struik, T. & Kaltenbach, L. (2025). Per syntax ad semantics: The benefits of enriching the parsed corpora of historical English with lexical semantic annotation. Talk presented at ICAME 46, University of Vilnius.

June 2025: Kaltenbach, L.(2025) Where is Path in Old and Middle English Motion Events? Reframing the Debate on Path Expression. Talk presented at LELPGC 25, University of Edinburgh.

August 2023: Kaltenbach, L. (2023). Effects of translation in the syntactic realization of Recipient arguments in Middle English: Searching for unique items in translated and non-translated texts. Talk presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

July 2023: Struik, T., Kaltenbach, L., & Trips, C. (2023). The results of contact: tracing changes in resultativity encoding in Middle and early Modern English in contact with Old French. Talk presented at Diachronic Generative Syntax 24, Université Paris Cité.

Poster Presentations

May 2025: Karkaletsou, F., Piccione, M., Kaltenbach, L., Allen, S., Trips, C. , & Rainsford, T. (2025). Do bilinguals exit or exit out? Evidence on double-framing in French. Poster presented at Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF) 2025, Lille, France).

Datasets

May 2025: Struik, T., Kaltenbach, L. & Lang, S. Roots & Results (RoRe): A diachronic database of English verbal lexical semantics. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6HC93

Conferences Organized

June 2024**: Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS 25)** Co-organizer (with Carola Trips, Tara Struik, and Charles Yang) 25–30 June 2024, University of Mannheim (Project H3 of SILPAC)

Workshops Organized

September 2023: Co-organizer (with Alessia Cassarà, Mariapaola Piccione, and Tara Struik) ICHL 2023 workshop "New methods for old languages", Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.