Back to Lena Kaltenbach - Anglistik IV - Universität Mannheim
(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
(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
Seminar Leader:
Course Redesign:
Didactical Training:
Currently pursuing the Higher Education Didactic Certificate at the Center for Higher Education Didactics (HDZ), Baden-Württemberg, including the Fit-for-Teaching workshop series.
Teaching Resource:
Co-developed and utilized the Anglistik IV Toolbox at the Chair of Anglistik IV.
Supervision:
Co-supervision of bachelor’s thesis Language Change in Traditional Media Impact of Digitalisation on News
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 Syntax, 4(7), 1-29.
Kaltenbach, L. (2020). The recipient passive in the history of English. Mannheim papers in multilingualism, acquisition and change, 1(Student Edition), 73-112.
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.
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).
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
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)
September 2023: Co-organizer (with Alessia Cassarà, Mariapaola Piccione, and Tara Struik) ICHL 2023 workshop "New methods for old languages", Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.