Curriculum Viate

Dr. phil. Benjamin Lowell Sluckin

Publications, Theses, & Talks

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Employment:

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2018-present,
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (100%)
Ruhr-Universität Bochum,
Germanistisches Institut,
Lehrstuhl für germanistische Linguistik
Sprachgeschichte/historische Linguistik

In English: Lecturer (non-tenured), at Chair of German and historical linguistics, German Dept., Ruhr-University Bochum)

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2016-2018,
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (65%) (Doctoral Research associate)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
Research Unit for (experimental) Syntax and Heritage Languages
Linguistics section of the English Department

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* Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter is a vague catch-all term of employment in German academia without a single translation. It can have zero teaching or 8/9 hours per week involved. It can include research only or teaching only contracts. I have thus tried to give as accurate English translations as possible, given that I have both research and teaching duties. Hence for Brtitish English, Lecturer is probably the best translation, while for American English, my position is equivalent to a non-tenure track asst. Prof.

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Education:

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2016-2021,
PhD in Linguistics, Humboldt Univeristy of Berlin
Thesis Non-canonical subjects and subject positions: locative inversion V2-violations, and feature inheritance
summa cum laude
Supervisors: Prof Artemis Alexiadou, Prof Eric Fuß (Bochum), Prof. David Willis (Jesus College, Oxford)

2015-2016
MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Class: Distinction, Bateman Scholar
Supervisor: Dr David Willis
Thesis: Exaptation across Grammatical Domains: Source Contexts, Mechanisms and Outcomes (high distinction)

2011-2015
B.A (Hons) in Middle Eastern and Modern European Languages,
The University of Manchester
Class: I with distinctions in spoken German and Arabic
Dissertation: Zurück in die Zukunft: a socio-historical linguistic account of the development of the future tense in German (Class:I)

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Skills:

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LaTeX (good)
HTML/CSS (good)
Python 2/3 (basic)
R (basic)
CorpusSearch (intermediate/good)

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Languages:

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Fluent (C1-2): English (native), German (C2), Italian (C1)
Intermediate (B1/B2): French, Arabic
Beginner (A1/A2): Modern Hebrew
Experience with older languages: Historical German, Historical English, Old Romance varieties, Classical Arabic

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Service:

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June 2022, Co-organiser of workshop "The Theory and Historical Development of Expletives" at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
February 2019, Co-organiser of conSOLE at Humboldt University of Berlin
June 2017, Organised workshop "Heads, Phrases, Ts and Nodes: Syntactic movement in the 21st Century" at Humboldt University of Berlin (with Artemis Alexiadou)

Reviewed for: International Journal of Bilingualism, Journal of Historical Syntax, Glossa, Isogloss, OUP, Sage Open, various conferences

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Teaching Experience:

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2020/21 Processes of Language Change; BA seminar, @ Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2020/21 Synchrone und diachrone Satzstruktur: Generative Ansätze -(synchronic and diacronic clause structure: Generative approches); BA seminar, @ Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2019/20 Historische Morphosyntax (Historical Morphosyntax); BA seminar, @ Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2018/19 Typologie: Sprachliche Variation (Typology: Language Variation); BA seminar, @ Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2018 - Diachronie (Diachrony); BA, Grundkurs/ Intro course, 2x every semester @ Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2018 Historical Syntax (of English); BA Seminar @ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2017/18 Processes of Language Change; Advanced BA Seminar @ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (with Jens Hopperdietzel)
2016 Guest lecture - Introduction to Syntax ' Diachronic syntax and negation'; BA level @ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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Honours:

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2016 - Bateman Scholar of Trinity Hall College, University of Cambridge
2015/16 - The Philological Society Masters Bursary, awarded to four outstanding young scholars in UK
2012/13 - The Walters scholarship for all round excellence, The University of Manchester, German studies department

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