Dr Victoria Fendel

I completed an MA in Classical Greek and Ancient Near East Studies at the University of Basel (funded by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) before moving to the University of Oxford (Lady Margaret Hall) for my DPhil on language contact between post-classical Greek and Coptic (funded by a Clarendon Scholarship). Subsequently, I undertook an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (Peterhouse) with a focus on French linguistics (funded by the AHRC). For the past four years my research has been supported by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

         I am interested in language contact, syntax, especially the interface between syntax and semantics, and the application of general linguistic concepts to corpus languages. In June I joined Jonathan Prag’s Crossreads project, where I am conducting the markup of texts in the I.Sicily corpus.