Theocharis Tzimas

About Me

I am a doctoral researcher in the Research Training Group “Dimensions of Constructional Space” at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg. My research interests fall within the sphere of Diachronic Cognitive Linguistics and Historical (Socio)linguistics. In other words, I’m interested in how language varies within a community historically and how certain phenomena evolve (grammaticalize or disappear) within different sociohistorical contexts. In my dissertation, I am applying this line of thought on subject-inversion for finite verbs in Early Modern English (17th and 18th century) (project 7). Other interests include Corpus Linguistics, Digital Humanities and Science Communication.

 

Conferences

The Northern Subject Rule in low-class Pre-Modern Scotland. U-Lang. Utrecht, The Netherlands, 5 May 2025 (poster).

The Northern Subject Rule in low-class Pre-Modern Scotland: On existentials and constraint strength. 77th Studentischen Tagung Sprachwissenschaft / Student Conference on Linguistics. Leipzig, 3-5 May 2025 (presentation).

The Indo-European Background of Greece and Albania observed through the areas’ hydronymic and toponymic evidence. Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain XV (ULAB XV) 2025. London, UK, 10-12 April 2025 (presentation).

 

Publications

Gordon, M. S. & Tzimas, T. [In press]. Exploring annotation methods through a case study of morphosyntactic variation in 18th and 19th- Century Scottish Pauper Letters. In A. Auer and M. Schiegg (Eds.), West Germanic Language Histories ‘from Below’: New Data Sources and Approaches. John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Tzimas, T. (2025). Grammaticalization and Cognition: A look at the periphrastic past in Catalan and its theoretical effect on culture and cognition. Leiden Elective Academic Periodical 5. Leiden University.