This PhD position is funded by the SFB 1718 “Common Ground”

Since October 2025, I’ve been a PhD student looking at evidential uses of tense morphology in French, as part of a larger project on Romance evidentials headed by Dr Paula Menéndez Benito. This work is itself part of the larger SFB 1718: Common Ground.

My route to linguistics was a little circuitous: my first degree was an MPhysPhil in Physics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford, awarded in 2016. After several years of working in a bookshop in London, I started my MA in English Linguistics here in Tübingen, finishing in 2024.

My research interests are (very) broadly semantics, pragmatics, and how they fit together. I’m especially interested in how far a formal compositional approach can take us in both. While my current work concerns French, my MA thesis was on biscuit conditional questions in English. Aside from linguistics, I worked as a peer tutor at the Research and Writing Center while I was a student here, and have taught an academic writing course for first semester students.