CV – Hannah Booth

PhD Student | Department of Linguistics and English Language | University of Manchester

2015-present | PhD in Linguistics | University of Manchester

Thesis title: Expletives in Icelandic: a diachronic study.
Supervisors: Prof. Kersti Börjars; Dr. Tine Breban
Keywords: Generative syntax; language change; historical corpora; Icelandic; expletives; quasi-arguments.

2014-15 | MLitt Scandinavian Studies (Viking & Medieval Studies) | University of Aberdeen

Class awarded: Distinction
Thesis title: Creating Coherence: a study of Old Norse connectives.
Selected taught modules: Advanced Old Norse language & literature; Runic; Medieval Latin; Paleography.

2010-14 | BA (Hons) Modern & Medieval Languages | Magdalene College | University of Cambridge

Class awarded: I
Dissertation 1 title: The fate of the instrumental case in the history of German.
Dissertation 2 title: Low German in Scandinavia: A study of language contact in Hanseatic Bergen.
Selected taught modules: Germanic philology (including Old Norse, Old High German, Gothic, Old English); Old Norse language & literature; history of the German language; phonetics, phonology & morphology.

2015-18 Arts & Humanities Research Council Doctoral Training Award.
2015-18 University of Manchester President’s Doctoral Scholar Award.
July 2017 AHRC Northwest Consortium Overseas Conference Grant.
July 2016 AHRC Northwest Consortium Student Development Grant.
July 2014 International Summer School full scholarship, University of Oslo.
June 2014 D.H Green Prize, Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge.
June 2014 Peskett Prize for Modern & Medieval Languages, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.

September 2017 – present Participant in the project ‘Constraints on syntactic variation: noun phrases in early Germanic languages’.
January – April 2014 Research support worker on the project ‘Corpus of Historical Low German’.

2016 | Summer School in Modern Icelandic | University of Iceland & the Árni Magnússon Institute

2014 | International Summer School | University of Oslo

2012-13 | Berlin Humboldt University

2 semesters as an Erasmus exchange student.
Taught modules: Historical linguistics; Middle High German language; Modern Norwegian language; Modern Icelandic language.

2016 – present | Co-organiser of the annual Manchester Forum in Linguistics | University of Manchester

2016-17 | Teaching Assistant Representative | Department of Linguistics & English Language | University of Manchester

2016 – present | Founding member of the project ‘SkillsSwap’ | University of Manchester

I am part of a small entrepreneurial team of PhD students developing a new online platform to facilitate skill-sharing between postgraduate researchers.
Since our initial idea in early 2016, we have successfully gained funding for the project from the Manchester Doctoral College at the University of Manchester.
A pilot version of the website is now up and running…

2015 – present | Proofreader (freelance)

2013-14 | Language Ambassador | University of Cambridge Language Centre

Ran events in conjunction with local schools to promote language learning amongst secondary school pupils as part of the nationwide Routes into Languages scheme.