Tjorven Halves, M.A.
Research Assistant
PhD Student
My research interests are World Englishes, grammatical and sociolinguistic variation, and learner English, using mainly corpus linguistic and quantitative approaches. My PhD project will be situated in the World Englishes field; its current working title is “Adjective Comparison Strategies across World Englishes“.
Curriculum Vitae
2024 - present Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft)
Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs,University of Bonn
2023 - 24 Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft)
Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs, University of Hamburg
2023 - 2024 Academic Tutor
Prof. Dr. Eva Berlage, University of Hamburg
2022 - 2023 Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft), Digital and Data Literacyin Teaching Lab
University of Hamburg
2022 - 2022 Student Assistant (Studentische Hilfskraft)
Franz Vergöhl, HafenCity, University Hamburg
2019 - 2019 Peer Tutor
Institute of English and American Studies, University of Hamburg
2022 - 2024 M.A. English as a World Language, University of Hamburg
2018 - 2022 B.A. English and American Studies, University of Hamburg
2021 - 2021 Study abroad, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Feb. 2024, Scholarship for the preparation of an M.A. thesis, Karl H. Ditze Förderung
Jul 2022, Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab grant for student-led research
projects, University of Hamburg
Jun 2021, University of Hamburg Partnership Scholarship Stipend, Temple University
Jan 2021, Hamburglobal Scholarship, University of Hamburg
Presentations
Halves, T. (2024). The Comparative Alternation in World Englishes. Thirteenth Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference (BAELc13), Bonn, Germany.
Halves, T., Kang, J., Schilling, J., & Fuchs, R. (2023). Comparing Indian and British COVID-19 Discourse. IAWE 25, the 25th conference of the International Association of World Englishes, Stony Brook, NY, USA.