CV
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Info
| name | Kitty Wenying Liu |
| summary | PhD student specialising in historical linguistics |
| wl399 (at) cam (dot) ac (dot) uk | |
| web | https://kitty-liu-wy.github.io |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2430-1203 |
Education
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2025.10 - Present Cambridge, UK
PhD - Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
University of Cambridge; Trinity Hall
- working on the diachrony of clause-chaining in Tibetic
- thesis supervised by Dr Marieke Meelen
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2023.10 - 2024.07 Cambridge, UK
MPhil by Thesis - Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
University of Cambridge; Selwyn College
- thesis on the historical morphophonology of verbs in Tibetic, supervised by Dr Marieke Meelen
- examined by Prof Nathan W. Hill (Trinity College Dublin) and Prof Bert Vaux (University of Cambridge), awarded Pass with No Corrections.
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2020.10 - 2023.06 Cambridge, UK
BA Hons - Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
University of Cambridge; Selwyn College
- interests incl. historical linguistics, theoretical linguistics, phonetics, language acquisition
- awarded with First Class degree
Awards
- 2025
- 2023
Training
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2025.09 Paris, France
International School in Linguistic Fieldwork ('Fieldling')
Paris universities and linguistic laboratories
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2025.06 Dublin, Ireland
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2023.04 Cambridge, UK
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2021.06 Leiden, Netherlands
Employment
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2023.03 - 2023.10 Cambridge, UK
Research Assistant on computational models for polysemy
University of Cambridge, Dept. Computer Sciecne
- data annotator for dependencies structures between different meanings of polysemous words
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2024.10 - 2026.01 London, UK
Research Assistant for AHRC project 'The Emergence of Egophoricity'
SOAS University
- corpus annotator for Classical Tibetan
- researching the grammaticalisation of 'ego' perspective markers
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2024.10 - Present Cambridge, UK
Undergraduate supervisor for Linguistics (BA Hons)
University of Cambridge, Dept. Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
- small-group teaching for undergraduate courses at intro and advanced level