Rania Khanoub
Chair of English Linguistics
Research associates
Address
Bismarckstraße 891054 ErlangenRoom: 00.107, Floor: 00
Contact
Consultation Hours
Friday: 12:00 – 13:00 Please reach out by e-mail beforehand.
Research Interests and PhD Focus
My research interests lie in how language evolves through the interplay of everyday use and cognitive processes, blending historical linguistics, syntax, and corpus methods. For my PhD, I’m exploring syntactic change in English, with a focus on Noun Phrases (NPs), using corpora and a Usage-based Cognitive Construction Grammar approach. I want to understand how these constructions form, stabilize, and shift over time – and why these patterns matter for both language history and broader linguistic theory.
Education
| 2024 | M.A. English and American Studies M.A. thesis: The impact of online communication on everyday language: how social media changes linguistic subcultures | Friedrich Schiller University, Jena |
| 2021 | M.A. Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching | Mohammed V University, Rabat (Morocco) |
| 2019 | B.A. English Studies B.A. thesis: Subject-verb agreement among Moroccan EFL learners | Mohammed V University, Rabat (Morocco) |