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Kim-Kristin Droste, M.Ed.
Anglistik
Neuer Graben 40
49069 Osnabrück
Raum: 41/121a
Tel.: +49 541 969-4067
E-Mail: kim-kristin.droste@uni-osnabrueck.de
Sprechzeiten: nach Vereinbarung
Lehrveranstaltungen
Wintersemester 2025/26
Sommersemester 2025
Lebenslauf
Professional background
Since 10/2022: Research associate and lecturer at the department of English Linguistics at Osnabrück University (chair: Prof. Dr. Alexander Bergs)
10/2017-09/2022: Student research assistant and student teaching assistant at the departments of English Linguistics, German Linguistics, and English Literary and Cultural Studies at Osnabrück University
09/2015-10/2019: Translator (German/English), CargoSoft
Education
Since 10/2022: Doctorate at the department of English Linguistics at Osnabrück University (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alexander Bergs), working title: Locative prefixoids from a Construction Morphology perspective
10/2020-09/2022: Master of Education (M.Ed.) for Secondary Teacher Education (Gymnasium) in English and German, Osnabrück University
09/2018-01/2019: English Studies (Erasmus), University of Hull
10/2016-09/2020: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) for Secondary Teacher Education (Gymnasium) in English and German, Osnabrück University
Certificates and further education
2025: Certificate "Hochschuldidaktische Qualifizierung" (Qualification in Higher Education Didactics), awarded by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hochschuldidaktik (dghd)
2025: Certificate "Python for Beginners", openHPI (Hasso Plattner Institut)
2025: Certificate Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi Level 3 (HSK3, Chinese Proficiency Test)
2023: TYPO3 training for authors and admins
2023: Certificate "Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis", openHPI (Hasso Plattner Institut)
09/2023: Participation in the Corpus Linguistics Summer School (University of Birmingham)
03/2023: Participation in the Grenoble Winter School in Cognitive Linguistics (Autrans, France)
Grants and awards
2025: Nominated for "Hans Mühlenhoff-Preis für gute akademische Lehre" (Hans-Mühlenhoff Prize for Good Academic Teaching)
2025: Nominated for "Fachbereichspreis für exzellente Lehre" (Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching)
2024: Travel Grant for “Challenging Construction Grammar: New insights from morphology”, in Ascona, Switzerland, awarded by CIPL (Comité International Permanent des Linguistes), 500€
2024: Best presentation award (2nd place) at “Challenging Construction Grammar: New insights from morphology”, 250 CHF
2024: Funding for conference travel (ICCG13, Gothenburg) by Universitätsgesellschaft Osnabrück e.V.
2023: Funding for conference travel (ICCG12, Prague University; ICLC16, Düsseldorf University) by Universitätsgesellschaft Osnabrück e.V.
2023: Funding for conference travel (Grenoble Winter School in Cognitive Linguistics) by Institut Universitaire de France, Université Grenoble Alpes, Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive
Conference organization
08/2026: 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Osnabrück University (with Alexander Bergs, Lara Höttecke, Meike Pentrel), https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2026/
03/2026: 23. Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende (STaPs), Osnabrück University (with Lara Höttecke), https://staps.stuts.eu/23-staps-osnabrueck/
10/2025: Minerva-Symposium: Crossing Boundaries, Constructing Bridges: Grammar, Cognition, Interaction, Osnabrück University (with Alexander Bergs, Lara Höttecke, Meike Pentrel)
09/2024: 10th International Conference of the German Linguistics Association, with a pre-conference workshop for PhD students, Osnabrück University (with Marie-Christine Benen, Alexander Bergs, Lara Höttecke, Meike Pentrel), https://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/dgkl2024
Academic self-government
Since 08/2024: Board member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kognitive Linguistik (DGKL) / German Cognitive Linguistics Association (GCLA)
Since 04/2024: Elected member and Chair of the promos council at Osnabrück University
Since 04/2023: Elected member and Chair (since 04/2024) of the Faculty Student Council (PhD Student Representative Committee / Fachschaftsrat Promotion) at Osnabrück University
04/2024-03/2028: Elected member of the Executive Board of Department 7 (School of Language and Literary Studies)
07/2023-06/2025: Member of the University Arbitration Board for Conflict During PhD Studies
Memberships
Since 2025: Member of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (isLE)
Since 2024: Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kognitive Linguistik/German Cognitive Linguistics Association (DGKL/GCLA)
Since 2024: Member of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE)
Arbeitsschwerpunkte und Forschung
Research interests:
Construction Morphology, Construction Grammar, Cognitive Linguistics, usage-based theory, corpus linguistics
Publikationen
Publications
Droste, Kim-Kristin (2025). Constructing a hierarchical network of prefixal up from a Construction Morphology perspective. English Language and Linguistics, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674325100555
Droste, Kim-Kristin & Lara Höttecke (in print). Creativity in Language Change. In Petar Milin (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 3rd edn. Elsevier. Vorab verfügbar im Reference Module in Social Sciences: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00762-6
Talks and presentations
Droste, Kim-Kristin (2025). An overview of locative prefixoids: Modelling directional antonyms in a constructional network. 8th International Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (iSLE) (University of Santiago de Compostela), 01.-04.09.2025.
Droste, Kim-Kristin (2025). Understanding and out-organizing: Identifying taxonomic relations between morphological constructions through collostructional analysis and clustering methods. 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) (University of Bordeaux), 01.-04.09.2025.
Droste, Kim-Kristin (2025). Construction Morphology and a relational structure approach to morphosemantics: An acceptability judgment survey (poster presentation). 14th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (University of Zadar), 12.-14.06.2025.
Droste, Kim-Kristin (2024). My upenergy brother: Constructional productivity and acceptability ratings of neologisms. 10th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (DGKL) (Osnabrück University), 04.-06.09.2024.
Droste, Kim-Kristin (2024). The semantics of complex words with locative prefixoids through the lens of syntactic paraphrases. 13th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG) (University of Gothenburg), 26.-28.08.2024.
Droste, Kim-Kristin (2024). These words had my teeth on edge: Examining the role of morphological productivity in acceptability judgments of hapax legomena. Unraveling Linguistic Productivity (University of Gent), 21.-23.05.2024.
Droste, Kim-Kristin (2024). Downlifting. Distinguishing vertical and horizontal links in a network of antonymous morphological constructions. Challenging Construction Grammar: New insights from morphology (Ascona, Monte Verità), 08.-12.04.2024.
Droste, Kim-Kristin (2023). Modelling a network of morphological constructions with locative prefixoids on a micro-, meso- and macro-level. 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC) (University of Düsseldorf), 07.-11.08.2023.
Droste, Kim-Kristin (2023). Upheaval. Prefixal up and its many functions from a Construction Morphology perspective. 12th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG) (Prague University), 19.-21.05.2023.
Droste, Kim-Kristin (2023). Locative prefixoids from a Construction Morphology perspective: Approaches to the semantic analysis of morphological constructions. 20. Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende (STaPs) (online), 24.-26.02.2023.
Droste, Kim-Kristin (2023). Downlifting. Lokative Präfixoide aus konstruktionsmorphologischer Perspektive. Linguistisches Kolloquium (Osnabrück University), 24.01.2023.
