EDUCATION:

October 2013-January 2014: LGFG completion scholarship (scholarship as per the State Law on Graduate Funding), Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg

October 2009-September 2013: PhD grantee, Research Training Group "Frequency effects in language" DFG 1624/1, Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg

2006 - 2008 : Master of Arts in European Linguistics, Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Final grade: very good - 1,4 (Best grade: 1,0)

1999 - 2003 : Diplom, Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies, Specialization: English, French and Romanian, University of Craiova, Romania, Final grade: very good - 9,80 (Best grade: 10,00)


PUBLICATIONS:

Trasca, Luminita. In preparation. "Proper noun + temporal noun constructions in English". In: Linguaculture 4 (1) 2014, Iasi: A.I.Cuza University Press.

Ghiviriga, Teodora and Luminita Trasca. In preparation. "Constructions in crisis: A corpus-based study of crisis collocates in Romanian newspaper language."

Trasca, Luminita. submitted, to appear 2014. "Bottom-up". In: Kortmann, Bernd (ed). Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK 11): Sprachtheorien und Methodenlehre, de Gruyter (see https://www.degruyter.com/view/db/wsk?rskey=9dT3FW&result=1&q=wsk)

Trasca, Luminita. submitted, to appear 2014. "Metalinguistics". In: Kortmann, Bernd (ed). Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK 11): Sprachtheorien und Methodenlehre, de Gruyter (see https://www.degruyter.com/view/db/wsk?rskey=9dT3FW&result=1&q=wsk)

Trasca, Luminita. 2012. "Noun + noun constructions in written Romanian: what do escrocii internet, tribunalul Timis and presedintele SIF have in common?". In: Linguaculture 3 (2), Iasi: A.I.Cuza University Press.

Trasca, Luminita. 2010. "Pinning down ongoing language change". In: E. B. Sphonix-Rust & B. Burgos Cuadrillero & A. M. Iglesias Botrán (Ed.): XXV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas. 10-12 March, 2010; Valladolid, Spain: Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas, pp. 973-983.

Trasca, Luminita. 2008. How to say more with less: A corpus-based diachronic study of information density in written English. M.A. Thesis. Freiburg im Breisgau: Albert-Ludwig Universität Freiburg, 97 pages.


TALKS:

8 February 2012 : "My contribution to the 'RTG Frequency effects in language'," Colloquium of the GRK 1624/1 "Frequency effects in language," Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg.

21 December 2011 : "Ongoing language change in the Romanian NP: 'pagina web' or 'pagina de web'," Colloquium of the GRK 1624/1 "Frequency effects in language," Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg.

1 July 2010 : (Poster) "Noun + noun constructions in Romanian: Language-internal drift or contact-induced language change?," Ceremonial opening of the GRK DFG 1624/1, Peterhofkeller, Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg.

23 June 2010 : "Text types, discourse traditions, style and quantitative analyses", with Philipp Dankel and Malte Rosemeyer, Colloquium of the GRK 1624/1 "Frequency effects in language," Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg.

9 June 2010 : "Schematicity and analogy in phonology, morphology and morphosyntax," with Péter Rácz and Karin Madlener, Colloquium of the GRK 1624/1 "Frequency effects in language," Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg.

10 March 2010 : "Pinning down ongoing language change," XXV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas, 10-12 March 2010, Valladolid, Spain.

4 February 2010 : "Information densification in English and Romanian written styles: Introducing the project," Colloquium of the GRK 1624/1 "Frequency effects in language," Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg.

12 December 2008 : "How to say more with less: the case of complex noun phrases," at the 'Corpora and the History of English: ARCHER 3 and beyond' Workshop, FRIAS, Freiburg.

30 May 2008 : "Compression of Information in Written English: A Corpus-Based Study of Diachronic Trends in the 20th Century," JASGIL 2008 (Joint Advanced Seminar Group in Linguistics): "Constructions, Cognition, Culture." Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1 October 2006 - 30 September 2009 : Technical research assistant, Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, English Department, DFG Project - Emeritus Prof. Dr. Hildegard L.C. Tristram (see http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/angl/Englisches_Seminar/Lehrstuehle/Tristram)

1 February 2007 - 30 September 2009 : Technical research assistant, Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, English Department, Chair Prof. Dr. Christian Mair (see http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/ angl/Englisches_Seminar/Lehrstuehle/LS_Mair)

1 October 2009 - 30 November 2009 : Technical research assistant, Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, English Department, Prof. Dr. Richard Matthews (see http://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/seminar/abteilungen/Sprachpraxis/staff_profiles/richard_matthews)

2003 - 2004 : freelancer translator (English, French, Romanian, Greek). Craiova, Romania.