Natalia Levshina - Curriculum Vitae#

• 2019 Habilitation in General and English Linguistics, Leipzig University. Dissertation “Towards a Theory of Communicative Efficiency in Human Languages.”
  
• 2007 - 2011 PhD in Linguistics. University of Leuven. Dissertation “Doe wat je niet laten kan [Do what you cannot let]]: A usage-based study of Dutch causative constructions.”
  
• 2006 Candidate's degree, Saint Petersburg State University (Department of General, Social and Psycholinguistics). Dissertation “Indirect Speech Tactics in Pre-Election Discourse.”
  
• 1995 - 2000 Pskov Pedagogical University, Russia. Teacher of English and German, with high distinction

• 2023 - now Assistant Professor of Communication and Computational Methods, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  
• 2019 - 2023 Postdoctoral researcher at the Neurobiology of Language Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
  
• 2016 - 2019 Postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-funded project “Grammatical Universals”, headed by Martin Haspelmath. Leipzig University, Germany
  
• 2013 - 2015 Postdoctoral researcher at the F.R.S.-FNRS – Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  
• 2012 - 2013 Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Marburg, Germany
  
• 2012 Research fellow at the University of Jena, Germany

• 2023 - now Editorial board member, journal Cognitive Linguistics (De Gruyter Mouton)
  
• 2021 - now Editorial board member, journal Language Dynamics and Change (Brill)
  
• 2020 - now Consulting editor, Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences (De Gruyter Mouton)
  
• 2019 - now Statistics consultant, journal English Language and Linguistics (Cambridge University Press)
  
• 2013 - now Associate editor, Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs series (De Gruyter Mouton)

• August 2024 Belo Horizonte, Brazil. “Communicative efficiency in human languages and beyond”. 6th Plenary lecture at the 7th International Symposium on Functional Linguistics (SILF)
  
• June 2024 Vigo, Spain. “Communicative efficiency, language variation and processing”, plenary lecture at the 6th conference on Variation and Language Processing (VALP6)
  
• May 2024 Taipei, Taiwan. “Communicative efficiency in human languages and beyond”. Plenary lecture at the 11th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC 11). National Taiwan University
  
• March 2022 Erfurt, Germany/online. “Communicative efficiency: typological, corpus-based and experimental evidence”. Plenary lecture at the 9th conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, University of Erfurt
  
• Sept. 2021 Bertinoro, Italy. “Corpora for cross-linguistic comparison: opportunities and challenges”. Plenary lecture at the 6th UCCTS (Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies) conference, University of Bologna

• 2024 - 2026 Member of the Advisory Board of the Czech National Corpus
  
• 2021 - 2023 Deputy Equality Officer at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics