Tjorven Halves, M.A.
Research Assistant
PhD Student
My research interests are World Englishes, grammatical and sociolinguistic variation, and learner English. In my work, I mainly use corpus linguistic and quantitative approaches.
My PhD project is on the role of English in Northeast India. I aim to determine how dimensions of social variation and dominant language constellations affect the region’s spoken English variety. Results can shed light on the use of English in this highly multilingual region of India and demonstrate how the integration of quantitative corpus analysis with extensive speaker metadata can contribute to the study of variation in world Englishes.
Curriculum Vitae
2025 - present Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)
DFG project “English as a local lingua franca in the multilingual ecology of Northeast India”
Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs, University of Bonn
2024 - 2025 Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft)
Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs,University of Bonn
2023 - 24 Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft)
Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs, University of Hamburg
2023 - 2024 Academic Tutor
Prof. Dr. Eva Berlage, University of Hamburg
2022 - 2023 Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft), Digital and Data Literacyin Teaching Lab
University of Hamburg
2022 - 2022 Student Assistant (Studentische Hilfskraft)
Franz Vergöhl, HafenCity, University Hamburg
2019 - 2019 Peer Tutor
Institute of English and American Studies, University of Hamburg
2022 - 2024 M.A. English as a World Language, University of Hamburg
2018 - 2022 B.A. English and American Studies, University of Hamburg
2021 - 2021 Study abroad, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Feb. 2024, Scholarship for the preparation of an M.A. thesis, Karl H. Ditze Förderung
Jul 2022, Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab grant for student-led research
projects, University of Hamburg
Jun 2021, University of Hamburg Partnership Scholarship Stipend, Temple University
Jan 2021, Hamburglobal Scholarship, University of Hamburg
Presentations
Fuchs, R. & Halves, T. (2025). Introducing the Corpus of Historical Indian English. 8th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 8), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Halves, T. (2025). The Comparative Alternation across World Englishes. International Association for World Englishes (IAWE 26), Giessen, Germany.
Halves, T. (2025). A Multifactorial Analysis of the Comparative Alternation across World Englishes. International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 46), Vilnius, Lithuania.
Halves, T. (2025). Adjective comparison strategies across different varieties of English. 5th Nachwuchstagung Englische Linguistik (NEL-5), Giessen, Germany.
Halves, T. (2024). The Comparative Alternation in World Englishes. Thirteenth Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference (BAELc13), Bonn, Germany.
Halves, T., Kang, J., Schilling, J., & Fuchs, R. (2023). Comparing Indian and British COVID-19 Discourse. IAWE 25, the 25th conference of the International Association of World Englishes, Stony Brook, NY, USA.