Wall, dr. J. H. (Joanna)

Joanna Wall (1991) is a historical linguist at the Meertens Institute. Joanna studied Modern and Medieval Languages (French and German, BA Hons) at Oxford University, a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Modern Foreign Languages) at University College London, and Linguistics (RMA) at Utrecht University. After this, she did both historical and theoretic linguistic research in Prof. Marjo van Koppen and Prof. Feike Dietz’s project Language Dynamics in the Dutch Golden Age at Utrecht University and the Meertens Institute, and obtained a PhD for her dissertation Towards a label-less grammar.

At the Meertens Institute, she focuses on variation and change in historical Dutch from an interdisciplinary perspective. Previously, Joanna worked as the postdoc in the project Information Management as a Factor for Syntactic Variation in the History of German from the SFB 1102 Information Density and Linguistic Encoding at the Saarland University and was earlier a lecturer at University College Roosevelt, Leiden University and Utrecht University.