Iverina Ivanova's blog

About me

Welcome to my homepage! My name is Iverina and I am a linguist
and an e-learning enthusiast!

Since October 2016 – Academic Associate (Wissenschafliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Institute for English and American Studies, Linguistics Department, Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.
October 2015 – September 2016 – English Language Tutor and Translator (English-Bulgarian, Bulgarian-English)

Academic Writing and Discourse Analysis (clausal coherence, types of cohesive relations, anaphora resolution)
Morphological processes (Compounding, Blending, Clipping, etc.)
Constituent Analysis on phrasal and clausal level
Syntactic characteristics of canonical and non-canonical clauses
E-Learning and Web Development for academic purposes

In progress: Discourse Analysis and Academic Genres.
Adjectival Compounds. A Comparative Approach.

The aim of the conducted research was to analyse the orthographic, phonological, morpho-syntactic and semantic characteristics of the adjectival compounds, as well as the criteria that distinguishes adjectival compounds from free combinations by comparing instances from two languages English and Bulgarian, which belong to two different language groups - West Germanic and South-Slavonic, respectively. The analysed instances unarguably come to show that adjectival compounds in English and in Bulgarian tend to demonstrate structural similarities and provide a ground for the belief that both languages move towards analiticity.

Since 2016 VisaS Project
I am currently participating in an interdisciplinary project aimed at improving the academic writing competences of the students! The final goal of the project is the development of a software that will assist both tutors and students in their academic writing experience!
My role includes: the collection and analysis of authentic academic essays provided voluntarily by students from various disciplines at the Institute for English and American Studies (IEAS); the collection of linguistic features such as connectives, anaphoric relations, etc.; the annotation of the essays using the Oxygen XML editor
The Oxygen XML Editor is a cross-platform software, which is designed for editing XML documents. The software will be used for the annotation of the pre-processed student essays. Within the editor, metadata will be attached to the original texts. This metadata will provide information about the various lexical, syntactic, semantic and discourse relations and processes present in the texts.The editor also comes with validation schemas, which will check whether the documents are in a proper XML form.

A web-based project on Adjectival Compounds.
The web-based project is a continuation of the conducted research on Adjectival Compounds (ACs). The research results are presented in the form of an e-unit, which includes data about the criteria that distinguish ACs from free cobinations, a comparison of the orthographic, phonological, morpho-syntactic and semantic characteristics of the English and Bulgarian ACs, and classification tables accompanied with examples from both languages; Bulgarian examples are accompanied with relevant translations, morphological analyses of the words, audio and video explanations. For the development of the e-unit, I made use of the following languages: html, css, jquery, php; and softwares: Camtasia Studio 8, GIMP 2, Smart Notebook 11. See the Lead-in and the Criteria in the E-Unit.