Research interests

• Argument omission
• Syntax and information structure of World Englishes
• Usage-based Construction Grammar
• Machine learning in corpus linguistics

Academic CV

• October 2023 – February 2024: Lecturer at the Mathematical Institute for Machine Learning and Data Science (with Jun.-Prof. Dominik Stöger; KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
• since 2021: Research assistant und lecturer at the Department of English Linguistics (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
• 2020–2023: M.A. English and German Linguistics (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt). Thesis title: A Construction Grammar Approach to Null Subjects in Singapore English, Hong Kong English and British English.
• 2019–2020: Student assistant at the Department of English Linguistics (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
• 2017–2021: B.A. English and German Linguistics (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt). Thesis title: Left- and Right Dislocation in Singapore English: A Corpus-based Analysis.

Additional training in research methods and statistics

• September 2023: Corpus Linguistics Summer School, Centre for Corpus Research, University of Birmingham (Measuring keyness, topic modelling, computational modelling of corpus data)
• July 2024: Methods in Language Sciences, University of Ghent, Belgium (Multivariate data analysis)
• September 2024: Research Methods Summer School, University of Reading (An Introduction to Bayesian Mixed-effects Models)

Teaching and course materials

• Introduction to English Linguistics (BA)
• English Phonetics and Phonology (BA)
• Language Variation: Varieties of English around the World (BA)
• Language Variation: Empirical Approaches to Varieties of English around the World (BA)
• Statistics for Linguistics (MA)

The course materials for Empirical Approaches and Statistics for Linguistics are accessible via my GitHub repository.

Conference contributions

“Null subjects in Singapore English, Hong Kong English and British English: A Usage-based Construction Grammar Approach”. FJUEL23, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. 29 September 2023.

“Modelling argument omission: A cognitive and multivariate study of object null instantiation in English(es)”. ICAME45, Vigo, Spain. June 19, 2024.

Publications

Buskin, Vladimir. accepted. Definite Null Instantiation in English(es): A Usage-based Construction Grammar approach. Constructions and Frames.