Dr V. (Viktorija) Kostadinova

Faculty of Humanities

Capaciteitsgroep Engelse taal en cultuur

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Spuistraat 134
Room number: 5.39

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Postbus 1641
1000 BP Amsterdam

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Teaching and supervision
I teach a range of BA courses in the English Language and Culture and Linguistics programmes and the MA elective course Topics in Sociolinguistics. Below is a list of courses I am currently teaching.
I am available to supervise BA and MA thesis on a range of topics in English linguistics, with a preference for sociolinguistic and corpus-linguistic approaches. Please email me to discuss possible topics.
Publications
2020

Kostadinova, V. (2020). Examining the Split Infinitive: Prescriptivism as a Constraint in Language Variation and Change. In D. Chapman, & J. D. Rawlins (Eds.), Language Prescription: Values, Ideologies and Identity (pp. 95-120). (Multilingual Matters; Vol. 170). Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788928380 [details]

2018

Kostadinova, V. (2018). Attitudes to usage vs. actual language use: The case of literally in American English. English Today, 34(4), 29–38. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078418000366 [details]

Kostadinova, V. (2018). Correcting English: Josephine Turck Baker (1873–1942) and the early American usage guide tradition. In L. Pillière, W. Andrieu, V. Kerfelec, & D. Lewis (Eds.), Standardising English: Norms and Margins in the History of the English Language (pp. 171–190). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108120470.009 [details]

Kostadinova, V. (2018). Usage Problems in American English. In I. Tieken-Boon van Ostade (Ed.), English Usage Guides: History, Advice, Attitudes (pp. 155–176). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808206.003.0010 [details]

2015

Tieken-Boon van Ostade, I., & Kostadinova, V. (2015). Have went – an American usage problem. English Language and Linguistics, 19(2), 293–312.
2020

Kostadinova, V. (2020). English Language. General. The Year's Work in English Studies, 99, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maaa001 [details]

2019

Kostadinova, V. (2019). English Language. General. The Year's Work in English Studies, 98, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maz004 [details]

2015

Kostadinova, V. (2015). Literally, too big a fuss about nothing. English Today, 31(2), 3–4. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078415000036

Kostadinova, V. (2015). Microsoft Grammar and Style Checker (‘Consider Revising’). English Today, 31(4), 3–4. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078415000322
2018

Kostadinova, V. (2018). Language prescriptivism: Attitudes to usage vs. actual language use in American English.
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