Academic & Teaching staff

Dr Sabina Grahek

Teaching Fellow in Linguistics

Dr Sabina Grahek

Research interests

  • Theoretical syntax
  • Syntax-semantics interface
  • Reflexivity
  • Unaccusativity
  • Middles
  • Slovene / Slovenian

Current research includes a corpus-based investigation of agentive phrases in Slovene middle and passive constructions. Sabina is not available for postgraduate supervision.

Undergraduate teaching 2011-12

LING1060 Language Projects (module leader) See description
LING1070 Linguistics 1 (lecturer)
LING2340 Syntax (tutor)
LING3030 Syntactic Theory (module leader) See description

Other positions within the School

Guest lecturer on Academic English for Postgraduate Studies (AEPS), Language Centre (Lecture title: "DIY Academic Phrasebank")

Self-Access Deputy Supervisor, Language Centre

External position

External Examiner for Slovene, University of Nottingham, 2011-present

Biography

Education

PhD in Linguistics, University of Leeds
MA in Linguistics and Language Corpora, University of Leeds
BA in English and Slovene, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Job experience

  • Teaching Fellow, University of Leeds, Linguistics and Phonetics, 2011-present
  • Self-Access Deputy Supervisor, University of Leeds, Language Centre, 2007-present
  • Teaching Assistant, University of Leeds, Linguistics and Phonetics, 2001-2011
  • Slovene Lectrice, University of Nottingham, Dept of Russian and Slavonic Studies, 1997-2000

Selected publications

Grahek, S. (2009) Internal causation in Slovene: constructions with the morpheme se and Experiencer datives. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 14: 16-48. Full text

Grahek, S. (2008) Middles in Slovene. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 13: 44-75. Full text

Grahek, S. (2005) Reflexivity and argument-demotion marking in Slovene. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 10: 40-79. Full text

Grahek, S. (2003) Slovene morpheme se. Papers in Linguistics from the University of Manchester (PLUM). Proceedings of the 12th Manchester Postgraduate Conference: 109-121.

Grahek, S. (2002) Alternating unaccusative verbs in Slovene. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 9: 57-72. Full text