Haykanush Sazhumyan
Haykanush Sazhumyan, M.A.
PhD Student, Research Assistant & Lecturer
English Linguistics | Chair of Prof. Kortmann
haykanush.sazhumyan@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
+49 761 203-3328
R 4221 | KG IV
Office Hours: Please arrange an appointment in advance via email.
CV
Haykanush Sazhumyan is a Ph.D. student, research assistant, and lecturer at the English Department of the University of Freiburg (chair Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Bernd Kortmann). She holds a B.A. in American, English, and German Studies from the University of Würzburg and an M.A. in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Freiburg. Her research interests revolve around psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, multilingualism, construction grammar, and grammaticalization. In her PhD dissertation, she investigates modality from a cross-linguistic perspective, combining data-driven experimental evidence (e.g., eye-tracking and self-paced reading studies) with theoretical frameworks from Construction Grammar.
EDUCATION
April 2024 – present Ph.D. | University of Freiburg English Department, Linguistics
Dissertation title: Processing Modality from a Constructionist Perspective: A Cross-Linguistic Study
October 2021 – February 2024 M.A. (with honors) | University of Freiburg
English Department, Major: English Language and Linguistics
TEACHING
2025/26 Winter Term
HS/MS Multilingualism from Psycho- and Neurolinguistic Perspectives
Ü Doing Linguistics
PUBLICATIONS
- Forker, Diana, Sazhumyan, Haykanush & Alice Blumenthal-Dramé. (in review). Approaching word order in Georgian, Armenian and Russian combining Corpus and Psycholinguistic perspectives.
- Sazhumyan, Haykanush & Alice Blumenthal-Dramé. 2025. The effects of aspect on meaning interpretation in the online and offline processing of modal constructions. Cognitive Linguistics 36(3), 473-497. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2025-0095
- Domene Moreno, Christina, Kabak, Bariş & Haykanush Sazhumyan. Crosslinguistic differences in the mapping of prominence between music and language. Poster presented at the 3rd International Conference “Prominence in Language”. University of Cologne, Germany. 02-03/06/2022.