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Additional Activities

<aside> <img src="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" alt="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Supervisor (small group teaching of undergraduate 2-6 students) for History and Varieties of English, Structures and Meanings, and Semantics and Pragmatics

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<aside> <img src="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" alt="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Organiser of the Semantics, Pragmatics and Philosophy Workgroup at the University of Cambridge

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<aside> <img src="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" alt="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Editor of the Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics Journal, 2022-present.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" alt="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Co-Organiser of a LATEXworkshop for the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Department at the University of Cambridge

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About Me

PhD student in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Prof Kasia Jaszczolt.

Open to collaboration- please get in touch!

Areas of Interest

Conceptual Engineering

Language Change

Sociolinguistics

Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary Disputes

Lexical Meaning

Publications

*indicates peer reviewed publications

*Haket, N and Daniels, R (forthcoming). BERT’s Conceptual Cartography: Mapping the Landscapes of Meaning
*Haket (forthcoming). Collaborative Conceptual Engineering: Philosophy and Linguistics. In Conceptual Engineering: Methodological and Metaphilosophical Issues (P.Stalmaszczyk, eds)
*Fonteyn, L., Manjavacas, E., Haket, N., Dorst, A. Kruijt, E. (2024). Could this be next for corpus linguistics? Methods of semi-automatic data annotation with contextualized word embeddings. Linguistics Vanguard. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2022-0142
Haket, N. (2023). Nullius In Verba: Conceptual Engineering and the Royal Society Corpus. Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 15, 155–195.
Haket, N. (2022). Conceptual Engineering and the Royal Society Corpus [ResMA Thesis, Universiteit Leiden]. https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3420823
*Haket, N. (2021a). Language Contact and the Phylogeny and Phonology of Early English. Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Great Britain, 1(1), 1–32

Presentations

*indicates invited presentations

The Forgotten Pragmatic Aspect of Conceptual Engineering - 6th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA), Florida 2024

Why Making Words Better Is Not That Simple: Conceptual Engineering and Distributional Semantics - The 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS),with Ryan Daniels, Cambridge 2024

Why Making Words Better Is Not That Simple: Conceptual Engineering and Distributional Semantics - Pre-Conference Workshop for the 4th Experimental Philosophy Conference on LLMs for xPhi, with Ryan Daniels, Krakow 2024

Intra and inter-word variation in Conceptual Engineering. - Conceptual Engineering Network (CEN) lecture, Virtual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN6pKFT-9gA&t=2468s 2024

Conceptual Engineering: fixing the concept of NOW in Russian - Workshop on Abstract Concepts, Perception, and Language: What we think and how we say it, Cambridge 2024

Empirical Dilemmas in Conceptual Engineering: Words and Beyond - Pre-conference workshop for the 3rd European Experimental Philosophy Conference on The Dawn of Experimental Conceptual Engineering, Zurich 2023

Nullius in Verba: Conceptual Engineering and the Royal Society Corpus - 18th International Pragmatics Association Conference, Brussels 2023

Collaborative Conceptual Engineering - 8th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, Lodz 2023

Conceptual Engineering and Propositions: An Argument for Functional Dynamic

Propositions - Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy workgroup meeting 2023

Education

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Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

Supervisor: Kasia Jaszczolt

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ResMA Linguistics 2020-22

Univeriteit Leiden

Cum Laude

Supervisors: Lauren Fonteyn and Janet Connor

Thesis: Nullius in Verba: Conceptual Engineering and the Royal Society Corpus

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<aside> <img src="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" alt="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" width="40px" /> BA Linguistics 2017-20

University of Cambridge

First Class Honours

Supervisor: David Willis

Thesis: Language Contact and the Phylogeny and Phonology of Early English

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Updated 01/07/2024