Jennifer Rains

Jennifer Rains is a Chargée d’enseignement (Teaching Assistant) and Doctorante (Doctoral Candidate) at the Institute of English studies, part of the Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines at the Université de Neuchâtel. Her research focuses on English and French clippings, corpus-based approaches to word formation, and constructional change in syntax.

Education: She holds an M.A. in Spanish Literature from Pennsylvania State University and an M.A. in English Linguistics from the Université de Neuchâtel. Her doctoral work, supervised by Martin Hilpert, investigates the phonological and semantic dimensions of clippings in English.

Research interests span historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, and language variation. Her recent studies employ experimental and statistical methods to analyze clipping phenomena and syntactic alternations.

Publications include analyses of clipping meaning differentiation, multivariate approaches to word formation, and constructional shifts in determiner usage. No scientific awards are noted here.

No advising or grant information is provided in the text, though her current PhD project suggests active involvement in linguistic research. She is affiliated with the Institute’s English linguistics research initiatives.