Since 2021: PhD candidate (Working title: Word order variation in Datooga)
2018–2021 M.A. Language and Variation & German Studies, Kiel University (Thesis: An investigation of backchannels in the Bantu language Luganda).
2015–2018 B.A. Empirical Linguistics & German Studies, Kiel University (Thesis: Nonverbale Prädikation in Ruuli. Eine korpusbasierte Analyse).
PhD Project
“Case marking and constituent order variation in Nilo-Saharan: Insights from a typological survey and a case study of Datooga (Nilotic)” supervised by: Prof. Dr. Alice Mitchell & Prof. Dr. Birgit Hellwig
Presentations
07/2023 Alice Mitchell and Mandy Lorenzen. The dynamics of coding human arguments in Datooga: Integrating functional-typological and socio-interactional approaches, 18th International Pragmatics Conference, Brussels, 9–14 July 2023.
05/2023 Mandy Lorenzen and Alice Mitchell. Constituent order variation in Datooga narrative and conversation, 25th Afrikanist*innentag, Leipzig, 4–6 May 2023.
09/2022 Salience, prominence, and word order variation: A view from Datooga, PhD Conference ”What is Salience? Cos’è la Salienza?”, Bergamo, 22–23 September 2022.
07/2021 An investigation of backchannels in the Bantu language Luganda, 24th Afrikanist*innentag, Frankfurt, 1–3 July 2021.
07/2019 Nonverbal predication in Ruuli. A corpus-based analysis, Dissemination workshop, Makerere University, Kampala.
