Nina Haket
PhD Student, University of Cambridge. Trinity Hall
PhD Candidate
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics
nch35 [at] cam.ac.uk
About Me
Hi! I’m Nina Haket. My research focuses on conceptual engineering, word meaning, and language change, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between philosophy and linguistics. I have am in the last stages of submitting my PhD, “Navigating Meaning Spaces: A Contextualist Approach to Conceptual Engineering” at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Prof. Kasia Jaszczolt.
I currently work as a Research Associate on the project “Experimental argument analysis: Reasoning with stereotypes” with Profs Eugen Fischer and Paul Engelhardt at the University of East Anglia.
Before this, I completed a Research Master’s in Linguistics at Leiden University and a Bachelor’s in Linguistcs at the University of Cambridge. My work combines theoretical linguistics with corpus analysis.
I’m particularly interested in the semantics-pragmatics interface and its role in language change.
Research Interests
Areas of specialisation: Conceptual Engineering, Language Change, Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary, Word Meaning
Areas of competence: Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Philosophy of Language
news
| Jan 06, 2026 | I’m delighted to announce that I will be joining the University of East Anglia as a Research Associate in the School of Psychology, working on the project “Experimental argument analysis: Reasoning with stereotypes” with Prof. Eugen Fischer and Assoc. Prof. Paul Engelhardt. |
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| Oct 15, 2025 | I was shortlisted for the Trinity College Junior Research Fellowship, one of the most prestigious and competitive postdoctoral fellowships in the UK. |
| Feb 10, 2025 | Won a student bursary to attend the 19th International Pragmatics Conference to be held in Brisbane, Australia, from 22 to 27 June 2025. |
| Jan 20, 2025 | Joined the organising committee for the 11th Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2025) |
| Nov 12, 2024 | My paper “(Meta)pragmatics in Conceptual Engineering: Towards a pragmatic lexical taxonomy” was accepted for presentation as part of the panel “Choosing the best words” (organized by Cliff Goddard, Helen Bromhead) during the 19th International Pragmatics Conference to be held in Brisbane, Australia, from 22 to 27 June 2025. |
Selected Publications
- Collaborative Conceptual Engineering: Philosophy and LinguisticsIn Conceptual Engineering: Methodological and Metaphilosophical Issues, 2024
- BERT’s conceptual cartography: Mapping the landscapes of meaningSociety for Computation in Linguistics, 2025