Tania Kouteva

Tania Kuteva (born 1958 in Bourgas, Bulgaria) is a historical linguist specializing in grammaticalization, language contact and discourse grammar.

Her surname is Romanized as Kuteva in academic publications, and as Kouteva (following Danchev's system) for administrative purposes.

Career and honours Kuteva received her doctorate from the University of Sofia, and worked at the same institution as assistant professor between 1981 and 1990. She was elected Member of the Academia Europaea in 2017. Her volumes on Language contact and grammatical change and on The genesis of grammar, both written with Heine and linking language contact and the study of the evolution of languages respectively with grammaticalization theory, are also very influential: each has been cited over a thousand times.

Selected publications Kuteva, Tania. 2004. Auxiliation: an enquiry into the nature of grammaticalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Heine, Bernd, and Tania Kuteva. 2005. Language contact and grammatical change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Heine, Bernd, and Tania Kuteva. 2006. The changing languages of Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Heine, Bernd, and Tania Kuteva. 2007. The genesis of grammar: a reconstruction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kaltenböck, Günther, Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva. 2011. On thetical grammar. Studies in Language 35 (4), 852–897. Heine, Bernd, Tania Kuteva, Bo Hong, Haiping Long, Heiko Narrog, and Seongha Rhee. 2019. World lexicon of grammaticalization. Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.