Tania Kuteva (born 1958 in Bourgas, Bulgaria) is a historical linguist specializing in grammaticalization, language contact and discourse grammar.
[1][2] Her surname is Romanized as Kuteva in academic publications, and as Kouteva (following Danchev's system) for administrative purposes.
[2] Kuteva has held visiting positions at the University of Texas at San Antonio (2002), the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (2004–5), the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (2006), and SOAS University of London (2009–12); she retains an affiliation at the latter.
[2] Kuteva's early work at the University of Sofia (pre-1990) focused on Bulgarian-English contrastive linguistics and issues of scientific and technical lexis and texts.
[2] Together with Bernd Heine she authored the World Lexicon of Grammaticalization, an encyclopedic treatment of the origin of grammatical words and morphemes across languages; this volume is now in its second edition.