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Part of Manchester's strength is the breadth of expertise available. We work with linguistics specialists elsewhere in the School as well, including Iris Bachmann (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies), Delia Bentley(Italian), Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Thanh Nyan (French), John Healey (Middle Eastern Studies), and also beyond it, notably Elena Lieven (Psychology), Gina Conti-Ramsden and her colleagues (Speech and Language Therapy), David Langslow (Classics). All the linguists in the School are now members of the Institute for Linguistics and Language Studies (ILLS), reflecting and enabling the critical mass of linguistic research. The ILLS pages show the range and depth of linguistic work in the School.
For convenience we have gathered information on research within the Department on English Language and within and beyond it on Applied Linguistics.
Research profiles
Maciej Baranowski: Language variation and change; sociolinguistics; dialects of English; sociophonetics.
Paul Bennett: Syntax; morphology; computational linguistics; contrastive linguistics.
Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero: Phonology and morphology; historical linguistics; English; Spanish.
Kersti Börjars: English grammar; Germanic linguistics; morphology; syntax and syntactic theory.
David Denison: History of English (including current change); English syntax; English semantics; gradience in morphosyntax; linguistic corpora. Co-editor of English Language and Linguistics.
Martina Faller: Semantics; pragmatics; typology; field linguistics; Quechua.
Yuni Kim: Phonology and phonetics; morphology; language documentation; Mesoamerican languages; North Germanic.
Andrew Koontz-Garboden: The syntax-semantics interface; lexical and formal semantics; typology, language documentation and endangered languages.
Yaron Matras: Language contact; Romani linguistics; functional typology; bilingualism; descriptive linguistics; pragmatics; sociolinguistics; language standardisation; linguistic fieldwork; minority languages; historical linguistics; dialectology; German, Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish, Hebrew and Germanic languages. Editor of Romani Studies.
Filippo Nereo: German linguistics, Speech enclaves and language obsolescence, Post-war European population movements and identity
John Payne: Grammatical theory; typology; formal semantics; Germanic, Slavic, Iranian and Uralic.
Serge Sagna: Documentation of Joola languages (Atlantic, West Africa); nominal and verbal classification.
Erik Schleef: Language variation and change; acquisition of linguistic variation; sociolinguistics and perception; language and gender in educational settings
Eva Schultze-Berndt: Typology; semantics; language documentation; language contact; Australian languages.
Nuria Yáñez-Bouza: English historical sociolinguistics (mainly syntax); prescriptivism and the eighteenth-century grammatical tradition; language variation and change; corpus linguistics.