• Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
• Departments
• Linguistics and English Language
• Postgraduate research programmes
• current research students
  • Ebtesam AlOthman
  • Laura Arman
  • Samuel Atintono
  • Mary Begley
  • James Brookes
  • Aurelie Cauchard
  • Coralie Herve
  • Dorothea Hoffmann
  • Ayumi Miura
  • Jonathan Morris
  • James Murphy
  • Farah Nazir
  • Latifa Shamsan
  • Patrycja Strycharczuk
  • Danielle Turton
  • Marije van Hattum

Current PhD students in Linguistics and English Language

• Ebtesam AlOthman (supervised by Yaron Matras and Erik Schleef): An Investigation of Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication among Arab Users of Internet
• Laura Arman (supervised by Andrew Koontz-Garboden and John Payne): The interaction of Welsh impersonal and passive constructions
• Samuel Atintono (supervised by Martina Faller and Andrew Koontz-Garboden): A Typological Study of Postural Semantics in Gurene.
• Mary Begley (supervised by David Denison and David Matthews): ne eom ic wod: a diachronic analysis of the semantic field of madness
• Aurélie Cauchard (supervised byEva Schultze-Berndt and Isabelle Bril [LaCiTO, Paris]): Study of space in Caac, a Kanak language spoken in the north of New Caledonia.
• James Brookes (supervised by Nigel Vincent and David Langslow): A multifactorial analysis of word order variation in Latin participle-auxiliary clusters: factus est, est factus, factus...est, or est...factus?
• Federica Formato (supervised by Erik Schleef and Nigel Vincent)
• Pauline Harries (supervised by Kersti Börjars and David Denison): The history and current distribution of the genitive in insular Scandinavian
• Coralie Hervé (supervised by Yaron Matras and Inbal Arnon): Study on the relation between child-directed speech and the bilingual child's use of languages
• Dorothea Hoffmann (supervised by Prof. Eva Schultze-Berndt and Dr. Andrew Koontz-Garboden): Descriptions of Motion and Travel in Jaminjung and Kriol
• Fatemah Mahsain
• Ayumi Miura (supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza):Rivalries among LIKE and HATE verbs in the history of English
• Jonathan Morris (supervised by Yaron Matras and Maciej Baranowski): Phonetic variation in the repertoire of Welsh-English bilinguals
• James Murphy (supervised by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Erik Schleef): Exploring the pragmatics of apologies in political discourse
• Farah Nazir (supervised by John Payne and Andrew Koontz-Garboden): Syntactic and Semantic Properties of Light Verb Constructions in Potwari (Mirpuri)
• Mohamed Fatih Othman (supervised by Erik Schleef and Dominic Brookshaw)
• Siavash Rafiee Rad (supervised by John Payne and Martina Faller): The Semantics and Syntax of Verbal Anaphora in Persian
• Veronica Schulman (supervised by Yaron Matras): A descriptive grammar of a Romani dialect in Karditsa, Greece
• Quinn Setshedi (supervised by Paul Bennett): Developing a Sesotho morphological analyser with Xerox Finite-State Tools
• Latifa Shamsan (Paul Bennett and Louise Connell [Psychological Sciences]): A Cross-Cultural Study of Bahraini Idioms Comprehension
• Patrycja Strycharczuk (supervised by Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero and Yuni Kim): Phonetics-phonology interactions in pre-sonorant voicing
• Danielle Turton (supervised by Maciej Baranowski, Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero and Yuni Kim): Variation in Mancunian English: Synchronic reflections of the life cycle of phonological processes
• Marije van Hattum (supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yanez-Bouza): Irish English modal verbs from the 14th to the 20th centuries