James W. R. Brookes
Address: School of Languages, Linguistics & Cultures, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PL.
Email: james.brookes@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
PhD Title: A multifactorial analysis of word order variation in Latin participle-auxiliary clusters: factus est, est factus, factus...est, or est...factus?
Supervisors: Prof. Nigel Vincent, Prof. David Langslow
Main Discipline Areas
Latin, word order, historical linguistics, quantitative methods and statistics (esp. Generalized Linear Model).
Research Interests
- word order
- Latin language (and other Italic languages)
- application of statistical models in syntactic variation
- historical linguistics
Membership of Professional Organisations
Philological Society
Teaching Areas
Historical linguistics
Professional biography
2007-2009 MPhil in Greek and Latin Languages/Literature
Christ Church, University of Oxford
Overall distinction; distinction in all Papers; distinction in thesis (76).
(Supervisor: J. N. Adams, All Souls. Tutors: J. H. W. Penney, Wolfson; P. Probert, Wolfson; B. Currie, Oriel)
2003-2006 BA (Hons) Classics
University of Leeds
Overall first class honours
Other information
Mont Follick Scholar in Historical Linguistics (University of Manchester, 2009-present).
Non-academic interests
Aviation, Greek music, Early English music, Wine, Cooking.