Staff and their Research Interests
Below are primary teaching and supervision staff and their research interests. Potential applicants may also be interested in looking at the following lists of people:
Research Interests
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Professor Wendy Bennett (Murray Edwards College) |
History of Linguistic Thought, Historical Linguistics, French Linguistics |
| Dr James Blevins (Homerton College) |
Syntax, Morphology, Computational Linguistics, Pedagogical and Contrastive Linguistics |
| Dr Nigel Collier (Murray Edwards College) |
Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing |
| Dr Henriette Hendriks (Lucy Cavendish College) |
Language and Cognition, Comparison of First and Second Language Acquisition, Discourse Analysis, Psycholinguistics |
| Professor Kasia Jaszczolt (Newnham College) |
Semantics and Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language |
| Dr Napoleon Katsos | Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, Bilingualism, Developmental Disorders |
| Professor Anna Korhonen | Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Automatic Lexical Acquisition |
| Professor Francis Nolan | Phonetics |
| Dr Brechtje Post (Jesus College) |
Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholinguistics |
| Professor Ian Roberts (Downing College) |
Comparative and Historical Syntax |
| Professor Ianthi Tsimpli (Fitzwilliam College) |
First and Second Language Acquisition, Language Impairment, Bilingualism |
| Dr Bert Vaux (King's College) |
Phonology, Morphology, Dialectology, Historical Linguistics |
| Dr John Williams | Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Psychology, Second Language Learning |
| Dr David Willis (Selwyn College) |
Historical Linguistics, Syntax, Celtic and Slavonic Languages |
Others in the Faculty Related to Linguistics
Within the Faculty there are a number of people whose work and teaching are closely connected with linguistics.
| Name | Section | Subject area | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Mark Chinca | German | German Medieval Literature | |
| Dr Mari Jones | French | Language Death, Language Contact, Dialectology, Language Change ([Comparative] Romance and Other Languages) | |
| Prof Adam Ledgeway | Italian | Syntax of Romance Languages | |
| Dr Kylie Richardson |
Slavonic Studies |
Slavonic Syntax, Case and Aspect | |
| Dr Ioanna Sitaridou | Spanish and Portuguese | Syntax of Romance Language | |
| Dr Sheila Watts | German | Historical Linguistics of German, Older Germanic Languages, Tense and Aspect, Grammaticalisation | |
| Prof Christopher Young | German | Middle High German |
