ISLE Research Network

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Members of ISLE can choose to create a brief profile of their current research activities for publication on our website. Each profile may contain up to 5 'themes', and each theme may include any number of keywords.

We aim for this page to be a showcase of research in English Linguistics. It will enable members to get in touch with others working on related research topics.

Use your own keywords or choose ISLE member / Linguist List keywords:

Sociolinguistic typology

What is the diachronic effect of shifts in population makeup on language structure? And how can this be investigated in historical corpora?

  • Website: https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/en/walkden/starfish/
  • Expires after: 01-07-2030
  • Keywords: Sociolinguistics,First And Second Language Acquisition,Historical Linguistics,Corpus Linguistics,L2,Historical Syntax,History Of English,Diachronic Linguistics,Language Change,Language Contact,Syntactic Complexity

Variation studies

I am interested in the interface between variation studies (synchronic and diabronic) and typology, geolinguistics, and psycholinguistics

  • Expires after: 01-01-2030
  • Keywords: Synchronic Linguistics,Diachronic Linguistics,Variationist Linguistics

English historical syntax, in relation to Information Structure and Discourse.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ans-Van-Kemenade

Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers

Collaborative research project on a (mainly) 18C archive, involving network relations, verbal syntax, and other literary and linguistic strands.

metaphors of olfactory verbs in English

I am working on the diachrony of olfactory verbs in English for my PhD research.

Discourses of Religion in early modern Britain: lexicons of controversy and conflict

What are the ‘keywords’ to be found in anglophone works of religious controversy, instruction and devotion during the medieval and early modern periods?

  • Expires after: 01-08-2025
  • Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Diachronic Linguistics,English Historical Linguistics,Cultural Linguistics,History Of Scots,Lexicology