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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.
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
The BE-passive in Gibraltar English
The study of the BE-passive in Gibraltar English, with a focus on grammatical variation, socio-cultural pragmatics and language contact.
- Website: view0.webs.uvigo.es/team/marina-perez
- Expires after: 31-05-2029
- Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Dialectology,Grammatical Variation,Language Contact,Language Identity,Pragmatics,Sociolinguistics,Synchronic Linguistics,Syntax,World Englishes
Language contact and grammatical change in early English
How much is early English syntax shaped by contact with Celtic and Norse? My Konstanz inaugural lecture (see link) gives an overview of some of my work on this so far.
- Website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IATXBYKiow
- Expires after: 01-10-2028
- Keywords: Historical Syntax,Language Contact,Language Change,Old English,Middle English,Syntax,Historical Linguistics
Aboriginal English in the Pilbara
My PhD explores Aboriginal English as spoken in the Pilbara, where I examine the language repertoires of Indigenous communities using a participatory approach.
- Expires after: 31-12-2027
- Keywords: Sociolinguistics,Variationist Linguistics,Variation,Discourse Analysis,Discourse-pragmatic,Language Contact,Language Identity,Lexical Diversity,Styles,World Englishes