Research interests

We can offer expert supervision across a wide range of topics:

• Applied Linguistics
• Developmental linguistics, including first and second language acquisition
• Discourse and conversation analysis
• Historical English Linguistics, including the syntax, morphology, and phonology from the earliest periods to the present day
• Language evolution
• Morphology, including word formation
• Multilingualism
• Phonetics and phonology, including diachronic phonology and the phonology of varieties of English and their history
• Pragmatics
• Sociolinguistics
• Speech technology
• Syntax and semantics, including theoretical syntax, descriptive syntax of English, diachronic syntax and both lexical and formal semantics
• Varieties of English, both British and international

Furthermore, there are a number of experts in a range of different theoretical approaches to the study of language.

Further information

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Research areas