Event Organising Committee

Sandra Kotzor (Co-chair)

Sandra is in the first year of her DPhil at Oxford and her main areas of interest are lexical semantics and pragmatics as well as cognitive semantics. She is currently looking at antonymy and its definitions and is attempting to determine what it might be that makes antonymy such a fundamental sense relation.

Miltiadis Kokkonidis (Co-chair)

Miltiadis is in his second year of a DPhil course at Oxford. His prime area of investigation is computational semantics and its interfaces with syntax and pragmatics.
His work proposes first-order type-systems for dealing with different aspects of language and ultimately demonstrates how logic can benefit the study of language in
a wide range of linguistic inquiry.

Lindsay Weichel (Treasurer)

Lindsay Weichel is in the first year of her DPhil at Oxford. Her interests include aboriginal languages of the Americas, linguistic typology, language universals, morphology, and grammatical description. She is currently researching the universality of lexical categories and the demarcation of lexical categories in Amerindian languages.

Cristina Psomadakis (Secretary)

Cristina Psomadakis is in the process of completing her MSt in Linguistics. Her interests include sociolinguistics, bilinguism and language & identity. Currently, she is researching metaphors in Modern Greek, although she is also looking at Khmer and Spanish.

Jakob Leimgruber (Webmaster)

Jakob is in his second year at Oxford, where he is researching for a DPhil on variation in Singapore English. His areas of interest include sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, and his work currently tries to find a reliable way to defining this variety's sociolinguistic typological status.

Rachele De Felice

Rachele is in her final year of DPhil in Computational Linguistics. Her research focuses on using machine learning to predict what preposition is most likely to occur in a given sentence, with a view to using this to identify errors in English text.

Steven Kaye

Steven is in the first year of an MPhil in Romance and Italic linguistics and is concentrating on the structure and history of French. His interests include Romance historical phonology, patterns of lexical replacement in late Latin, and theories of language as an evolutionary system.

Anna Silk

Anna has just completed her first year of the MPhil in Linguistics and is
focusing on sociolinguistics, language and gender and first language acquisition.

James Webb

James is studying for the MPhil in Linguistics. His main interests are in lexical semantics, argument structure and Japanese linguistics.