Executive Committee

Miltiadis Kokkonidis (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.

Sandra Kotzor (Co-chair, Event Organising Committee)

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.

Simon Dobnik (Co-chair, Programme Committee)

Simon is completing his DPhil thesis in computational linguistics. His work involves using machine learning techniques "to teach" mobile robots referential expressions about space. His other interests include natural language syntax and semantics.

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.