People

Professor Wolfgang De Melo

University Lecturer in Classical Philology

Dr Kerstin Hoge

University Lecturer in German Linguistics

• Germanic
• syntactic theory
• Minimalism
• Yiddish

Dr Howard Jones

Fellow and Lecturer in Linguistics, Keble College

• Germanic
• semantics
• historical linguistics

Professor Aditi Lahiri CBE FBA

Emerita Professor of Linguistics

• phonology
• phonetics
• historical linguistics
• psycholinguistics
• neurolinguistics

Dr Louise Mycock

Associate Professor of Linguistics

• syntax
• syntactic theory
• information structure
• linguistic interfaces
• linguistic typology
• interface phenomena
• tag constructions
• British English dialects
• prosody

Svetlana Ó Siochfhradha Prešern

Colleges: Jesus

Supervisor: David Willis

"Diachronic Syntax: A study in the Grammaticalization of Complex Prepositions in Welsh "

• comparative synchronic and diachronic morpho-syntax
• Minimalism
• Celtic
• Adpositions

Professor Frans Plank

Senior Research Fellow in Linguistics, Somerville College; Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Konstanz

Dr Johanneke Sytsema

Linguistics Librarian for the Taylor Institution Library and the Bodleian Library

• historical linguistics
• phonology
• Middle Dutch
• Old Frisian

Will Thurlwell

Colleges: Wolfson

Supervisor: Howard Jones

"Instrumentality and the Instrumental Case in Old High German and Old Saxon"

• Germanic
• Old High German
• Old Saxon
• historical linguistics