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Academic Staff

Academic Staff

Víctor
Dr Víctor Acedo-Matellán
Associate Professor of Portuguese and Spanish Linguistics
  • Architecture of Grammar
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Syntax-Lexicon Interface
  • Syntax-Morphology Interface
victor.acedo-matellan@oriel.ox.ac.uk
Professor Daniel Altshuler
Professor of Semantics and Pragmatics
  • Semantics
  • Pragmatics
  • Discourse Coherence
  • Philosophy of Language & Literature
daniel.altshuler@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Caroline Andrews
Dr Caroline Andrews
Postdoctoral Researcher
caroline.andrews@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Nora Baker
Lecturer in Celtic Language
nora.baker@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Dr Mary Baltazani
Postdoctoral Researcher in Phonetics
Tim Barnes
Dr Tim Barnes
Departmental Lecturer in Classical Philology
tim.barnes@classics.ox.ac.uk
Liliia Bespala
Dr Liliia Bespala
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Discourse Analysis
  • Language Contact
  • Pragmatics
liliia.bespala@phc.ox.ac.uk
Dr Megan Bushnell
Researcher in Linguistic Data
megan.bushnell@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Cappellaro SJC
Dr Chiara Cappellaro
Senior Researcher
  • Romance Languages
  • Morphological Theory
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Dr Adam Chong
Associate Professor of Phonology and Language Processing
  • Experimental Phonetics
  • Morphophonology
  • Phonetics
  • Phonology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Speech Production and Perception
  • Speech Variation
adam.chong@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Wolfgang de Melo
Professor Wolfgang de Melo
Professor of Classical Philology
wolfgang.demelo@classics.ox.ac.uk
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Dr Angelo Dian
Postdoctoral researcher in Phonetics
angelo.dian@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
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Dr Hanne Eckhoff
Associate Professor in Russian Linguistics and Comparative Slavonic Philology
  • Aktionsart
  • Comparative Slavonic Philology
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Construction Grammar
  • Corpora
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Historical Syntax
  • Information Structure
  • Morphosyntax
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Old Church Slavonic
  • Russian
  • Slavonic
hanne.eckhoff@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Dr Jose Elias-Ulloa
Research Associate in Phonetics and Phonology
jose.eliasulloa@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Jan Fellerer
Prof. Jan Fellerer
Professor of Slavonic Languages
  • Slavonic
  • History of Polish
  • Czech
  • Ukrainian
  • Discourse Analysis
Simon Fries
Dr Simon Fries
Researcher in Comparative Philology
simon.fries@classics.ox.ac.uk
Dr Isabella Fritz
Senior Research Associate
  • Bilingualism
  • EEG
  • Phonology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Speech Processing
  • Speech Production
isabella.fritz@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Dr Charlotte Hemmings
Researcher and Faculty Outreach Officer
charlotte.hemmings@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Kerstin Hoge
Dr Kerstin Hoge
Associate Professor of German Linguistics
  • Germanic
  • Syntactic Theory
  • Minimalism
  • Yiddish
Hanna Hopwood Griffiths
Dr Hanna Hopwood Griffiths
Lecturer in Celtic Language
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Professor E. Matthew Husband
Professor of Psycholinguistics
  • Syntax
  • Semantics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Sentence Processing
01865 284469
matthew.husband@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Dr Holly Kennard
Departmental Lecturer in Linguistics and French
  • Morphophonology
  • French
  • Breton
holly.kennard@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Professor Aditi Lahiri CBE FBA
Research Professor of Linguistics
  • Phonology
  • Phonetics
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neurolinguistics
01865 280401
aditi.lahiri@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
lawrence
Dr Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • Syntax
  • Semantics
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Grammatical Architecture
  • Lexical Functional Grammar
  • Psycholinguistics
lawrence.lam@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
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Dr Emily Lindsay-Smith
Postdoctoral Researcher, Language & Brain Lab
emily.lindsay-smith@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Naijing Liu
Dr Naijing Liu
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
naijing.liu@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Martin Maiden
Professor Martin Maiden FBA
Statutory Professor of the Romance Languages
  • Romance Languages
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Morphological Theory
  • Dialectology
01865 270488
martin.maiden@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Dr Louise Mycock
Associate Professor of Linguistics
  • Syntax
  • Syntactic Theory
  • Information Structure
  • Linguistic Interfaces
  • Linguistic Typology
  • Interface Phenomena
  • Tag Constructions
  • British English Dialects
  • Prosody
01865 270600
louise.mycock@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Dr Sandra Paoli
Associate Professor in Linguistics (Romance Languages)
  • Grammaticalization
  • Historical Pragmatics
  • Latin and Romance Languages
  • Microvariation and Dialectology
  • Pragmatic Motivations for Language Change
sandra.paoli@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Anna Paradis
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
anna.paradis@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Professor Elinor Payne
Professor of Phonetics and Phonology
  • Phonetics
  • Phonology
  • Prosody
  • Speech Variation
  • Acquisition
  • Multilingual and Contact Phonetics
Maida Percival
Dr Maida Percival
Postdoctoral Researcher
maida.percival@phon.ox.ac.uk
Colin Phillips
Professor Colin Phillips
Professor of Linguistics
  • Language Acquisition
  • Neurolinguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
colin.phillips@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Philomen Probert
Professor Philomen Probert
Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics
  • Ancient Greek
  • Latin
  • Anatolian
  • Graeco-Roman Grammar
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Indo-European Linguistics
01865 (2)80410
philomen.probert@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
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Dr Rasmus Puggaard-Rode
Associate Professor of Phonetics
  • Acoustic Signal Analysis
  • Corpora
  • Data Analysis
  • Experimental Phonetics
  • North Germanic
  • Phonetics
  • Phonological Representation
  • Phonology
  • Prosody
  • Scandinavian
  • Sociophonetics
  • Sound Change
  • Speech Production
  • Speech Variation
  • Tone
rasmus.puggaard-rode@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
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Professor Gillian Ramchand
Professor of Syntax and Semantics
  • Syntax
  • Semantics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neurolinguistics
gillian.ramchand@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Mary Robinson
Dr Mary Robinson
Departmental Lecturer in Syntax and Semantics
mary.robinson@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Alessia Rossetto
Dr Alessia Rossetto
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • EEG
  • Morphology
  • Phonology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Speech Processing
alessia.rossetto@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Devyani Sharma
Professor Devyani Sharma
Professor of Language and Communication
  • Dialectology
  • Language and Identity
  • Language Contact
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Sociophonetics
  • Speech Variation
  • Variationist Linguistics
devyani.sharma@ell.ox.ac.uk
Oddur Snorrason
Dr Oddur Snorrason
Postdoctoral Researcher
oddur.snorrason@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Dr Johanneke Sytsema
Linguistics Librarian for the Taylor Institution Library and the Bodleian Library
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Phonology
  • Middle Dutch
  • Old Frisian
01865 611633
johanneke.sytsema@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
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Dr Kate Tallon
Departmental Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology
  • Phonetics
  • Phonology
  • Sociophonetics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Variationist Linguistics
  • Speech Variation
  • Multilingual and Contact Phonetics
  • Language and Identity
  • Bilingualism
  • Dialectology
  • Irish
kate.tallon@new.ox.ac.uk
Oana Uta
Dr Oana Uță Bărbulescu
Departmental Lecturer in Romanian
oana.uta@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Dr Ziwen Wang
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Language Change
  • Morphology
  • Grammatical Gender
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Latin and Romance Languages
  • Linguistic Typology
ziwen.wang@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Ian Watson
Dr Ian Watson
Associate Professor of French Linguistics
  • French
  • Developmental Phonetics
  • Bilingualism
  • Language Acquisition
  • Automatic Recognition
  • Auditory Modelling
ian.watson@phon.ox.ac.uk
Professor Andreas Willi FBA
Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology
01865 288318
andreas.willi@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Prof David Willis
Professor David Willis FBA
Jesus Professor of Celtic
  • Celtic
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Syntax
  • Dialectology
  • History of English
  • Slavonic
david.willis@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Professor Sam Wolfe
Professor of French and Romance Linguistics, Tutor and Fellow of St Catherine's
Hilary
Dr Hilary Wynne
Senior Research Associate and Research Fellow of Kellogg College
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neurolinguistics
  • Phonology
  • Morphology
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Data Analysis
Martin Wynne
Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics
  • Corpus Linguistics
martin.wynne@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk

Linguistics Organising Tutors (LOTs)

  • Balliol: Sandra Paoli
  • Brasenose: Daniel Altshuler
  • Christ Church: Ian Watson
  • Corpus Christi: Wolfgang de Melo
  • Exeter: Isabella Fritz
  • Hertford: Michele Bianconi (MT26), Charlotte Hemmings (HT27, TT27)
  • Jesus: Daniel Altshuler
  • Keble: Howard Jones
  • Lady Margaret Hall: Hanne Eckhoff
  • Magdalen: Gillian Ramchand
  • Merton: Richard Ashdowne
  • New: Kate Tallon
  • Oriel: Víctor Acedo-Matellán
  • Pembroke: Holly Kennard
  • Queen's: Joanna Przedlacka
  • Somerville: Adriana Molina-Munoz (MT26, HT27), Louise Mycock (TT27)
  • St Anne's: Mary Baltazani
  • St Catherine's: Sam Wolfe
  • St Edmund Hall: Johanneke Sytsema
  • St Hilda's: Kerstin Hoge
  • St Hugh's: Matt Husband
  • St John's: Sam Wolfe
  • St Peter's: Michele Bianconi (MT26), Charlotte Hemmings (HT27, TT27)
  • Trinity: Richard Ashdowne
  • University: Richard Ashdowne
  • Wadham: Richard Ashdowne
  • Worcester: Fabian Helmrich (MT26), Charlotte Hemmings (HT27, TT27)

Faculty members primarily based at other Faculties or Colleges

Richard Ashdowne
Dr Richard Ashdowne
Lecturer in Classical Languages, University College; Linguistics Organising Tutor, Merton College, Trinity College, University College, and Wadham College
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Comparative Philology
  • History of Latin
  • Romance
  • Forms of Address
Peter Barber
Dr Peter Barber
Research Facilitator (Medical Sciences)
  • Indo-European Philology
  • Classical Philology
  • Linguistic Theory
  • Syntax
  • Indo-European Phonology
  • Ancient Greek
Professor Kersti Börjars
Master (emeritus) of St Catherine's College
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Morpho-syntactic Theory
  • Germanic Languages
kersti.borjars@stcatz.ox.ac.uk
Victor D'Avella
Dr Victor D'Avella
Departmental Lecturer in Sanskrit, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
victor.davella@ames.ox.ac.uk
Paul Elbourne
Professor Paul Elbourne
Professor of the Philosophy of Language, Faculty of Philosophy
paul.elbourne@magd.ox.ac.uk
Dr Victoria Fendel
Bjarke Frellesvig
Professor Bjarke Frellesvig
Professor of Japanese Linguistics, Director of the Research Centre for Japanese Language and Linguistics
  • Japanese
  • Historical Development of Language
  • Language Structure
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Pre-history of Japanese
Howard Jones
Dr Howard Jones
Professor of Finance, Said Business School; Fellow and Lecturer in Linguistics, Keble College
  • Germanic
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Semantics
howard.jones@keble.ox.ac.uk
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Prof. Jieun Kiaer
Young Bin Min-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Linguistics
  • Korean
  • Japanese
  • Comparative Linguistics
  • Syntax
  • Phonology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Language Acquisition
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Historical Linguistics
jieun.kiaer@ames.ox.ac.uk
Professor Henrike Lähnemann
Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics
01865270498
henrike.laehnemann@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Professor John J. Lowe
Professor of Sanskrit, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Syntax
  • Semantics
  • Indo-Iranian
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Indo-European Linguistics
Ofra Magidor
Professor Ofra Magidor
Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy
01865 610351
ofra.magidor@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Asifa Majid
Professor Asifa Majid
Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Experimental Psychology
Sophie Marnette
Professor Sophie Marnette
Professor of Medieval French Studies, Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages
Miriam Meyerhoff
Professor Miriam Meyerhoff
Professor of Sociolinguistics, All Souls College
07767147261
miriam.meyerhoff@all-souls.ox.ac.ukmiriam.meyerhoff@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
Professor Sarah Ogilvie
Professor of Language and Lexicography in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics and Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, Oxford
sarah.ogilvie@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Professor Janet Pierrehumbert
Professor of Language Modeling, Dept of Engineering Science
  • Language Dynamics
  • Word Formation
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Phonology
  • Phonetics
  • Sociophonetics
01865 610617
janet.pierrehumbert@oerc.ox.ac.uk
Frans Plank
Professor Frans Plank
Senior Research Fellow in Linguistics, Somerville College; Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Konstanz
Dr Joanna Przedlacka
Linguistics Organising Tutor at Queen's College
joanna.przedlacka@phon.ox.ac.uk
Dr Afra Pujol i Campeny
afra.pujolicampeny@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Anna Wilson
Dr Anna Wilson
REES Head of Language Studies and Teaching Fellow
anna.wilson@area.ox.ac.uk

Associate Faculty members

Dr Michele Bianconi
Assistant Professor in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, University of Uppsala
  • Anatolian
  • Ancient Greek
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Indo-European Linguistics
  • Language Contact
michele.bianconi@classics.ox.ac.uk
Dr Pietro Bortone
  • Ancient Greek
  • Medieval Greek
  • Modern Greek
  • Latin
  • Adpositions
  • Language Ideologies
  • Language and Identity
  • Turkish
  • Scandinavian
  • Romance
pietro.bortone@ling-phil.ox.ac.ukpietro.bortone@classics.ox.ac.ukpietro.bortone@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Dr Vijay D'Souza
Dr Penelope Gardner Chloros
Dr Robin Meyer
Associate Professor of Historical Linguistics, University of Lausanne
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Language Contact
  • Armenian
  • Iranian
  • Latin
  • Ancient Greek
  • Historical Syntax
robin.meyer@unil.ch
Dr Marc Olivier-Loiseau
Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
  • Clitics
  • French
  • Historical Syntax
  • Infinitives
  • Occitan
  • Old French
  • Old Occitan
  • Romance
  • Syntax
marc.olivier@ling-phil.ox.ac.ukmarc.olivier-loiseau@tcd.ie
Dr Krishnan Ram-Prasad
Affiliate Researcher
  • Historical Syntax
  • Comparative Philology
  • Indo-European Linguistics
krishnan.ram-prasad@merton.ox.ac.uk
Dr Jana Willer-Gold
Affiliate Researcher
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Syntactic Theory
  • Morphosyntax
  • Slavic
jana.willer-gold@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk

Academic Visitors

Dr Liliya Bachun
liliya.bachun@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
Dr Noam Gal
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Guillaume Guitang
Dr Guillaume Guitang
Fondation Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Language Documentation
  • Linguistic Typology
guillaume.guitang@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Professor Anita Mehta
Academic Visitor
anita.mehta@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk

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