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Dr Víctor Acedo-Matellán

Associate Professor of Portuguese and Spanish Linguistics
  • SYNTAX | MORPHOLOGY | SYNTAX-MORPHOLOGY INTERFACE | SYNTAX-LEXICON INTERFACE | ARCHITECTURE OF GRAMMAR

Dr Daniel Altshuler

Associate Professor of Semantics
  • semantics
  • pragmatics
  • Discourse Coherence
  • Philosophy of Language & Literature

Dr Richard Ashdowne

Lecturer in Classical Languages, University College
  • historical linguistics
  • comparative philology
  • history of Latin
  • Romance
  • forms of address

Dr Xavier Bach

Junior Research Fellow in Linguistics (Trinity College)
  • morphological theory
  • Romance languages
  • Austronesian languages
  • suppletion
  • inflection
  • negation

Nora Baker

Lecturer in Celtic Language

Dr Mary Baltazani

Postdoctoral Researcher in Phonetics

Dr Tim Barnes

Departmental Lecturer in Classical Philology

Dr Michele Bianconi

Departmental Lecturer in Classical Philology and Linguistics
  • Ancient Greek
  • Anatolian
  • Indo-European linguistics
  • language contact
  • historical linguistics

Dr Chiara Cappellaro

Research Fellow in Linguistics
  • Romance languages
  • morphological theory

Professor John Coleman

Professor of Phonetics, Director of the Phonetics Laboratory

Dr Mark Darling

Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Celtic Linguistics

Dr Hannah Davidson

Outreach Officer, Tutor and Lecturer in Linguistics
  • Mauritian Creole
  • Language change
  • Multilingualism
  • Language attitudes

Professor Wolfgang De Melo

University Lecturer in Classical Philology

Dr Hanne Eckhoff

Associate Professor in Russian Linguistics and Comparative Slavonic Philology

Dr Jose Elias-Ulloa

Departmental Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology

Dr Jan Fellerer

University Lecturer in Non-Russian Slavonic Languages
  • Slavonic
  • history of Polish
  • Czech
  • Ukrainian
  • discourse analysis

Dr Valentina Ferrari

Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Linguistics

Dr Isabella Fritz

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Dr Matt Hunt Gardner

Departmental Lecturer in Sociolinguistics

Dr Charlotte Hemmings

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr Kerstin Hoge

University Lecturer in German Linguistics
  • Germanic
  • syntactic theory
  • Minimalism
  • Yiddish

Llewelyn Hopwood

Lecturer in Celtic Language

Professor Matthew Husband

University Lecturer in Psycholinguistics

Dr Howard Jones

Fellow and Lecturer in Linguistics, Keble College
  • Germanic
  • semantics
  • historical linguistics

Dr Holly Kennard

Departmental Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology
  • morphophonology
  • French
  • Breton

Dr Diego Krivochen

Departmental Lecturer in Syntax

Dr Emily Lindsay-Smith

Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Language & Brain Lab

Professor Martin Maiden FBA

Statutory Professor of the Romance Languages, Fellow of Trinity College
  • Romance languages
  • historical linguistics
  • morphological theory
  • dialectology

Dr Louise Mycock

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

Dr Sandra Paoli

Associate Professor in Linguistics (Romance Languages)
  • grammaticalization
  • interface between syntax and pragmatics
  • microvariation and dialectology
  • Romance languages
  • pragmatic motivations for language change
  • historical pragmatics

Anna Paradis

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Professor Elinor Payne

Professor of Phonetics and Phonology
  • phonetics
  • phonology
  • prosody
  • speech variation
  • acquisition
  • multilingual and contact phonetics

Professor Colin Phillips

Professor of Linguistics

Professor Philomen Probert

Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics
  • Ancient Greek
  • Anatolian
  • Indo-European linguistics
  • Graeco-Roman grammar
  • historical linguistics
  • phonology

Dr Joanna Przedlacka

Postdoctoral Researcher in Phonetics

Dr Afra Pujol i Campeny

Gede Primahadi W. Rajeg

Postdoctoral Researcher
  • cognitive linguistics
  • construction grammar
  • corpus linguistics
  • lexicography
  • lexicology

Dr Charles Redmon

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Dr Kelsey Sasaki

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Dr Johanneke Sytsema

Linguistics Librarian for the Taylor Institution Library and the Bodleian Library
  • historical linguistics
  • phonology
  • Middle Dutch
  • Old Frisian

Dr Rosalind Temple

University Lecturer in French Linguistics and Fellow of New College
  • phonetics
  • phonology
  • variationlist linguistics
  • French
  • English
  • Welsh

Dr Oana Uță Bărbulescu

Departmental Lecturer in Romanian

Dr Ian Watson

University Lecturer in French Linguistics
  • French
  • developmental phonetics
  • bilingualism
  • language acquisition
  • automatic recognition
  • auditory modelling

Dr Jana Willer-Gold

Departmental Lecturer in Psycholinguistics and Experimental Syntax
  • psycholinguistics
  • syntactic theory
  • Morphosyntax
  • Slavic

Professor Andreas Willi FBA

Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology

Professor David Willis FBA

Jesus Professor of Celtic
  • Celtic
  • historical linguistics
  • syntax
  • dialectology
  • History of English
  • Slavonic

Professor Sam Wolfe

Professor of French and Romance Linguistics, Tutor and Fellow of St Catherine's

Dr Hilary Wynne

Postdoctoral Researcher
  • psycholinguistics
  • neurolinguistics
  • phonology
  • morphology
  • historical linguistics
  • data analysis

Martin Wynne

Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics
  • corpus linguistics

Linguistics Organising Tutors (LOTs)

  • Balliol: Sandra Paoli
  • Brasenose: Daniel Altshuler
  • Christ Church: Ian Watson
  • Corpus Christi: Wolfgang de Melo
  • Exeter: Ros Temple
  • Hertford, St Peter’s: Afra Pujol i Campeny
  • Jesus: Daniel Altshuler
  • Keble: Howard Jones
  • Lady Margaret Hall: Fabian Helmrich
  • Magdalen (MLL): Ros Temple
  • Magdalen (PPL): Paul Elbourne
  • Merton: Richard Ashdowne
  • New: Ros Temple
  • Oriel: Víctor Acedo-Matellán
  • Pembroke: Holly Kennard
  • Queen’s: Joanna Przedlacka
  • Somerville: Louise Mycock
  • St Anne’s: Mary Baltazani
  • St Catherine’s, St John’s: Sam Wolfe (MT), Marc Olivier (HT, TT)
  • St Edmund Hall: Johanneke Sytsema
  • St Hilda’s: Kerstin Hoge
  • St Hugh’s: Matt Husband
  • Trinity, University, Wadham: Richard Ashdowne
  • Worcester: Charlotte Hemmings

Faculty members primarily based at other Faculties or Colleges

Victor D'Avella

Departmental Lecturer in Sanskrit, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Dr Peter Barber

Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College and Research Facilitator (Humanities)
  • Indo-European philology
  • Classical philology
  • linguistic theory
  • syntax
  • Indo-European phonology
  • Ancient Greek

Professor Kersti Börjars

Master of St Catherine's College
  • historical linguistics
  • Morpho-syntactic theory
  • Germanic languages

Professor Paul Elbourne

Professor of the Philosophy of Language

Dr Pau Francesch Sabate

Lecturer in Catalan Studies, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages

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

Dr Jieun Kiaer

University Lecturer in Korean Language and Linguistics
  • Korean
  • Japanese
  • comparative linguistics
  • syntax
  • phonology
  • psycholinguistics
  • language acquisition
  • corpus linguistics
  • historical linguistics

Dr John J. Lowe

Associate Professor of Sanskrit
  • syntax
  • semantics
  • Indo-Iranian
  • historical linguistics
  • Indo-European linguistics

Professor Ofra Magidor

CUF Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy

Dr Sophie Marnette

Professor of Medieval French Studies

Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

Professor of Sociolinguistics, All Souls College

Dr Sarah Ogilvie

Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics and of Campion Hall

Dr Marc Olivier

Departmental Lecturer in French Linguistics
  • Romance
  • French
  • historical syntax
  • syntax
  • old french
  • old occitan
  • occitan
  • infinitives
  • clitics

Professor Janet Pierrehumbert

Professor of Language Modeling, Dept of Engineering Science
  • language dynamics
  • word formation
  • computational linguistics
  • phonology
  • phonetics
  • sociophonetics

Professor Frans Plank

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

Professor Kim Plunkett

Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • language acquisition
  • artificial neural networks
  • cognitive science

Dr Krishnan Ram-Prasad

Junior Research Fellow in Classics and Linguistics, Merton College
  • historical syntax
  • comparative philology
  • Indo-European linguistics

Dr Danfeng Wu

Fellow by Examination at Magdalen College
  • syntax
  • prosody
  • semantics
  • phonetics

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Dr Daniel Altshuler

Associate Professor of Semantics
  • semantics
  • pragmatics
  • Discourse Coherence
  • Philosophy of Language & Literature

Professor John Coleman

Professor of Phonetics, Director of the Phonetics Laboratory

Professor Matthew Husband

University Lecturer in Psycholinguistics

Professor Aditi Lahiri CBE FBA

Emerita Professor of Linguistics
  • phonology
  • phonetics
  • historical linguistics
  • psycholinguistics
  • neurolinguistics

Professor Martin Maiden FBA

Statutory Professor of the Romance Languages, Fellow of Trinity College
  • Romance languages
  • historical linguistics
  • morphological theory
  • dialectology

Dr Louise Mycock

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

Professor Elinor Payne

Professor of Phonetics and Phonology
  • phonetics
  • phonology
  • prosody
  • speech variation
  • acquisition
  • multilingual and contact phonetics

Professor Colin Phillips

Professor of Linguistics

Professor Philomen Probert

Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics
  • Ancient Greek
  • Anatolian
  • Indo-European linguistics
  • Graeco-Roman grammar
  • historical linguistics
  • phonology

Professor Andreas Willi FBA

Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology

Professor David Willis FBA

Jesus Professor of Celtic
  • Celtic
  • historical linguistics
  • syntax
  • dialectology
  • History of English
  • Slavonic

Professor Sam Wolfe

Professor of French and Romance Linguistics, Tutor and Fellow of St Catherine's

Chair of the Faculty Board

  • Prof Philomen Probert

Faculty Officers and Leads

  • Chair of the Faculty / Deputy Chair of the Faculty Board: Prof Andreas Willi; Professor Colin Phillips (from 1 January 2024)
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS): Prof Sam Wolfe <dus@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk>
  • Director of Graduate Studies (DGS): Dr Louise Mycock <dgs@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk>
  • Disability Lead: Dan Holloway
  • Disability Officers: Dan Holloway
  • Harassment Advisors: Dan Holloway and Dr Kerstin Hoge
  • Knowledge Exchange, Innovation, and Impact Lead: Dr Michele Bianconi
  • Research Director: Prof Matthew Husband

Prelims and FHS Conveners

  • Prelims General Linguistics Convener: Prof Matt Husband
  • Prelims Phonetics & Phonology Convener: Dr Holly Kennard
  • Prelims Morphology Convener: Dr Hannah Davidson
  • Prelims Semantics & Pragmatics Convener: Prof Daniel Altshuler
  • Prelims Syntax Convener: Dr Diego Krivochen
  • Paper A Coordinator: Dr Diego Krivochen

Linguistics Librarian

  • Dr Johanneke Sytsema

ECR representatives

  • Dr Charles Redmon
  • Dr Hilary Wynne    

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Student Representatives

  • Postgraduate (Research): Josh Booth
  • Postgraduate (Teaching): Catherine Brislane
  • Undergraduate (MLL): Danielle Chorley
  • Undergraduate (PPL): TBC

MPhil (1st year) Students

Abigail Anthony

Colleges: St Hugh's

Supervisor: Jan Fellerer

Zach Glabman

Colleges: Worcester

Supervisor: Holly Kennard, Colin Phillips

Shangqi Liu

Colleges: New College

Supervisor: Dr Jana Willer-Gold

Yuge Liu

Colleges: Somerville

Supervisor: Dr Jana Willer-Gold

Farah Maharani

Colleges: Kellogg

Supervisor: Jan Fellerer

Sachini Marasinghe Mudiyanselage

Colleges: St Catherine's

Supervisor: David Willis

Allison Murphy

Colleges: St Hilda's

Supervisor: Michele Bianconi

Natalie Nichols

Colleges: Jesus

Supervisor: Daniel Altshuler

Olivia Nutt

Colleges: St Edmund Hall

Supervisor: Matthew Husband

Clara Saliba

Colleges: Worcester

Supervisor: David Willis

" Breton-Language Contact Phenomena "

Esteban Sanchez

Colleges: St Hugh's

Supervisor: Sam Wolfe

Novak Shi

Colleges: Kellogg

Supervisor: Elinor Payne

Eason Shum

Colleges: Pembroke

Supervisor: Jose Elias-Ulloa

"Vowels in Canton-Zhanmi: Patterns and Diachronic Change"

  • sociophonetics
  • speech production and perception
  • experimental phonetics
  • speech variation
  • Guangdong Chinese dialects

Ryan Smith

Colleges: St Hugh's

Supervisor: Rosalind Temple

Yifan Song

Colleges: Wolfson

Supervisor: Víctor Acedo-Matellán

Jane Xuzhen Tang

Colleges: Jesus

Supervisor: Jose Elias-Ulloa

Jonathan Walls

Colleges: Linacre

Supervisor: Michele Bianconi

"Anatolian"

Fleur Whitworth

Colleges: Oriel

Supervisor: Sam Wolfe

Han Yao

Colleges: Wolfson

Supervisor: Daniel Altshuler

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MPhil (2nd year) Students

Cath Brislane

Colleges: Jesus

Supervisor: Louise Mycock

Veronika Gvozdovaitė

Colleges: Worcester

Supervisor: Holly Kennard

Katy Jenkinson

Colleges: Lady Margaret Hall

Supervisor: Hanne Eckhoff

Yiying Jiang

Colleges: Worcester

Supervisor: Matt Hunt Gardner

Dillon Kelly

Colleges: St Cross

Supervisor: Andreas Willi

"The Poetics of Obfuscation: Linguistic Riddles and Enigmas in the Rigveda"

Xinyu Liao

Colleges: St Hilda's

Supervisor: Matt Hunt Gardner

"Documenting the systematicity of vowel shifts in Tsat: an endangered Austronesian language in Hainan, China"

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

Zoe Popescu

Colleges: Lady Margaret Hall

Supervisor: Matthew Husband

Kaitlyn Ryda

Colleges: St Cross

Supervisor: Kerstin Hoge

Althea Rosa Ludovica Sovani

Colleges: Somerville

Supervisor: Andreas Willi

Ari Warrington

Colleges: Somerville

Supervisor: Louise Mycock

Eleanor Wilcox

Colleges: Wolfson

Supervisor: Andreas Willi

Chenxi Xia

Colleges: Linacre

Supervisor: Martin Maiden

Gordon Xu

Colleges: Wolfson

Supervisor: Daniel Altshuler

Jinning Zhang

Colleges: Wolfson

Supervisor: Víctor Acedo-Matellán

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DPhil Students

Miyu Akao

Colleges: St Hugh's

Supervisor: Philomen Probert

Deborah Ball

Colleges: Kellogg

Supervisor: Matthew Husband

Joshua Booth

Colleges: Somerville

Supervisor: Aditi Lahiri

"The prosodic structure of Middle High German"

  • phonology
  • psycholinguistics
  • historical linguistics
  • Germanic languages
  • prosody
  • phonetics

Alicia Cleary-Venables

Colleges: Christ Church

Supervisor: Deborah Cameron, Rosalind Temple

Shahd Dibas

Colleges: St Hugh's

Supervisor: Matthew Husband

Dmitry Dundua

Colleges: Lady Margaret Hall

Supervisor: Philomen Probert

Mimi Eisenbruch

Colleges: Balliol

Supervisor: Martin Maiden

Ryan Emerson

Colleges: Regent's Park

Supervisor: Hanne Eckhoff, Howard Jones

Yang Fan

Colleges: St Hugh's

Supervisor: Matthew Husband

"Garden-path reanalysis and memory retrieval"

Brittany Hause

Colleges: St Anne's

Supervisor: Chiara Cappellaro

Songjun He

Colleges: New College

Supervisor: Aditi Lahiri, Holly Kennard

Fabian Helmrich

Colleges: Lady Margaret Hall

Supervisor: Martin Maiden

"Verbal aspect in Istroromanian"

  • language and gender
  • language contact
  • linguistic typology
  • Romanian
  • Slavonic

Luis Hildebrandt Belmont

Colleges: Wolfson

Supervisor: Matthew Husband

Valentin Hofmann

Colleges: St Catherine's

Supervisor: Janet Pierrehumbert, Hinrich Schütze

Yu-Xian (Claire) Huang

Colleges: Somerville

Supervisor: Elinor Payne

Zirui Huang

Colleges: Oriel

Supervisor: Matthew Husband

Toby Hudson

Colleges: Wolfson

Supervisor: John Coleman, Philomen Probert

Fangru Lin

Colleges: Balliol

Supervisor: Janet Pierrehumbert, Hinrich Schütze

Caolan O'Neill

Colleges: Pembroke

Supervisor: Deborah Cameron

Nilo Pedrazzini

Colleges: St Hugh's

Supervisor: Hanne Eckhoff

"A quantitative and typological study of Early Slavic participle clauses and their competition"

  • semantics
  • pragmatics
  • Old Church Slavonic
  • natural language processing
  • data analysis
  • corpus linguistics
  • linguistic typology

Hamish Pottinger

Colleges: Trinity

Supervisor: Deborah Cameron

Lilja Saeboe

Colleges: Balliol

Supervisor: Wolfgang De Melo

Anna Sapuntsova

Colleges: Jesus

Supervisor: Hanne Eckhoff, Aditi Lahiri, Hilary Wynne

Wyn Shaw

Colleges: St Hilda's

Supervisor: Sam Wolfe

Yiwei Si

Colleges: Balliol

Supervisor: Kerstin Hoge

"Locality in words - evidence from German present and past participles"

  • syntax
  • morphology
  • syntax-morphology interface

Pat Snidvongs

Colleges: Worcester

Supervisor: Philomen Probert, John Lowe

Leah Sternefeld

Colleges: St Hilda's

Supervisor: Aditi Lahiri, Jose Elias-Ulloa

"Phonology: Structure-Dependent Phonological Change in the Arabic Dialects"

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

Jonathan Wei

Colleges: Worcester

Supervisor: John Coleman, Wolfgang De Melo

Xiaoye Wu

Colleges: Trinity

Supervisor: Jose Elias-Ulloa

Chen Xie

Colleges: Hertford

Supervisor: Louise Mycock

Chenzi Xu

Colleges: St Hugh's

Supervisor: John Coleman

Runyi Yao

Colleges: Wolfson

Supervisor: Matthew Husband, Daniel Altshuler

"Intra-sentential coherence and sentence processing"

Huinan Zeng

Colleges: Trinity

Supervisor: Aditi Lahiri, Holly Kennard

Jiarui Zhang

Colleges: Balliol

Supervisor: Holly Kennard, Aditi Lahiri

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Professor Jean Aitchison

Rupert Murdoch Professor of Communication (retired)

Professor Deborah Cameron

Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication
  • sociolinguistics
  • language and gender
  • language ideologies
  • linguistic normativity
  • discourse analysis

Dr David Cram

University Lecturer in Linguistics and Fellow of Jesus College (retired)

Professor Mary Dalrymple FBA

Emeritus Professor of Syntax
  • syntax
  • semantics
  • information structure
  • prosody
  • grammatical architecture
  • language documentation

Dr Paloma Garcia-Bellido

Professor Aditi Lahiri CBE FBA

Emerita Professor of Linguistics
  • phonology
  • phonetics
  • historical linguistics
  • psycholinguistics
  • neurolinguistics

Dr C M MacRobert

University Lecturer in Russian Philology and Comparative SLeverhulme Visiting Professor, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics M.A. D.Phil. (Oxon); Fellow of the American Physical Society, Slavonic Philology (retired)
  • comparative Slavonic philology
  • Old Church Slavonic
  • historical development of language
  • Russian
  • Bulgarian and Serbian
  • historical linguistics

Dr Stephen Parkinson

Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, Portuguese Language and Linguistics (retired)

Dr John Penney

University Lecturer in Classical Philology

Professor Stephen G. Pulman

Professor of Computational Linguistics (retired)
  • semantics
  • automated reasoning and language
  • language modelling

Mr John Charles Smith

University Lecturer in French Linguistics, Fellow of St Catherine's College (retired)

Dr Elizabeth Tucker

Jill Hart Senior Research Fellow in Indo-Iranian Philology
  • Vedic
  • Avestan
  • Old Persian
  • Ancient Greek
  • historical linguistics

Mr Chris Wells

University Lecturer in Germanic Philology and Medieval German Literature, Fellow of St Edmund Hall (retired)
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