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Dr Richard Ashdowne

Lecturer in Classical Languages, University College

• historical linguistics
• comparative philology
• history of Latin
• Romance
• forms of address

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

Dr Ylva Berglund Prytz

Senior Project Officer, IT Services

• corpus linguistics
• present-day English
• expressions of future
• corpora
• language learning

Dr Michele Bianconi

Diebold Researcher in Comparative Philology

Professor Kersti Börjars

Master of St Catherine's College

• historical linguistics
• Morpho-syntactic theory
• Germanic languages

Dr Pietro Bortone

Research Fellow

• Ancient Greek
• Medieval Greek
• Modern Greek
• Latin
• Adpositions
• language ideologies
• Language and Identity
• Turkish
• Scandinavian
• Romance

Dr Juan-Carlos Conde

Faculty Lecturer in Medieval Spanish Literature, Fellow of Magdalen College

• Spanish
• lexical history
• historical development of language
• textual criticism

Professor Mary Dalrymple

Emeritus Professor of Syntax

• syntax
• semantics
• information structure
• prosody
• grammatical architecture
• language documentation

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 Howard Jones

Fellow and Lecturer in Linguistics, Keble College

• Germanic
• semantics
• historical linguistics

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 Anita Mehta

Academic Visitor and Consultant

Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

Professor of Sociolinguistics, All Souls College

Professor Lynda Mugglestone

Professor of History of English, Fellow in English at Pembroke College and Times Lecturer in English, Faculty of English

• English
• historical development of language
• metalexicography
• linguistic history of dictionaries

Dr Sarah Ogilvie

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

Dr John Penney

University Lecturer in Classical Philology

Professor Milo Phillips-Brown

Academic Visitor

• Algorithmic bias and discrimination
• Human-robot relationships
• semantics
• particularly the semantics of attitude ascriptions

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

Professor Stephen G. Pulman

Professor of Computational Linguistics

• semantics
• automated reasoning and language
• language modelling

Dr Johanneke Sytsema

Linguistics Librarian for the Taylor Institution Library and the Bodleian Library

• historical linguistics
• phonology
• Middle Dutch
• Old Frisian

Dr Elizabeth Tucker

Jill Hart Senior Research Fellow in Indo-Iranian Philology

• Vedic
• Avestan
• Old Persian
• Ancient Greek
• historical linguistics

Professor Yorick Wilks

Senior Research Fellow

• computational linguistics
• semantics
• pragmatics
• language and knowledge representation

Martin Wynne

Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics

• corpus linguistics