People

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

Dr Mary Baltazani

Postdoctoral Researcher in Phonetics

Dr Michele Bianconi

Diebold Researcher in Comparative Philology

Ancient Greek
Anatolian
Indo-European linguistics
language contact
historical linguistics

Professor Deborah Cameron

Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication

sociolinguistics
language and gender
language ideologies
linguistic normativity
discourse analysis

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

Postdoctoral Researcher in Mauritian Creole 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 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

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

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

Professor Elinor Payne

Professor of Phonetics and Phonology

phonetics
phonology
prosody
speech variation
acquisition
multilingual and contact phonetics

Dr Alessandra Petrocchi

Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Dr 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 Richard Stockwell

Junior Research Fellow

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

Dr Alessandro Vatri

Departmental Lecturer in Classical and Comparative Philology

Ancient Greek
psycholinguistics
oratorical performance
rhetorical theory
mnemonics
electronic corpora

Dr Ian Watson

University Lecturer in French Linguistics

French
developmental phonetics
bilingualism
language acquisition
automatic recognition
auditory modelling

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 Danfeng Wu

Fellow by Examination at Magdalen College

syntax
prosody
semantics
phonetics

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: Xavier Bach
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: Hanne Eckhoff
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: Charlotte Hemmings
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: Marc Olivier
Trinity, University, Wadham: Richard Ashdowne
Worcester: Charlotte Hemmings

Faculty members primarily based at other Faculties or Colleges

Professor Kersti Börjars

Master of St Catherine's College

historical linguistics
Morpho-syntactic theory
Germanic languages

Professor Paul Elbourne

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

Associate Faculty members

Dr Pietro Bortone

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

Dr Vijay D'Souza

Dr Penelope Gardner Chloros

Dr Robin Meyer

historical linguistics
language contact
Armenian
Iranian
Latin
Ancient Greek
historical syntax

Academic Visitors

Dr Liliia Bespala

Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Science

Dr Inji Choi

Gyeongsang National University

Dr Noam Gal

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Professor Anita Mehta

Academic Visitor and Consultant

Dr Agnieszka Patejuk

Polish Academy of Sciences

Dr Ziwen Wang

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 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

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 and Dr Alessandra Petrocchi
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

Student Representatives

Postgraduate (Research): Josh Booth
Postgraduate (Teaching): Catherine Brislane
Undergraduate (MLL): Grace Ubaka Farsides
Undergraduate (PPL): Poppy Thomson

MSt Students

Kourosh Abbaspour

College: St Cross

Supervisor: Sandra Paoli

Adeyemi Awomodu

College: Pembroke

Supervisor: Diego Krivochen

Ling Hoi Chi

College: Worcester

Supervisor: Diego Krivochen

Leticia Cortellete Melo

College: Somerville

Supervisor: Daniel Altshuler

Christopher Dunkin

College: St Catherine's

Supervisor: Víctor Acedo-Matellán

Nicholas Hayes

College: Somerville

Supervisor: Hanne Eckhoff

Barbora Hlachova

College: Somerville

Supervisor: Matthew Husband

Yiying Jiang

College: Worcester

Supervisor: Matt Hunt Gardner

Dong Hyun Kang

College: Balliol

Supervisor: Sam Wolfe

Otis Karagkiozelis

College: Linacre

Supervisor: Philomen Probert

Sofiia Korn

College: Trinity

Supervisor: Jan Fellerer

Shannon O'Donnell

College: Worcester

Supervisor: Sandra Paoli

Amira Ramdani

College: Trinity

Supervisor: Víctor Acedo-Matellán

Xingyue Tu

College: Christ Church

Supervisor: Deborah Cameron

Ken Yoneno

College: Linacre

Supervisor: Deborah Cameron

Wilfried Kuugauraq Zibell

College: New College

Supervisor: Wolfgang De Melo

MPhil (1st year) Students

Rhys Appleyard

College: St Catherine's

Supervisor: Martin Maiden

Cath Brislane

College: Jesus

Supervisor: Louise Mycock

Veronika Gvozdovaitė

College: Worcester

Supervisor: Holly Kennard

Katy Jenkinson

College: Lady Margaret Hall

Supervisor: Hanne Eckhoff

Dillon Kelly

College: St Cross

Supervisor: Wolfgang De Melo

Xinyu Liao

College: St Hilda's

Supervisor: Matt Hunt Gardner

Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha Prešern

College: Jesus

Supervisor: David Willis

Zoe Popescu

College: Lady Margaret Hall

Supervisor: Matthew Husband

Kaitlyn Ryda

College: St Cross

Supervisor: Kerstin Hoge

Althea Rosa Ludovica Sovani

College: Somerville

Supervisor: Andreas Willi

Ann Sun

College: Linacre

Supervisor: Rosalind Temple

Ari Warrington

College: Somerville

Supervisor: Louise Mycock

Eleanor Wilcox

College: Wolfson

Supervisor: Andreas Willi

Chenxi Xia

College: Linacre

Supervisor: Martin Maiden

Gordon Xu

College: Wolfson

Supervisor: Daniel Altshuler

Jinning Zhang

College: Wolfson

Supervisor: Víctor Acedo-Matellán

MPhil (2nd year) Students

Martin Alldrick

College: St Edmund Hall

Supervisor: Jan Fellerer

Jay Chin Soto

College: Wolfson

Supervisor: Víctor Acedo-Matellán

Ryan Emerson

College: Regent's Park

Supervisor: Hanne Eckhoff

Alexander Frangulov

College: Balliol

Supervisor: Daniel Altshuler

Daotong Hu

College: Kellogg

Supervisor: Jose Elias-Ulloa

Zoe Hua

College: New College

Supervisor: Kerstin Hoge

Nick Jones

College: St Hugh's

Supervisor: Sandra Paoli

Fangru Lin

College: St Catherine's

Supervisor: Diego Krivochen

Yutong Liu

College: Linacre

Supervisor: Matthew Husband

Yiming Lu

College: Linacre

Supervisor: Matthew Husband

Sophie Magnet

College: St Cross

Supervisor: David Willis

Athanasia Eleni Manousou

College: Linacre

Supervisor: Holly Kennard

Benjamin Nabnian

College: Christ Church

Supervisor: Wolfgang De Melo

"Loanword Adaptation: Tone assignment of loanwords in tonal languages (Thai)"

Hannah Semmelhack

College: Magdalen

Supervisor: Andreas Willi

Felicia Stich

College: Balliol

Supervisor: Howard Jones

"Socio-cognitive factors in the pejoration of German words for women"

Zuwena Virani

College: Linacre

Supervisor: Philomen Probert

Xiaoye Wu

College: St Hugh's

Supervisor: Jose Elias-Ulloa

Ye-Ye Xu

Junior Dean, Pembroke College

College: Pembroke

Supervisor: Sam Wolfe

"Linguistic complexity in French Creoles of the Carribean and Louisiana"

MLitt Students

Eva Henderson

College: Wolfson

Supervisor: David Willis

DPhil Students

Miyu Akao

College: St Hugh's

Supervisor: Philomen Probert

Deborah Ball

College: Kellogg

Supervisor: Matthew Husband

Joshua Booth

College: Somerville

Supervisor: Aditi Lahiri

"The prosodic structure of Middle High German"

phonology
psycholinguistics
historical linguistics
Germanic languages
prosody
phonetics

Alicia Cleary-Venables

College: Christ Church

Supervisor: Deborah Cameron, Rosalind Temple

Shahd Dibas

College: St Hugh's

Supervisor: Matthew Husband

Frances Dowle

College: Worcester

Supervisor: David Willis, Louise Mycock

"Agreement in Welsh: syntax and its interfaces"

Dmitry Dundua

College: Lady Margaret Hall

Supervisor: Philomen Probert

Yang Fan

College: St Hugh's

Supervisor: Matthew Husband

"Garden-path reanalysis and memory retrieval"

Brittany Hause

College: St Anne's

Supervisor: Chiara Cappellaro

Songjun He

College: New College

Supervisor: Aditi Lahiri, Holly Kennard

Fabian Helmrich

College: Lady Margaret Hall

Supervisor: Martin Maiden

"Verbal aspect in Istroromanian"

language and gender
language contact
linguistic typology
Romanian
Slavonic

Luis Hildebrandt Belmont

College: Wolfson

Supervisor: Matthew Husband

Valentin Hofmann

College: St Catherine's

Supervisor: Janet Pierrehumbert, Hinrich Schütze

Yu-Xian (Claire) Huang

College: Somerville

Supervisor: Elinor Payne

Zirui Huang

College: Oriel

Supervisor: Matthew Husband

Toby Hudson

College: Wolfson

Supervisor: John Coleman, Philomen Probert

Georgy Krasovitsky

College: Wolfson

Supervisor: Martin Maiden

Toby Lowther

College: Wolfson

Supervisor: Louise Mycock

"Developing an LFG lexicalist analysis of syntactic constraints on bilingual code-switched utterances."

Federico Manglavite

College: Hertford

Supervisor: Bjarke Frellesvig

Caolan O'Neill

College: Pembroke

Supervisor: Deborah Cameron

Nilo Pedrazzini

College: 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

College: Trinity

Supervisor: Deborah Cameron

Lilja Saeboe

College: Balliol

Supervisor: Wolfgang De Melo

Anna Sapuntsova

College: Jesus

Supervisor: Hanne Eckhoff, Aditi Lahiri, Hilary Wynne

Wyn Shaw

College: St Hilda's

Supervisor: Sam Wolfe

Yiwei Si

College: Balliol

Supervisor: Kerstin Hoge

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

Pat Snidvongs

College: Worcester

Supervisor: Philomen Probert

Leah Sternefeld

College: St Hilda's

Supervisor: Aditi Lahiri, Jose Elias-Ulloa

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

Will Thurlwell

College: Wolfson

Supervisor: Howard Jones

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

Germanic
Old High German
Old Saxon
historical linguistics

Renger van Dasselaar

College: St Cross

Supervisor: Jose Elias-Ulloa

"A Typology of Tone in the Kainantu Languages of Papua New Guinea"

morphophonology
phonetics
Papuan languages
tone

Jonathan Wei

College: Worcester

Supervisor: John Coleman, Wolfgang De Melo

Daniel Worthing

College: St Anne's

Supervisor: John Coleman, Paul Chilton

Chen Xie

College: Hertford

Supervisor: Louise Mycock

Chenzi Xu

College: St Hugh's

Supervisor: John Coleman

Runyi Yao

College: Wolfson

Supervisor: Matthew Husband, Daniel Altshuler

"Intra-sentential coherence and sentence processing"

Huinan Zeng

College: Trinity

Supervisor: Aditi Lahiri, Holly Kennard

Jiarui Zhang

College: Balliol

Supervisor: Holly Kennard, Aditi Lahiri

Admin Team

Dan Holloway

Head of Administration and Finance

Camilla Rock

Academic Administrator
Mon 8am-5.30pm; Tue 8.00am-4.00pm; Wed 8.30am-2.30pm

Lorraine Watling

Research Administrator
Mon, Tue & Thu afternoons; Wed all-day

Lorraine Rathband

Finance Officer

Liberty Braddyll

Academic Administrative Assistant
Mon, Tue & Thu 9am-5pm; Fri 9am-4.15pm

IT Team

Please use this email address to contact the IT Team: it-support@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk

Chris Grimshaw

IT Officer

Daniel Yee

IT Officer (Linux Specialist)

John Pybus

Phonetics Project IT Officer

Uliana Lavrentieva

Language & Brain Lab Manager

David Allen

Web & Database Developer

Professor Jean Aitchison

Rupert Murdoch Professor of Communication (retired)

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