Research

My research interests are in:

The verbal categories of tense, aspect, voice, and mood;

The early Germanic languages;

Linguistic aspects of the work of Martin Luther.

For my finance research interests, see here.

Teaching

Undergraduate

German. Finals: Old High German (Paper V/1), Germanic Philology (Paper XII).

Linguistics. Prelims: Linguistic Theory (L2); Finals: Historical Linguistics (Paper XII), Linguistic Theory (Paper XIII).

Postgraduate

MSt, MPhil, and DPhil in Germanic and in German historical linguistics.

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

'The perfect in Homeric Greek: A functional account', with Oliver Jones and Morgan Macleod, Glotta, forthcoming.

‘Semantics and syntax in Old English mood selection’, with Morgan Macleod, Transactions of the Philological Society 118(2), 304–39 (2020).

‘The vocabulary of righteousness in Martin Luther’s New Testament translations’, Oxford German Studies 47(4), 381–416 (2018).

‘The status of passive constructions in Old English’, with Morgan Macleod, Transactions of the Philological Society 116(1), 59–90 (2018).

‘On the early origins of the Germanic preterite presents’, with William Randall, Transactions of the Philological Society 113(2), 137–76 (2015).

‘Reference time and the English past tenses’, with W. P. M. Meyer-Viol, Linguistics and Philosophy 34(3), 223–56 (2011).

Monograph

'Aktionsart' in the Old High German Passive. Hamburg: Helmut Buske (2009), 272 pages.

Editions and translations

Martin Luther, An Open Letter on Translating and the Intercession of Saints, ed. by Howard Jones and Henrike Lähnemann, translated by Howard Jones, Oxford: Taylor Institution Library (2022), 156 pages.

Martin Luther, On the Freedom of a Christian, ed. by Howard Jones and Henrike Lähnemann, Oxford: Taylor Institution Library (2020), 222 pages.

‘The German and Latin versions’ in Martin Luther, On the Freedom of a Christian, ed. by Howard Jones and Henrike Lähnemann, Oxford: Taylor Institution Library (2020), pages 72–90.

Martin Luther, Sermon on Indulgences and Grace & 95 Theses, ed. by Howard Jones et al., translated by Howard Jones, Oxford: Taylor Institution Library (2018), 145 pages.

Martin Luther, An Open Letter on Translating, edition and translation by Howard Jones et al., Oxford: Taylor Institution Library (2017).

Reference works/textbooks

An Introduction to Middle High German, with Martin H. Jones, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2024), 352 pages.

The Oxford Guide to Middle High German, with Martin H. Jones, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2019), 736 pages.