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Dr Richard Ashdowne

Lecturer in Classical Languages, University College

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

Professor Wolfgang De Melo

University Lecturer in Classical Philology

Dr Hanne Eckhoff

Associate Professor in Russian Linguistics and Comparative Slavonic Philology

Dr Jan Fellerer

University Lecturer in Non-Russian Slavonic Languages

• Slavonic
• history of Polish
• Czech
• Ukrainian
• discourse analysis

Dr Howard Jones

Fellow and Lecturer in Linguistics, Keble College

• Germanic
• semantics
• historical linguistics

Professor Aditi Lahiri CBE FBA

Emerita Professor of Linguistics

• phonology
• phonetics
• historical linguistics
• psycholinguistics
• neurolinguistics

Dr Emily Lindsay-Smith

Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Language & Brain Lab

Dr John J. Lowe

Associate Professor of Sanskrit

• syntax
• semantics
• Indo-Iranian
• historical linguistics
• Indo-European linguistics

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 Robin Meyer

• historical linguistics
• language contact
• Armenian
• Iranian
• Latin
• Ancient Greek
• historical syntax

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

Dr John Penney

University Lecturer in Classical Philology

Professor Philomen Probert

Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics

• Ancient Greek
• Anatolian
• Indo-European linguistics
• Graeco-Roman grammar
• historical linguistics
• phonology

Dr Elizabeth Tucker

Jill Hart Senior Research Fellow in Indo-Iranian Philology

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

Professor Andreas Willi FBA

Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology