Teaching staff

David Adger, PhD (Edinburgh)
Professor of Linguistics
Room: ArtsOne 1.20
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8289
email:

Research interests: Syntactic Theory, Syntax and its interfaces, Linking syntactic and variationist approaches to variable phenomena.

Hagit Borer, PhD (MIT)
Professor of Linguistics
Room: ArtsOne 1.12
email:

Research interests: Comparative syntax, morphosyntax and language acquisition

Jenny Cheshire, PhD (Reading)

Professor of Linguistics
Room: ArtsOne 1.09A
Tel +44 (0)20 7882 8293
email:

Research interests: Sciolinguistics: language variation and change, Language contact, Conversational narrative, Spoken language: syntactic and discourse structures.

Colleen Cotter, PhD (Berkeley)

Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Room: ArtsOne 1.14
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8294
email:

Research interests: Sociolinguistics, Discourse analysis, Ethnography of communication, News media language, Endangered and lesser-used languages, Irish (Gaelic), Language and culture, Language and identity, Public/written discourse, Language planning and policy, Technology and society, Lab newspaper/publication projects.

Paul Elbourne, PhD (MIT)

Reader in Semantics
Room: ArtsOne 1.17B
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8298
email:

Research interests: Semantics, Philosophy of language.

Carlos Gussenhoven, PhD (Nijmegen)

Professor of Linguistics
(on extended leave)

Daniel Harbour, PhD (MIT)
Reader in the Cognitive Science of Language
Room: ArtsOne 1.21
Tel +44 (0)20 7882 5739
email:

Esther de Leeuw, PhD (QMU)
Lecturer in Linguistics
Room: ArtsOne 1.09
Tel: +44 (0)207 882 5911
email:

Research interests: Phonetics, Bilingualism, L1 attrition, L2 acquisition, Discourse phenomena

Erez Levon, PhD (NYU)

Lecturer in Linguistics
Room: ArtsOne 1.17A
phone: +44 (0)20 7882 8435
email:

Research interests: Sociolinguistics; Language and identity (particularly gender, sexuality, ethnicity and their intersections); Style and indexicality; Speech perception.

Devyani Sharma, PhD (Stanford)

Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Room: ArtsOne 1.17C
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8338
email:

Research interests: Sociolinguistics, New varieties of English, Bilingualism, Variation, Syntax, Typology.

Linnaea Stockall, PhD (MIT)
Lecturer in Linguistics
Room: ArtsOne 1.10
phone: +44 (0)20 7882 5742
email:

Research interests: Morphology, Lexical semantics, Event semantics, Reading, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics.