Lisa Gotthard

Lisa Gotthard is a Lecturer in English Language at the University of Edinburgh, affiliated with the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. She specializes in syntactic variation and change in Early Modern English and Scots, leveraging parsed corpora for linguistic analysis. Her work focuses on anglicisation processes, language contact, and historical sociolinguistics.

Education:

• B.A. (Hons) in Linguistics, University of York (2013-2016)
• M.Sc. (Distinction) in English Language, University of Edinburgh (2016-2017)
• Ph.D. in Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh (2018-2022), supervised by Bettelou Los, Rob Truswell, and others

Research interests include syntactic change mechanisms, corpus methodologies, and cross-Germanic comparisons. She co-leads the project 'Modelling lexical diffusion in syntax: non-finite complementation in Modern English' (SILPAC Research Unit) and collaborates internationally with institutions like the University of Konstanz.

Her teaching includes courses on Scots morphosyntax and language variation. She is actively involved in PhD supervision and maintains affiliations with the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics.