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Professor Jennifer Smith holds the title of Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Glasgow's Department of English Language & Linguistics. She completed her MA at Durham University and PhD at the University of York. Her research focuses on sociolinguistics, language variation/change, and Scots dialects, supported by major grants from ESRC, AHRC, and the British Academy. She is principal investigator of Speak for Yersel and co-creator of The Scots Syntax Atlas.
Her work bridges syntax and sociolinguistics, analyzing Scots' morphosyntactic features and children's dialect acquisition. Key themes include negative concord, vernacular reorganization, and sociolinguistic monitoring theory. She has supervised over a dozen PhD students researching topics like codeswitching, Scots revitalization, and linguistic variation in theater.
Recent projects include AHRC-funded dialect documentation and investigations into Shetland generational language shift. She maintains active roles as external examiner at UK universities and serves on the Journal of Linguistics editorial board. Her teaching spans sociolinguistics, research methods, and variationist theory.
