Roxanne Taylor

Roxanne Taylor is a Lecturer in English at the Department of Media, Humanities and the Arts within the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Manchester (2019-2023) and a Master's in Ancient Greek Linguistics from the University of Oxford (2017-2019). Her academic profile includes external examiner roles at the University of Essex (2024-2028) and visiting research fellowships with Pennine Heritage Limited.

• Education: PhD (University of Manchester), MA (University of Oxford)
• External Roles: University of Essex Examiner (2024-2028), Pennine Heritage Visiting Fellow

Taylor's research spans historical syntax, corpus linguistics, and Holocaust studies with focus on language use. Her work examines grammatical functions in Old English noun phrases, adposition evolution in Present-Day English, and syntactic/semantic patterns in ancient Greek texts. Current supervision includes projects on bilingualism and pragmatic developments in English.

Recent research output includes analyses of argument realization, grammaticalization processes, and valency patterns across diachronic and synchronic frameworks. While no formal awards are listed, her contributions intersect with UN Sustainable Development Goals for education.

• Supervision: English-Punjabi bilingualism, Pragmatics PhD projects
• Methodologies: Corpus-based analysis, Lexical Functional Grammar, Historical syntax