جست‌وجوی استاد و پژوهشگر

• Historical Linguistics
• Tibetan Studies
• Sino-Tibetan Languages
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Professor Nathan Hill is affiliated with the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at SOAS University of London . His research spans historical linguistics, computational approaches to language comparison, and Tibetan studies. Specializes in Sino-Tibetan and Tibeto-Burman languages Pioneering work in digital humanities for Tibetan scripts Focus on documenting and analyzing endangered language features Research Trends from his recent publications include: Computational methods for cognate analysis and phonetic alignment Historical morphology of Tibetan and related languages Digital preservation of Sanskrit and Newar manuscripts Phonetic transcription systems for classical languages Pragmatic structures in Old Tibetan texts Interdisciplinary work bridging linguistics and Buddhist studies Supervision includes theses on Mandarin Chinese connectives and Old Tibetan pragmatics. His methodological contributions emphasize open data and reproducible research in linguistic analysis.

• Pragmatic Markers
• Sociolinguistics
• Language Variation and Change
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Dr. Kate Beeching is an Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the University of the West of England , serving as Director of the Bristol Centre for Linguistics . Her research spans pragmatic markers, sociolinguistics, language variation, and intercultural communication. Her work explores how social interaction shapes lexical meaning, focusing on the evolution of pragmatic markers like "sort of" and "enfin" in English and French. She employs empirical, quantitative, and corpus-based methods across historical, literary, courtroom, and contemporary spoken corpora. Recent research trends include cross-linguistic pragmatic development, discourse markers in multimodal contexts, and phonological variation in Bristol English. She has co-edited four volumes and contributed to journals, book chapters, and special issues. Dr. Beeching has supervised 14 PhD students and authored eight French textbooks. Her affiliations include the Bristol Centre for Linguistics, and she has published extensively on politeness theories, semantic change, and translation studies.

• Psycholinguistics
• Numerical Cognition
• Cognitive Psychology
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Sandie Cleland is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen, where she has been employed since 2006 and promoted to her current rank in 2013. A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, she actively supervises PhD students and contributes to the department's research profile in cognitive sciences. Her academic journey includes an MA from the University of Glasgow (1998) and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh (2002), supervised by Professor Martin Pickering and Professor Holly Branigan. Post-PhD, she held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Edinburgh followed by a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of York (2003-2006) working with Professor Gareth Gaskell and Dr Philip Quinlan. Dr Cleland's research spans psycholinguistics and numerical cognition , investigating how language production interacts with attentional mechanisms and spatial-numerical associations. Current projects examine idiomatic language production (with Dr Emily Nordmann), bilingual language processing (with Jennifer Mattschey), and number-space relationships (with Dr Rebecca Bull). Her work frequently explores polysemy effects, syntactic priming, and the cognitive architecture underlying fixed expressions. Analysis of her 20+ publications reveals a dual trajectory: sustained contributions to psycholinguistics (particularly lexical ambiguity and syntactic representation) alongside growing focus on numerical cognition since 2012, with recent work emphasizing spatial-numerical interactions and methodological innovations in SNARC effect research. Her scientific recognition includes: Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy She has successfully supervised PhD students including Dr Emily Nordmann, Dr Bernadet Jager, and Dr Tom Mitchell. Key collaborations extend to Dr Rebecca Bull (National Institute of Education, Singapore) and Dr Alissa Melinger (University of Dundee), supported by grants including her ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her teaching encompasses Level 2 Language & Cognition, Level 4 Advanced Topics in Language, and MRes funding application training. Within Aberdeen's School of Psychology, she contributes to the Cognitive Psychology research group, advancing experimental work on language-numerical cognition interfaces through laboratory-based behavioral studies.

• Language Acquisition
• Syntax Processing
• Theory of Mind
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Professor Silke Brandt is a faculty member at Lancaster University's School of Social Sciences. Her research investigates language acquisition, syntax processing, and cognitive development through experimental studies and corpus analysis. She serves as a member of the ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD), leading projects on communicative development from 2014 to 2025. Her research interests include: Language acquisition and processing of complex syntax Interactions between linguistic development and social cognition (Theory of Mind) Syntactic priming and implicit learning mechanisms Information structure and word order effects in language development Cognitive/usage-based linguistics and construction grammar Professor Brandt actively supervises PhD students, including Xiao Ke, and welcomes applications in first language acquisition, sentence processing, and language-Theory of Mind interactions. Her outreach includes school engagement programs like 'Linguistics in the City' at institutions such as Cardinal Newman College and Loreto College.

Maria Clotilde Camboniمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر ارشد

• Medieval Italian Literature
• Renaissance Literary Studies
• Cultural History
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Maria Clotilde Camboni is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. She holds a PhD and Laurea in Italian Studies from the University of Pisa. Her research focuses on the evolution of medieval Italian vernacular literary traditions and their Renaissance reinterpretations. Previously, she held the Marco Praloran postdoctoral fellowship (2013-2015) at Florence’s Franceschini Foundation and Lausanne University, and the Le Studium fellowship at Tours’ Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (2016-2017). She taught full-time at Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand and collaborated on projects across Italian and Swiss institutions. Her work bridges textual analysis, cultural history, and interdisciplinary approaches to medieval and Renaissance Italian literature. Key interests include poetic form, manuscript culture, and the construction of literary canons. Recent publications explore the Raccolta Aragonese’s role in shaping Renaissance literary discourse and Boccaccio’s Decameron ’s narrative techniques. She has contributed to peer-reviewed journals like Modern Language Notes and Studi mediolatini e volgari , with monographs on medieval poetic perception and intertextuality. Awards include the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship (current), Marco Praloran fellowship, and Le Studium fellowship. Her research often involves collaborative projects, such as semantic indexing studies using the Nuovo Soggettario framework. She is also engaged in digital humanities initiatives, blending traditional philology with modern analytical tools.

Hagit Borerمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Comparative Syntax
• Morphosyntax
• Language Acquisition
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Hagit Borer is a Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film (SLLF), Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on comparative syntax, morphosyntax, and language acquisition within the generative framework. She proposes that inter-grammatical variation stems from the functional/inflectional component, leading to a morphosyntactic model. Her recent work shifts computational demands from lexical entries to syntactic structures, emphasizing structural constraints over lexical specifications. Education: PhD in Linguistics from MIT. Research Interests include syntax-semantics interfaces, word formation, and the role of functional categories in grammar. She advocates for syntactic derivation of complex words and explores non-compositionality through functional structure. Key contributions address nominalizations, agentive activities, and the syntax of adjectives. Selected Awards: Fellow of the British Academy (2014), Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (2018). Advocacy: Active in academic activism, notably challenging Israeli policies through public engagement. Labs/Teams: Collaborates with the Formal Linguistics Research Group at Queen Mary.

Coppe van Urkمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Minimalist syntax
• Theoretical linguistics
• Austronesian languages
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Coppe van Urk is a Reader in Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London, holding a PhD from MIT and affiliated with the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film. His academic profile shows active engagement with theoretical linguistics and regular office hours in ArtsOne 1.17B. Dr. van Urk's research centers on minimalist syntax with particular focus on understudied languages, especially Dinka and Austronesian languages. His work spans multiple linguistic domains including: Syntactic theory and operations Morphological systems across diverse languages Austronesian and Nilo-Saharan language families Constructed languages and their theoretical implications Cross-linguistic variation in syntactic phenomena Theoretical implications of language documentation His publication record demonstrates consistent theoretical engagement with syntax while drawing evidence from diverse linguistic sources. Van Urk frequently uses understudied languages like Dinka to reveal insights about universal grammar through language-specific phenomena, showing how syntactic operations interact with other components of grammar across diverse language families. His research bridges theoretical syntax with morphological and typological considerations. Dr. van Urk maintains an active research agenda with publications spanning from 2010 to 2024. His recent work including 'Constraining predicate fronting' (2024) continues his exploration of core syntactic operations. His research demonstrates methodological consistency in using language-specific phenomena to address broader theoretical questions in generative grammar.

Ben Ambridgeمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Developmental Psychology
• Language Acquisition
• Linguistics
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Ben Ambridge is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Liverpool, specializing in child language acquisition, syntax, and morphology. His research focuses on how children learn grammar across multiple languages, including English, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, and others. He is also involved in Open Science initiatives, founding the journal Language Development Research , and has authored popular books like Psy-Q and Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee? . He teaches Psychology in the Real World on the Psychology BSc programme. His work integrates computational modeling, cross-linguistic studies, and experimental methods. Key areas include overgeneralization errors in child language, semantic constraints in syntax, and the role of input frequency in language learning. Collaborations span institutions globally, contributing to projects like ACCLAIM, exploring inflectional morphology across languages. Ambridge's research emphasizes empirical rigor, with studies published in journals like Cognition , Cognitive Science , and Developmental Science . He has supervised numerous studies on topics such as passive constructions, pronoun interpretation, and cross-linguistic acquisition, often employing pre-registered and open science practices.

Fang Jackson-Yangمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس

• Psycholinguistics
• Language-mediated Attention
• Second Language Acquisition
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Fang Jackson-Yang is a psycholinguist and lecturer at the University of Edinburgh's Psychology Department within the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. She holds teaching roles across undergraduate and postgraduate programs including Data Analysis in R, Psychological Research Skills, and Second Language Teaching Curriculum. Her research focuses on prominence in language, language-mediated attention, and Mandarin syntax, employing experimental methods and corpus studies. She has presented at leading conferences like AMLaP and IACL, and her work appears in journals such as Discourse Processes and Royal Society Open Science . Education includes MSc/PhD studies at Beijing Language and Culture University, University of Sheffield, University of Manchester, and University of Edinburgh. Her teaching spans quantitative research skills, language acquisition, and multilingual education. She supervises MSc dissertations and has organized academic events including the 2024 AMLaP conference in Edinburgh. Research explores how speakers encode conceptual prominence in transitive sentences and hearers decode attentional cues through eye-tracking experiments. Past work includes Mandarin left-periphery corpus studies and second language acquisition of topic-comment structures. Active in academic service, she reviews for Discourse Processes and Linguistic Inquiry .

Tamara Polajnarمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Natural Language Processing
• Computational Linguistics
• Distributional Semantics
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Dr. Tamara Polajnar is a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on computational linguistics and natural language processing, with particular emphasis on distributional semantics and semantic compositionality. Her research interests span multiple areas including computational semantics, distributional models, and semantic composition. She develops tensor-based methods for representing meaning and investigates techniques for semantic analysis of text at different levels from phrases to documents. Her work combines theoretical linguistics with practical machine learning approaches. Her publications primarily focus on compositional distributional semantics, exploring how to effectively combine word vectors to represent larger linguistic units. Recent work examines discourse-level representations and evaluation methods for semantic models. She has contributed datasets and frameworks that advance the understanding of how computational models can capture linguistic phenomena. She actively contributes to the research community through the development of specialized datasets and evaluation resources. Her work on RELPRON provides valuable resources for evaluating compositional distributional models, while her research on short scientific summaries addresses challenges in processing academic text.

Michael Fourmanمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Logic in Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Cognitive Science
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Michael Fourman is a Professor of Computer Systems at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, within the College of Science and Engineering. His research focuses on applications of logic in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Science, with contributions to formal methods, programming language semantics, and hardware specification. He has advised numerous PhD students and collaborated on EPSRC-funded projects, including work on probabilistic reasoning and program development tools like PropPlan. His research interests bridge mathematical logic, computer science, and cognitive science, emphasizing formal representations and their practical applications. He has explored categorical semantics for programming languages, hardware design tools, and AI planning systems. Recent work includes integrating logical and probabilistic reasoning frameworks. Key tools developed include PropPlan (BDD-based planner) and PropSat , alongside contributions to formal verification and categorical logic. His publications span over four decades, addressing topics from intuitionistic logic to modern informatics challenges.

Ross Patersonمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس

• Functional Programming
• Programming Languages
• Type Theory
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Dr. Ross Paterson is a Lecturer at City St George's, University of London, where he has been employed since 1998. He is a member of the Research Centre for Machine Learning and specializes in programming languages and functional programming. His research interests focus on functional programming techniques, embedded domain-specific languages, program transformations, and persistent data structures. His work bridges theoretical computer science with practical applications in programming language design and implementation. Dr. Paterson's publication record spans over three decades, with significant contributions to functional programming, type theory, and data structures. His most influential work includes the development of arrows as a general interface to computation, applicative functors, and finger trees as a general-purpose data structure. His research shows consistent focus on theoretical foundations with practical implementations in functional programming languages. Throughout his career, Dr. Paterson has maintained strong academic connections, having previously worked at the University of North London (1996-1998), Imperial College London (1990-1995), and the University of Queensland (1988-1989).

Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigogaمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر ارشد

• Theoretical Linguistics
• Semantics
• Pragmatics
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Dr Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga is a Senior Research Associate at the University of East Anglia (UEA), affiliated with the School of Politics, Philosophy and Area Studies, and an affiliated lecturer at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on theoretical linguistics, semantics, and their interfaces with syntax, pragmatics, and bilingualism. She specializes in generics (statements like 'Tigers have stripes') and investigates their interpretation across monolingual and bilingual populations (Greek, English, Spanish). Her work combines theoretical and experimental methods. Education: PhD in Cognitive Science and Language (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), DEA (Masters) in Cognitive Science, and Greek Philology with Linguistics specialization (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Research interests include language acquisition, bilingualism, and the philosophy of language. She has held academic positions at institutions in the UK, Germany, Greece, and Spain. Recent projects include 'Experimental argument analysis: Reasoning with stereotypes' (Fritz Thyssen Stiftung-funded) and 'Investigating generics across languages: a toolkit'. Her publications explore topics such as verbal fluency in bilinguals, polysemy, and generics across age groups and languages. Advising & Grants: Leads the 'Investigating generics across languages' project (2024–2026) and collaborates on interdisciplinary research. She is a core member of the UEA Experimental Philosophy Group and contributes to interdisciplinary networks in cognitive science and linguistics.

Daniel Altshulerمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Semantics
• Pragmatics
• Context Dependence
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Daniel Altshuler is an Associate Professor of Semantics at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, serving as Tutorial Fellow at Jesus College and Lecturer at Brasenose College. He holds a BA in Philosophy from UCLA and a PhD in Linguistics from Rutgers University. His research explores context dependence in semantics and pragmatics, investigating compositional semantics, discourse structure/coherence, and literary extensions of dynamic-semantic frameworks. Core interests include temporal interpretation, narrative discourse, pragmatic inference, and cross-modal communication. His publications demonstrate sustained focus on discourse coherence mechanisms, temporal semantics, and pragmatic interfaces across diverse linguistic phenomena. Recent work integrates literary analysis with formal semantics and extends into computational modeling of language processing.

• Syntax-Semantics Interface
• Language Variation and Change
• Cognitive Metaphor Theory
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Evi Sifaki is an Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick. She serves as the departmental Director of Student Experience, coordinating initiatives to enhance student participation and learning environments. Her research focuses on syntax-semantics interfaces, language change in Greek and English, and applied linguistics projects involving Cognitive Metaphor Theory in economic discourse. She has taught theoretical modules like Syntax, Morphology, and Sociolinguistics, alongside applied courses such as Qualitative Research Methods. Her research explores topics including null arbitrary subjects in Greek, preposition-drop phenomena, and the conceptual metaphors underlying economic terminology. She has investigated historical language shifts and EDI-related issues like employability skills in diverse student groups. Her work bridges formal linguistic theory with sociocultural applications, contributing to both Greek and English linguistics literature. Notable publications include analyses of Greek syntax structures (e.g., VOS orders, EPP-driven mechanisms) and collaborative studies on metaphorical framing in economic language. Her review of Parametric Variation: Null Subjects in Minimalist Theory highlights her engagement with foundational linguistic theory.