Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Staff and their research interests

• Professor Wendy Bennett (Murray Edwards College)
  History of Linguistic Thought; Historical Linguistics; French Linguistics
  
  
• Dr Theresa Biberauer
  Theoretical and Comparative Syntax

• Dr James Blevins
  Syntax; Morphology; Computational Linguistics; Pedagogical and Contrastive Linguistics

• Dr Paula Buttery
  Computational Linguistics; Automated Corpus Analysis; Computational Models of Language Acquisition
  
  
• Dr Jeroen Geertzen
  Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing; Computational Dialogue Modelling; Grammatical Inference
  
  
• Professor John Hawkins
  English Grammar from a Psycholinguistic Perspective; Efficiency and Complexity in Language Use; Typology and Universals; Pragmatics
  
  
• Dr Henriette Hendriks
  Language and Cognition; Comparison of First and Second Language Acquisition; Discourse Analysis; Psycholinguistics
  
  
• Professor Kasia Jaszczolt (Newnham College)
  Semantics and Pragmatics
  
  
• Dr Napoleon Katsos
  Theoretical and Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, Reasoning and Rhetoric
  
  
• Dr Anna Korhonen
  Computational Linguistis, Natural Language Processing; Automatic Lexical Acquisition

• Dr Stephen Pax Leonard (Trinity Hall)
  Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology

• Dr Kirsty McDougall (Clare College)
  Phonetics

• Professor Peter Matthews (Emeritus Professor, St John's College)
  Grammar; Linguistic Theory

• Professor Francis Nolan
  Phonetics
  
  
• Dr Teresa Parodi
  First and Second Language Acquisition, Syntax and Morphology
  
  
• Dr Thierry Poibeau
  Natural Language Processing
  
  
• Dr Brechtje Post (Jesus College)
  Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics
  

• Professor Ian Roberts (Downing College)
  Comparative and Historical Syntax
  
  
• Dr Laura Rimmell
  Computational Linguistics; Computational Lexical Semantics; Automatic Lexical Acquisition; Natural Language Parsing; Argument Structure
  

• Dr Michelle Sheehan
  Comparative Syntax
  
• Dr Jenneke van der Wal
  Comparative Syntax; Bantu Languages; Discourse

• Dr Bert Vaux (King's College)
  Phonology; Morphology; Language Variation
  
  
• Dr John Williams
  Psycholinguistics; Cognitive Psychology; Second Language Learning

• Dr David Willis (Selwyn College)
  Historical Linguistics; Syntax; Celtic and Slavonic Languages
  
  

Go to top