Academic staff
Meet the people that make up our Department of Linguistics and English Language
The department of Linguistics and English Language has a diverse staff, working in a wide range of different areas.
Academic staff
Dr Colin Bannard
- Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
- Research areas: Computational linguistics, language development, psycholinguistics, data science and statistics
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- Email: colin.bannard@manchester.ac.uk
Dr Maciej Baranowski
- Senior Lecturer in English Sociolinguistics
- Research areas: Language variation and change (especially in phonetics and phonology), accents of English, variationist sociolinguistics
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- Email: maciej.baranowski@manchester.ac.uk
Professor Delia Bentley
- Professor of Romance Linguistics
- Research areas: Syntactic microvariation, the syntax-lexical semantics interface, syntactic theories (role and reference grammar and cartography), Romance
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- Email: delia.bentley@manchester.ac.uk
Dr Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero
- Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language
- Research areas: Phonology, morphology, diachrony
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- Email: ricardo.bermudez-otero@manchester.ac.uk
Dr Tine Breban
- Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics
- Research areas: Historical linguistics, English grammar, cognitive and functional linguistics
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- Email: tine.breban@manchester.ac.uk
Professor Thea Cameron-Faulkner
- Professor of Linguistics
- Research areas: Prelinguistic communication, interaction and language development
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- Email: t.cameron@manchester.ac.uk
Dr Simone De Cia
- Lecturer in Linguistics
- Research areas: Syntax, Romance linguistics (Northern Italian Dialects, Friulian, Rhaeto-Romance), sociolinguistics, language endangerment and documentation
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- Email: simone.decia@manchester.ac.uk
Dr Martina Faller
- Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
- Research areas: Semantics, pragmatics, descriptive morphology, Quechua
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- Email: martina.t.faller@manchester.ac.uk
Professor Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
- Professor of Linguistics and Pragmatics, Mont Follick Chair in Comparative Philology
- Research areas: Semantics, pragmatics, verbal interaction, historical linguistics, functional-cognitive linguistics, French and Romance linguistics
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- Email: maj-britt.mosegaardHansen@manchester.ac.uk
Dr Leigh Harrington
- Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language
- Research areas: critical discourse analysis, socio-pragmatics, language and power, language and social justice, communication of debt collection, discourses of poverty and destitution
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- Email: leigh.harrington@manchester.ac.uk
Dr Vera Hohaus
- Lecturer in Linguistics
- Research areas: semantics, the syntax-semantics interface, cross-linguistic variation, diachronic semantics, Austronesian languages
- Director of the Psycholinguistics Laboratory
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- Email: vera.hohaus@manchester.ac.uk
Dr Wendell Kimper
- Lecturer in Linguistics
- Research areas: Experimental phonology and phonetics, quantitative methods
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- Email: wendell.kimper@manchester.ac.uk
Professor Andrew Koontz-Garboden
- Professor of Linguistics
- Research areas: Semantics, Morphosyntax, Field Linguistics
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- Email: andrewkg@manchester.ac.uk
Professor April McMahon
- Professor of Linguistics, Vice-President for Teaching, Learning and Students
- Research areas: Evolutionary linguistics, historical linguistics, phonology
Dr Donald Alasdair Morrison
- Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology
- Research areas: Phonology, phonetics, Celtic (specially Scottish Gaelic)
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- Email: donald.morrison@manchester.ac.uk
Dr Dmitry Nikolaev
- Lecturer in Computational Linguistics
- Research areas: Computational linguistics, linguistic typology, phonology, digital humanities, computational social sciences
- Email: dmitry.nikolaev@manchester.ac.uk
Dr Andrea Nini
- Senior Lecturer in English Language
- Research areas: Forensic linguistics, cognitive linguistics, register variation, idiolect, authorship analysis
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- Email: andrea.nini@manchester.ac.uk
Dr Serge Sagna
- Lecturer in Linguistics
- Research areas: First language acquisition, sociolinguistics (esp. multilingualism), typology, lexical semantics, field linguistics
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- Email: serge.sagna@manchester.ac.uk
Professor Eva Schultze-Berndt
- Professor of Linguistics, Head of Department
- Research areas: Typology, syntax, field linguistics
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- Email: eva.schultze-berndt@manchester.ac.uk
Dr Patrycja Strycharczuk
- Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Quantitative Methods
- Director of the Phonetics Laboratory
- Research areas: Phonetics, phonology, sound change
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- Email: patrycja.strycharczuk@manchester.ac.uk
Dr Julio Villa-García
- Senior Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics and Syntax
- Research areas: Generative syntax, Spanish/Romance linguistics, bilingualism
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- Email: julio.villa-garcia@manchester.ac.uk
Dr Richard Zimmermann
- Lecturer in English Language
- Research areas: Historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, diachronic syntax, LFG
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- Email: richard.zimmermann@manchester.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Researchers
- Dr Ryan Walter Smith – Research Associate
- Dr Jens Hopperdietzel – Research Associate
Emeriti
- Professor David Denison - Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics
- Professor John Payne - Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
- Professor Nigel Vincent - Professor Emeritus (Mont Follick Chair) of General and Romance Linguistics
- Professor Alan Cruttenden - Professor Emeritus in Phonetics
Honorary Professors
- Professor Kersti Börjars - Professor of Linguistics
Honorary Lecturers and Research Fellows
- Dr Martin Barry
- Dr Margit Bowler
- Dr Annabella-Gloria Niculescu-Gorpin
- Dr Thanh Nyan
- Dr Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
- Dr Emily Hanink – Research Associate