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 Maciej Baranowski

• Senior Lecturer in English Sociolinguistics
• Research areas: Language variation and change (especially in phonetics and phonology), accents of English, variationist sociolinguistics
• View Dr Maciej Baranowski's research profile
• 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
• View Prof Delia Bentley's research profile
• Email: delia.bentley@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero

• Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language
• Research areas: Phonology, morphology, diachrony
• View Dr Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero's research profile
• Email: ricardo.bermudez-otero@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Tine Breban

• Senior Lecturer in English Language, Head of Department
• Research areas: Historical linguistics, cognitive and functional grammar
• View Dr Tine Breban's research profile
• Email: tine.breban@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Thea Cameron-Faulkner

• Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
• Research areas: Prelinguistic communication, interaction and language development
• View Dr Thea Cameron-Faulkner's research profile
• Email: t.cameron@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Martina Faller

• Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
• Research areas: Semantics, pragmatics, descriptive morphology, quechua
• View Dr Martina Faller's research profile
• Email: martina.t.faller@manchester.ac.uk

Professor Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen

• Professor of French Language and Linguistics
• Research areas: Semantics, pragmatics, verbal interaction, historical linguistics, functional-cognitive linguistics
• View Prof Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen's research profile
• Email: maj-britt.mosegaardHansen@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Marije van Hattum

• Lecturer in English Language
• Research areas: Historical sociolinguistics, language variation and change, corpus linguistics
• View Dr Marije Van Hattum's research profile
• Email: marije.vanhattum@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
• View Dr Hohaus' research profile
• Email: vera.hohaus@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Wendell Kimper

• Lecturer in Linguistics
• Research areas: Experimental phonology and phonetics, quantitative methods
• View Dr Wendell Kimper's research profile
• Email: wendell.kimper@manchester.ac.uk

Professor Andrew Koontz-Garboden

• Professor of Linguistics
• Research areas: Semantics, Morphosyntax, Field Linguistics
• View Prof Andrew Koontz-Garboden's research profile
• Email: andrewkg@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Viktor Leggio

• Lecturer in Linguistics
• View Dr Viktor Leggio's research profile
• Email: daniele.leggio@manchester.ac.uk  

Professor Yaron Matras

• Professor of Linguistics
• Research areas: Language contact, bilingualism, language documentation, language planning, typology
• View Prof Yaron Matras' research profile
• Email: yaron.matras@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Andrea Nini

• Lecturer in English Language
• Research areas: Forensic linguistics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, register variation, stylistics, idiolect, quantitative linguistics
• View Dr Andrea Nini's research profile
• Email: andrea.nini@manchester.ac.uk

Professor John Payne

• Mont Follick Chair, Professor of Linguistics
• Research areas: English grammar, syntax
• View Prof John Payne's research profile
• Email: john.payne@manchester.ac.uk

Professor Eva Schultze-Berndt

• Professor of Linguistics 
• Research areas: Typology, syntax, field linguistics
• View Prof Eva Schultze-Berndt's research profile
• Email: eva.schultze-berndt@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Patrycja Strycharczuk

• Lecturer in Linguistics and Quantitative Methods 
• Director of the Phonetics Laboratory
• Research areas: Phonetics, phonology, sound change
• View Dr Patrycja Strycharczuk's research profile
• Email: patrycja.strycharczuk@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Julio Villa-García

• Senior Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics and Syntax
• Research areas: Generative syntax, Spanish/romance linguistics, language acquisition
• View Dr Julio Villa-García's research profile
• Email: julio.villa-garcia@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Richard Zimmermann

• Lecturer in English Language
• Research areas: Corpus linguistics, diachronic syntax
• Email: richard.zimmermann@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Ariadne Loutrari

• Lecturer in Linguistics
• Research areas: Neurolinguistics, music psychology, language processing, psycholinguistics, first and second language acquisition
• Email: ariadne.loutrari@manchester.ac.uk

Emeriti

• Professor David Denison - Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics
• Professor Nigel Vincent - Professor Emeritus (Mont Follick Chair) of General and Romance Linguistics
• Professor Alan Cruttenden

Honorary Professors

• Professor Kersti Börjars - Professor of Linguistics

Honorary Research Fellows

• Dr Thanh Nyan
• Dr George Walkden
• Dr Nuria Yáñez-Bouza