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

Professor Thea Cameron-Faulkner

• Professor of Linguistics
• Research areas: Prelinguistic communication, interaction and language development
• View Prof 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

Dr Leonie Gaiser

• Lecturer in Linguistics
• Research areas: Sociolinguistics, multilingualism, linguistic Landscapes, language policy, ethnography
• View Dr Leonie Gaiser’s research profile
• Email: leonie.gaiser@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
• View Prof Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen's research profile
• Email: maj-britt.mosegaardHansen@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

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)
• Email: donald.morrison@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Andrea Nini

• Senior 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

Dr Serge Sagna

• Lecturer in Linguistics
• Research areas: First language acquisition, sociolinguistics (esp. multilingualism), typology, lexical semantics, field linguistics
• Email: serge.sagna@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

• Senior 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, bilingualism 
• 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, LFG
• Email: richard.zimmermann@manchester.ac.uk

Postdoctoral Researchers

• Dr Lisa Donlan – ESRC Postdoctoral Researcher
• Dr Emily Hanink – 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 

Professor of Linguistics and Pragmatics