Current PhD students
Read about the theses and research interests of some of our current PhD students in Linguistics and English Language.
- Samer Ahmed - 'Xerbi Kurmanji: A morphosyntactic and structural analysis’ (supervised by Yaron Matras and Eva Schultze-Berndt).
- Aseel Almuhaimeed - 'Phonological Processes in the Najdi Arabic Dialect: An Optimality Theory Approach' (supervised by Wendell Kimper and Yuni Kim).
- Juliette Angot - 'A Cross-Cultural Study of French and Korean Epistemic Markers' (supervised by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Martina Faller).
- Massimiliano Canzi - 'Lexical Knowledge and its Influence on Speech Perception' (supervised by Wendell Kimper).
- Maria Chioti - 'The Effect of Priming on Accent Attitudes: An Investigation of their Affective and Cognitive Bases' (supervised by Wendell Kimper and Marije Van Hattum).
- Leonie Gaiser - 'Arabic in a Global Diaspora - Maintenance of and Provisions for Arabic in Manchester, UK' (supervised by Yaron Matras and Rebecca Tipton).
- Roisin Huggins - 'A Comparative Investigation of the Diachronic Pragmatics of Negation in the Romance Languages' (supervised by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Delia Bentley).
- Chit Fung Lam - 'The Typology of Null Subject Languages: A Lexical-Functional Grammar Analysis' (supervised by Kersti Börjars and Eva Schultze-Berndt).
- Alina Mclellan - 'Modality and its Interaction with Tense and Aspect in Reunionese Creole' (supervised by Delia Bentley).
- Lorenzo Moretti - 'Do Between Modal Auxiliaries in Early Modern English: A Usage-Based Study' (supervised by Tine Breban and Kersti Börjars).
- Anh Khoi Nguyen - 'Heritage Language Maintenance in an 'Integrated' Minority' (supervised by Yaron Matras).
- Stephen Nichols - 'The Phonology and Typology of Height Harmony in the Bantu Languages' (supervised by Wendell Kimper and Yuni Kim).
- Colin Rutland - 'Vagueness in Nouns and Adjectives: Towards a Unifying Theory' (supervised by Andrew Koontz-Garboden and Martina Faller).
- Zainab Salloo - 'Heritage Language Use, Maintenance and Identity in Manchester's South Asian Community' (supervised by Yaron Matras).
- Roxanne Taylor - 'Argument Structure and Genitive Modification in the Old English Noun Phrase' (supervised by Kersti Börjars and Tine Breban).
- Kaiyue Xing - 'The Sociophonetics and Phonology of Mandarin Rhoticity' (supervised by Maciej Baranowski and Patrycja Strycharczuk).