Recent PhD students

Read examples of research subjects undertaken by graduates in Linguistics and English Language.

  • Roxanne Taylor - 'Argument realisation and argument structure in the Old English eventive noun phrase' (supervised by Kersti Börjars and Tine Breban).

  • Chit Fung Lam - 'Control and Complementation in Parallel Constraint-based Architecture: An Empirically Oriented Investigation of Mandarin Chinese' (supervised by Kersti Börjars and Eva Schultze-Berndt).

  • Maria Chioti (2023) 'Attitudes to English-English Accents: An Examination of Their Formation' (supervised by Wendell Kimper, Marije Van Hattum and Alex Baratta).

  • Alina McLellan (2023) 'Relative and cleft constructions in Kréol Rényoné'  (supervised by Delia Bentley and Eva Schultze-Berndt).

  • Roisin Cosnahan (2022) - 'A Comparative Investigation of the Diachronic Pragmatics of Negation in the Romance Languages' (supervised by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Delia Bentley).

  • Stephen Nichols (2022) - 'The Phonology and Typology of Height Harmony in the Bantu Languages' (supervised by Wendell Kimper and Yuni Kim).

  • Kaiyue Xing (2022) - 'The Sociophonetics and Phonology of Mandarin Rhoticity' (supervised by Maciej Baranowski and Patrycja Strycharczuk).

  • Anh Khoi Nguyen (2022) - 'Heritage Language Maintenance in an 'Integrated' Minority' (supervised by Yaron Matras).

  • Colin Rutland (2022) - 'Vagueness in Nouns and Adjectives: Towards a Unifying Theory' (supervised by Andrew Koontz-Garboden and Martina Faller).

  • Juliette Angot (2022) - 'A Cross-Cultural Study of French and Korean Epistemic Markers' (supervised by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Martina Faller).

  • Aseel Almuhaimeed (2022) - 'Phonological Processes in the Najdi Arabic Dialect: An Optimality Theory Approach' (supervised by Wendell Kimper and Yuni Kim).

  • Massimiliano Canzi (2021) - 'Lexical Knowledge and its Influence on Speech Perception' (supervised by Wendell Kimper and Patrycja Strycharczuk).

  • Lorenzo Moretti (2021) - 'Do Between Modal Auxiliaries in Early Modern English: A Usage-Based Study' (supervised by Tine Breban and Kersti Börjars).

  • Leonie Gaiser (2021) - 'Arabic in a Global Diaspora - Maintenance of and Provisions for Arabic in Manchester, UK' (supervised by Yaron Matras and Rebecca Tipton).

  • Lisa Donlan (2021) - 'You Either Die a Cinnamon Roll or Live Long Enough to Become a Problematic Fave: The Carnivalesque Discursive Practices of Fandom Blogs on Tumblr' (supervised by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Andrea Nini).

  • Donald Morrison (2020) - 'The Phonology of Scottish Gaelic' (supervised by Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, Claire Nance and Wendell Kimper).

  • Stefano Coretta (2020) - 'Vowel Duration and Consonant Voicing: An Articulatory Study' (supervised by Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero and Patrycja Strycharczuk).

  • Heidi Reid (2020) - 'The TMA System of Bastimentos Creole English' (supervised by Eva Schultze-Berndt and Delia Bentley)

  • Pablo Fuentes Opazo (2019) - 'The Semantics of Modality and Tense in Predictive Illocutions: A Cross-Linguistic Study in English and Mapudungun' (supervised by Martina Faller and Graham Stevens).

  • Simone De Cia (2019) - 'At the Edge of Ladin, Venetan and Friulian: A Morpho-Syntactic Study of Two Dialect Areas in the South-Eastern Part of the Province of Belluno (Sovramontino and Lamonat) and in North-Western Part of the Province of Udine (Fornese di Sopra)' (supervised by Delia Bentley and Julio Villa-Garcia). 

  • Haifa Alroqi (2019) - 'A Case-Control Study of Media Viewing and Language Delay in Saudi Young Children' (supervised by Thea Cameron-Faulkner, Ludovica Serratrice and Eman Abdoh (King Abdulaziz University)).

  • Victoria Thomas (2019) - 'Auxiliary Ellipsis in Early Modern German: Synchrony and Diachrony' (supervised by Kersti Börjars and George Walkden).

  • Deepthi Gopal (2019) - 'The Morphology-Phonology Interaction in Kazakh and Kyrgyz Reduplication Processes' (supervised by Yuni Kim and Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero).

  • George Bailey (2019) - 'Dialect Levelling in Northern Greater Manchester: Working with Forced Alignment Software' (supervised by Maciej Baranowski and Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero).

  • Mary Begley (2019) - 'The lexical field of INSANITY in Middle English: semantic change and conceptual metaphor' (supervised by David Denison and David Matthews).

  • Eman Alkroud (2018) - 'Renarrating the Berbers in Three Tamazight Translations of the Holy Quran: Paratextual and Framing Strategies'.

  • Hannah Booth (2018) - 'Expletive Subjects in Icelandic: A Diachronic Study' (supervised by Kersti Börjars and Tine Breban).

  • Kathleen Easlick (2018) - 'Language Policies in a Changing Europe: Regional and Immigrant Languages in Multi-Sited Comparisons' (supervised by Yaron Matras and Yuni Kim).

  • Khawla Ghadgoud (2018) - 'Negation Patterns in Libyan Arabic and Modern Arabic Varieties' (supervised by Kersti Börjars and John Payne).

  • Henri  Kauhanen (2018) - 'Neutrality, Biases and Social Network Effects in Language Change' (supervised by Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, Tobias Galla and George Walkden).