University of Edinburgh

Multiple Sources & Language Change: a Cross-Linguistic Investigation of the development of the way-construction in English, German & Dutch

Academic History:

2015 - PhD Linguistics & English Language, University of Edinburgh

2014 - 2015 MSc English Language, University of Edinburgh

2010 - 2014 BA (Hons) Modern Language (German & Russian), Durham University

Supervisors:

Dr Graeme Trousdale

Dr Nik Gisborne

Research Interests:

• Multiple source constructions
• Syntactic change as viewed through a Construction Grammar perspective
• Usage-based models of language
• Bybeean exemplar models of language
• Collostructional Analysis

Previous Research Projects:

• Masters dissertation on the evolution of the way-construction & fake reflexive resultative construction from 1820 to the present day

Scholarships:

• AHRC PhD Studentship 2015 - 2018

Publications:

• Whatever happened to whatever? The atypical development of an interjection in the recent history of English (Pending, 2017)

Contact Details:

Address: University of Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building, 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AD

Email: s1460918@sms.ed.ac.uk 

First published: 11 September 2015