The Mechanisms of Language Change research cluster is a group of staff and graduate students interested in all areas of language variation and change. It brings together not only staff within the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, but also from the wider Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic.
Much of the work by members of the cluster is characterised by either the creation and exploitation of corpora or by detailed philological work. The cluster's research activities are focused around three main themes which highlight some of the research strengths of its members:
Click a theme to find out more.
- Quick links
- Department of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics
- Rethinking Comparative Syntax
- Syntactic Atlas of Welsh Dialects
- Observations and Remarks on the French language
- The development of negation in the languages of Europe
- A Historical Corpus of the Welsh Language
- Upcoming talks
- Other news & events
Mechanisms of Language Change Research Cluster Workshop, 1st May- Linguistics Fest: three linguistics workshops at Queens' College, 28th March-1st April
- 'Oldest English words' identified
- 17th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (2012, Zürich)
- Did our ancestors speak 'like Yoda'?