The University of Sheffield
Centre for Linguistic Research

Current Members

Name Home Department Research Area Object Languages
Susan Fitzmaurice (Director) School of English Historical sociolinguistics, standardisation, English in Zimbabwe, historical pragmatics, corpus linguistics historical English varieties, world Englishes
Roel Vismans Department of Germanic Studies Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Functional Grammar Dutch, English, German
Joan Beal School of English Language use and variation; Dialect and Identity (in the North of England) English (regional/earlier varieties)
Neil Bermel Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies Language Variation and Use, Language Policy Czech, Russian
Dagmar Divjak Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies Cognitive Linguistics, Linguistic Categorization, verb syntax and semantics Russian, Polish,Serbian
Gibson Ferguson School of English Language Policy and Planning, English as a lingua franca, Applied Linguistics English
Kook-Hee Gil School of English Second Language Acquisition, Syntax-Semantics English, Korean, Japanese
Valerie Hobbs School of English Language Teaching (Teacher cognition, short-term teacher education), Second Language writing English
Meng Ji School of East Asian Studies Corpus Linguistics, Translation Studies, Chinese Phraseology and Lexicography Chinese, English, Spanish
Andrew Linn School of English History of Linguistics, Language Policy and Planning English, Norwegian
Anna Linthe Department of Germanic Studies Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Language use German
Ayumi Matsuo School of English Child Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Syntax-Semantics, Applied Linguistics English, Dutch, Japanese
Emma Moore School of English Sociolinguistics, (Syntactic and discoursal aspects of) Language Variation English
Trang Phan School of English Vietnamese syntax and semantics, tense and aspect Vietnamese
Michael Siegal Department of Psychology Language and Cognition in children English, Italian, Slovenian
Richard Steadman-Jones School of English Colonial Language Study, History of Linguistics English
Nicolas Tranter School of East Asian Studies Loanword Theory, Script Choice, Script Development Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese
Rosemary Varley Department of Human Communication Sciences Language and Cognition in Aphasia English (clinical populations)
Gareth Walker School of English Sociophonetics, Conversation Analysis English
Teresa Wigglesworth-Barker Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies Language Policy and Planning Russian
Regina Weinert Department of Germanic Studies Syntax, discourse, pragmatics,spoken language, language acquisition German, English
Lucy Xia Zhao School of East Asian Studies Generative Syntax, Language Acquisition Chinese