Phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, metrics, and the Sanskrit grammatical tradition. The relation between word structure and sentence structure, and the principles governing language change.
Elected 2010
The history of the English language, particularly of the Early Modern English period; historical sociolinguistics; language variation and change; corpus linguistics; design and compilation of digital text corpora
Language learning and bilingualism over the lifespan; interfaces between language and cognition; gradience in natural language; public engagement with research
Historical linguistics; languages of the Caucasus; morphology
