First and second language acquisition, multilingualism, language impairment, language attrition and language development in exceptional circumstances; the interface between language and cognition and the role of the language of education in linguistic and cognitive development
Lutz Marten specialises in descriptive, comparative and theoretical linguistics; African languages; Bantu languages; Swahili; how language is linked to culture, society, history, identity, nature and other domains of life; African and global area studies
Empirical foundations of syntax; corpus and experimental studies of variation in English grammar; cognitive architectures of grammar; the dynamics of probabilistic grammar; linguistic typology; Bantu morphosyntax; lexical-functional grammar
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