Historical and comparative grammar of Greek, Latin, and other ancient Indo-European languages; variationist linguistics of Ancient Greek (sociolects, dialects, literary registers); linguistic aspects of the cultural history of classical antiquity
Rajend Mesthrie FBA has published extensively on the socio-historical linguistics of Indian languages, African languages and English and Afrikaans in South Africa. At the same time his work on English as a global language and the sociolinguistics of Language Contact and Variation is widely recognised internationally.
Anna Korhonen's research interests are computational linguistics, natural language processing and artificial intelligence; language technologies serving diverse languages, cultures and communities; human-centred AI bridging technology and society; and AI for equitable and sustainable global development.
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