Costas Gabrielatos

Costas's general area of interest is the use and development of corpus-based approaches to issues in descriptive, theoretical and pedagogical lexicogrammar, critical discourse studies, and sociolinguistics. More specifically, he is interested in modality and conditionals, and in exploring the compatibility between construction grammar and lexical grammar

Willem Hollmann

Willem's interests are in cognitive-typological linguistic theory (especially construction grammar and the usage-based model), language change in English and other languages, and dialect grammar (especially Lancashire). He doesn't think of these areas as separate, but instead as connected and overlapping in many ways. In relation to the remit of LVLT, he is especially interested in looking at dialect data through cognitive-typological theoretical goggles, and in refining this theory in light of dialectal data and relevant notions from sociolinguistic theory. For a concrete idea of this, see the (2007) article he wrote with Anna Siewierska on variation in first person possessives in Lancashire dialect. 

Francis Katamba

Francis's research interests are in the areas of English phonology and morphology, morphological theory, phonological theory, and African linguistics.

Maria Papastathi

Maria's PhD topic of research was the morphosyntax and semantics of middle constructions in English and Greek from the perspective of theories of lexical semantics and the Minimalist Program. This work attempted to provide a theoretically and empirically motivated account of important connections between voice, transitivity phenomena and the semantic category of modality. Recently she has developed a keen interest in linguistic typology and corpus-based research and has been involved in a project on impersonalisation strategies across European languages. She is also interested in theories of argument structure, issues in the comparative morphosyntax of Greek, Germanic, Romance and Slavonic, issues in the phonology-syntax interface, as well as in L1 and L2 acquisition and development.   

Kasia Alexander

Kasia's research focuses on productive and perceptual performance of Greek Cypriots and in particular performance linked to voicing patterns of plosives. She has been concentrating on differences in perception and production of Greek Cypriot and Standard Modern Greek plosives by Greek Cypriots, and category formation in acquisition of a second dialect. Also, her research interests include perception of voicing in English plosives by Greek Cypriot learners of English, and its influence on spelling in English by Greek Cypriots.

Clement Appah

Clement is working on Akan nominal morphosyntax. The working title of his dissertation is 'A Grammar of Derived nominals in Akan'. His interests include: Linguistic Theory, Phonetics/Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and the grammar of Akan. Within these broad areas, he has worked on various issues in Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs) within the framework of Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), Nominal Derivation in Akan, Syntactic behaviour of Derived Nominals, Compounding, Reduplication and its functions, etc. He has also worked minimally on Swahili. Other areas of interests he hopes to pursue in the future are the lexical coding of gender stratification in African languages, and the extent to which the degree of nativization of a loanword can be signalled by the choice of ‘local’ morphological material.

Sharifah Jaafar

Sharifah is currently working in the framework of Optimality theory to analyse some issues in Malay prefixation, reduplication and dialect variation under the supervision of Professor Francis Katamba.

Helen West

Helen's interests are primarily sociolinguistic, identifying language variation and change in English dialects. In particular, she is interested in urban areas which lie in between major linguistic zones; and in investigating the conscious and subconscious linguistic affiliation people in these areas adopt.

Kate Whisker

kate is interested in phonological and morpho-syntactic variation in Yorkshire English. She is currently working on variation in traditional features of Huddersfield English, West Yorkshire and analysing change over a century of the variety for my PhD.