Past PhD students

Read examples of research subjects undertaken by graduates in Linguistics and English Language.

  • Michael Cameron (2026) - 'Each To Their Own Language: An exploration of individual differences in grammar' (supervised by Andrea Nini and Colin Bannard).
  • Núria Barrios Jurado (2026) - 'The syntax-discourse interface: A comparative study of Catalan and Spanish' (supervised by Delia Bentley and Julio Villa-Garcia).
  • Siena Weingartz (2026) - 'The Interaction between Gradability and Modality: The View from Ndebele and Afrikaans' (supervised by Vera Hohaus and Andrew Koontz-Garboden).
  • Eve Suharwardy (2026) - 'A Study of Temporal Comparison in English and Malay' (supervised by Vera Hohaus and Andrew Koontz-Garboden).
  • Vanessa Fung (2026) - 'Grammatical Strategies in Warning Expressions in Mandarin-Chinese' (supervised by Eva Schultze-Berndt and Martina Faller).
  • Shatha Alahmadi (2025) - 'A comparative investigation of the semantics-phonology interface: Focus-sensitive particles in Hijazi Arabic and English' (supervised by Martina Faller and Vera Hohaus).
  • Elizabeth Tobyn (2025) - 'The Acquisition of Unaccusativity on Evidence from Early and Late Dialect-Italian Bilinguals' (supervised by Delia Bentley and Andrea Nini).
  • Paul Stott (2025) - 'Investigating the processing of quantified noun phrases' (supervised by Vera Hohaus and Andrew Stewart).
  • Roxanne Taylor (2023) - 'Argument realisation and argument structure in the Old English eventive noun phrase' (supervised by Kersti Börjars and Tine Breban).
  • Chit Fung Lam (2023) - 'Control and Complementation in Parallel Constraint-based Architecture: An Empirically Oriented Investigation of Mandarin Chinese' (supervised by Kersti Börjars and Eva Schultze-Berndt).
  • Maria Chioti (2023) 'Attitudes to English-English Accents: An Examination of Their Formation' (supervised by Wendell Kimper, Marije Van Hattum and Alex Baratta).
  • Alina McLellan (2023) 'Relative and cleft constructions in Kréol Rényoné'  (supervised by Delia Bentley and Eva Schultze-Berndt).
  • Roisin Cosnahan (2022) - 'A Comparative Investigation of the Diachronic Pragmatics of Negation in the Romance Languages' (supervised by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Delia Bentley).
  • Stephen Nichols (2022) - 'The Phonology and Typology of Height Harmony in the Bantu Languages' (supervised by Wendell Kimper and Yuni Kim).
  • Kaiyue Xing (2022) - 'The Sociophonetics and Phonology of Mandarin Rhoticity' (supervised by Maciej Baranowski and Patrycja Strycharczuk).
  • Anh Khoi Nguyen (2022) - 'Heritage Language Maintenance in an "Integrated" Minority' (supervised by Yaron Matras and Rebecca Tipton).
  • Colin Rutland (2022) - 'Vagueness in Nouns and Adjectives: Towards a Unifying Theory' (supervised by Andrew Koontz-Garboden and Martina Faller).
  • Juliette Angot (2022) - 'A Cross-Cultural Study of French and Korean Epistemic Markers' (supervised by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Martina Faller).
  • Aseel Almuhaimeed (2022) - 'Phonological Processes in the Najdi Arabic Dialect: An Optimality Theory Approach' (supervised by Wendell Kimper and Yuni Kim).
  • Massimiliano Canzi (2021) - 'Lexical Knowledge and its Influence on Speech Perception' (supervised by Wendell Kimper and Patrycja Strycharczuk).
  • Lorenzo Moretti (2021) - 'Do Between Modal Auxiliaries in Early Modern English: A Usage-Based Study' (supervised by Tine Breban and Kersti Börjars).
  • Leonie Gaiser (2021) - 'Arabic in a Global Diaspora - Maintenance of and Provisions for Arabic in Manchester, UK' (supervised by Yaron Matras and Rebecca Tipton).
  • Lisa Donlan (2021) - 'You Either Die a Cinnamon Roll or Live Long Enough to Become a Problematic Fave: The Carnivalesque Discursive Practices of Fandom Blogs on Tumblr' (supervised by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Andrea Nini).