Notes on Contributors

Bas Aarts is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Survey of English Usage at University College London. His publications include Syntactic Gradience (2007, Oxford University Press), Oxford Modern English Grammar (2011, Oxford University Press), The English Verb Phrase (2013, edited with J. Close, G. Leech, and S. Wallis, Cambridge University Press), Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar, second edition (2014, edited with S. Chalker and E. Weiner, Oxford University Press), How to Teach Grammar (2019, with I. Cushing and R. Hudson, Oxford University Press), Oxford Handbook of English Grammar (2020, edited with J. Bowie and G. Popova, Oxford University Press), as well as book chapters and articles in journals. He is a founding editor of the journal English Language and Linguistics (Cambridge University Press).

Samuel K. Ahmed is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Cambridge. His interests include harmony systems, the morphologization of sound change, and, generally, the distinction between phonological synchrony and diachrony. His dissertation is about the theoretical issues arising from the implementation of Yurok rhotic vowel harmony.

Samuel Andersson is currently a PhD student at Yale University, after completing a BA (Hons.) in Linguistics at the University of Cambridge in 2017. His research interests include phonological theory generally, and more specifically rule-based phonology, prosodic representations, external evidence, and the relationship between diachrony and typology. Samuel's current work focuses on non-hierarchical approaches to prosody, and the Northwest Caucasian language Abkhaz.

Laurie Bauer, FRSNZ, is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of over 20 books on linguistics topics, including Compounds and Compounding (2017, Cambridge University Press) and Rethinking Morphology (2019, Edinburgh University Press). He is one of the authors of The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology (2013, Oxford University Press), which won him LSA's Leonard Bloomfield Prize. In 2017, he was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand's Humanities Medal.

Alexander Bergs joined the Institute of English and American Studies at Osnabrück University in 2006 when he became Full Professor and Chair of English Language and Linguistics. His research interests include language variation and change, constructional approaches to language, and cognitive poetics. His works include more than 50 scholarly papers and a dozen books, including a textbook on Understanding Language Change (2016, with Kate Burridge, Routledge) and the multi-volume English Historical Linguistics: An International Handbook (2017, with Laurel Brinton, De Gruyter Mouton).

Robert I. Binnick is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Time and the Verb: A Guide to Tense and Aspect (1991, Oxford University Press), and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect (2012, Oxford University Press).

Hans C. Boas is the Raymond Dickson, Alton C. Allen, and Dillon Anderson Centennial Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin; Chair of the Department of Germanic Studies; and Director of the Linguistics Research Center. He also directs the Texas German Dialect Project.

Brook Bolander is Lecturer in Linguistics at the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. Her major research interests include the sociolinguistics of globalization, English as a transnational language, and digital discourse. Her publications on digital discourse encompass a focus on language, power, and disagreements in blogs; on identity and relational work on Facebook (with Miriam A. Locher); and on research methods for studying digital discourse (with Miriam A. Locher).

Kersti Börjars is Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford. Until 2019, she was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester. She has published within the area of morphosyntactic description and theory and diachronic linguistics, frequently with an emphasis on Germanic languages, but also involving cross-linguistic comparison.

Andreea S. Calude obtained her doctorate in 2008 from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and was supervised by Jim Miller and Frank Lichtenberk on a corpus linguistics analysis of cleft constructions in spoken New Zealand English. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her main areas of interest are cognitive, functional grammar, and language contact and language evolution, with a particular interest in the variety of English spoken in New Zealand. The direction of her work has been heavily influenced by Jim Miller's empirical approach to the study of language and by Mark Pagel's quantitative methods for modelling language evolution. She is also the author of the edited popular linguistics book Questions about Language: What Everyone Should Know About Language in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2020) together with Laurie Bauer.

Peter Collins is Honorary Professor of Linguistics in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research focuses on the grammar of English, Australian English, World Englishes, and Corpus Linguistics.

Ilse Depraetere is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Lille. She is a member of the research group Savoirs, Textes, Langage. She has published widely on tense, aspect, and modality, with a special focus on the semantics/pragmatics interface.

Stefan Dollinger is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, specializing in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and the lexicography of English. His most recent monographs include The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology (2015, Benjamins), Creating Canadian English (2019, Cambridge University Press), and The Pluricentricity Debate (2019, Routledge). He was editor-in-chief of the second edition of A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (2017, University of British Columbia).

Paul Foulkes is Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York. His teaching and research interests include forensic phonetics, laboratory phonology, phonological development, sociophonetics, and sociolinguistics. He has also worked on over 200 forensic cases from the UK, Ghana, Sweden, and New Zealand.

Liliane Haegeman is Professor Emerita of English Linguistics at Ghent University in Belgium, and Professeur honoraire at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. She is a member of the Diachronic and Diatopic Linguistics research group. From 1984 to 1999, she was Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), and between 2000 and 2009 she was Full Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Lille III. She moved to Ghent University in 2009 to direct the Odysseus project Comparative Syntax: Layers of Structure and the Cartography. Haegeman has worked extensively on the syntax of English and of Flemish, and has written a number of textbooks on generative syntax. Her latest monograph is Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and the Composition of the Left Periphery (2012, Oxford University Press).

Michael Hammond is full professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona. He has published extensively on stress, syllabification, prosodic morphology, poetic meter, and Optimality Theory. His work has focused on the phonology of English, and, over the last 10 years, he has dealt with: (a) online judgments of grammaticality as a function of phonotactic probability, and the computational modeling of those judgments; and (b) the relationship between lexical and syntactic frequency and phonological well-formedness. Over the last few years, Hammond has been working on Celtic experimental and statistical phonology, specifically Scottish Gaelic and Welsh.

Evan Hazenberg is a Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Sussex. He is a sociophonetician with an interest in gendered identities, queer linguistics, and variationist sociolinguistics. He has worked with queer and trans communities in Canada and New Zealand.

Martin Hilpert is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Neuchâtel. He holds a PhD from Rice University and did postdoctoral research at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley and at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. He is interested in cognitive linguistics, language change, construction grammar, and corpus linguistics. He is co-editor of the journal Functions of Language and associate editor of the journal Cognitive Linguistics.

Lars Hinrichs is Associate Professor of English language and linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his PhD in 2006 from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and his doctoral work is a discourse analysis of Creole-English code-switching in Jamaican e-mails. He also studies phonetic variation in the speech of diasporic communities, variation in standard English corpora, and variation and change in Texas English.

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