University of Glasgow
Graduate Studies 1995
Departmental Research Interests
English Language
There are eight permanent staff in the department and some twenty
postgraduates and research associates. Research links are maintained
with many scholars in Europe and North America. Individual research
focuses on topics in both Medieval and Modern English. These include
medieval manuscripts, codicology and editing, charter studies,
literacy, dialectology, history of English, historical stylistics,
history of phonetics and linguistics, writing systems, semantics and
lexicography, syntactic theories, linguistic theories, narrative
structure, mental processing, applied linguistics (TESOL), Scots,
genre analysis, stylistics.
Team research includes participation in the Faculty Centre for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies; the Historical Thesaurus of
English project (development of lexis, semantic change, lexis and
culture); and the Institute for Historical Dialectology (atlases of
Early Middle English and Older Scots; Middle English Grammar).
The department has a firm commitment to the use of computers in
research.
- Areas in which supervision is available:
- * Old and Middle English
- * Germanic
- * History of English
- * Medieval dialectology
- * Interdisciplinary medieval studies
- * History of linguistics
- * Phonetics and phonology
- * Grammar and syntax
- * Text and discourse
- * Semantics and lexicography
- * Scots
- * Linguistic theories
- * Applied linguistics (TESOL)
Contact:
Professor Graham D Caie, Department of English Language
