The morpho-phonology of affect; Mapudungun kinship terms then and now
Honours & MSc Course
History of Scots
I will be teaching a couple of weeks on the History of Scots cours in Semmester 2 of 2025-26 (along with Course Organiser, Lisa Gotthard)
Prerequisites:
LEL2C
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Honours & MSc Course
Historical Phonology
I am one of the two course organisers for Historical Phonology in 2025-26 (along with Patrick Honeybone)
Prerequisites:
LEL2D, LEL2C
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Heritage texts, typology and human history in the Southern Cone
I am the Principal Investigator on a 4-year Leverhulme research grant using corpus methods to look into the typology and historical linguistics of the Southern Cone.
Comparative-Historical Corpus of the Southern Cone
My current Leverhulme Research Grant (Sept. 2025–Aug. 2029) collaborates with researchers in Edinburgh, Chile and Argentina, and is tasked with creating the Comparative-Historical …
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English Historical Linguistics: Historical English in contact
Papers from the first the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-XX)
Corpus of Historical Mapudungun
The Corpus of Historical Mapudungun is a digital, linguistically-tagged collection of many of the earliest writings in the Mapudungun language, spanning materials from 1606 to …
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Native American Philology
In 2021, I launched the first version of the Corpus of Historical Mapudungun (CHM), which uses text-based approaches to reconstruct the 400-year history of this language.
Sound and spelling variation in Older Scots
I am a team-member in the AHRC-funded From Inglis to Scots (FITS) project project, mapping sounds to spellings in the earliest records for Scots.