University of Victoria
Alexandra D’Arcy is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Sociolinguistics Research Lab (SLRL) at the University of Victoria (Canada). She specializes in the study of language variation and change, combining quantitative modelling with her interest in theoretical linguistics. She has published widely on lexical, phonological, syntactic, morphosyntactic, and discourse-pragmatic variation and change, both from a synchronic and from a diachronic point of view. Her current project examines the role of children in advancing language change.
University of the Basque Country
María del Pilar García Mayo is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country (Spain) and Director of the research group Language and Speech (www.laslab.org). One of the strands in her research is grounded in generative linguistic theory and focuses on second and third language acquisition, specifically on various aspects of English grammatical structure in bilingual Basque-Spanish speakers. A second line of research delves into cognitive-interactionist theory, examining the impact of conversational interactions on language development in low-input, foreign language settings.
Heidelberg University
University of Edinburgh
Graeme Trousdale is Professor of Linguistics and English Language at the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences of the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). His main research interests involve constructionalization and constructional change, English historical linguistics, cognitive linguistics, including studies on regularity and creativity in both language and music. His latest research focuses on word-formation change in Word Grammar and the diachronic development of morphological constructions.
University of Freiburg
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