Linguistics
Visiting Canterbury Fellows names appear in bold. Visiting Oxford Fellows names appear in bold+italics. Visiting Cambridge Fellows names appear in BOLD+CAPS. Please click on the name of the visitor to make e-mail contact.
| NAME | INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST |
| 2022 | |
| 2021 | No visitors |
| 2020 | |
| Professor Stefan Frisch | Appalachian State University, USA Phonetics and Phonology |
| 2019 | |
| Emeritus Professor Sarah Hawkins | University of Cambridge, UK Phonetics |
| 2018 | |
| Professor Daniel Schreier | Universitat Zurich, Switzerland Language variation and change; sociolinguistics; dialectology; English historical linguistics |
| 2016 | |
| Professor Sigrid Beck | Universitat Tubingen, Germany Semantics |
| Professor Katie Drager | University of Hawaii at Manoa Sociophonetics |
| 2015 | |
| Professor Peter Culicover | Ohio State University, USA Syntactic theory; English syntax; language learnability; computational models of language acquisition and language change; grammar & complexity |
| Dr Graeme Trousdale | University of Edinburgh, UK The history of English; linguistic theory; sociolinguistics |
| 2014 | |
| Professor Philip Carr | Université Paul-Valéry, France Linguistics, esp. phonology: phonetics, sociophonetics & phonology of English & French, phonology and the mind, philosophy of linguistics |
| 2013 | |
| Professor Anne Cutler | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands Psycholinguistics |
| Professor Richard Kayne | New York University, USA Comparative syntax |
| 2012 | |
| Associate Professor Lisa Matthewson | University of British Columbia, Canada Cross-linguistic variation in semantics & pragmatics; syntax/semantics interface; semantic fieldwork methodology; indigenous language documentation |
| 2011 | |
| Dr Ghada Khattab | University of Newcastle, UK Monolingual and bilingual phonological acquisition; phonetics/phonology and sociolinguistics; foreign accent |
| 2010 | |
| Professor Diane Massam | University of Toronto, Canada Syntactic theory, especially case and agreement systems; formal structure of Niuean |
| Professor Janet Pierrehumbert | Northwestern University, USA Laboratory phonology |
| 2008 | |
| Dr Paul Foulkes | University of York, UK Phonetics; phonology; child language acquisition; sociolinguistics and forensic phonetics |
| Associate Professor Benjamin Munson | University of Minnesota, USA Laboratory phonology; phonological development; sexual orientation & speech; speech perception; speech science; lexical development; phonetics |
| 2007 | |
| Professor Gregory Guy | New York University, USA Sociolinguistics; phonology; multilingualism |
| 2006 | |
| Professor Gerry Docherty | University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK Phonetics; sociolinguistics |
| Professor Barbara Partee | University of Massachusetts, USA Formal semantics; semantics-syntax connections; pragmatics; logic; philosophy of language; cognitive science; mathematical modelling in linguistics |
| 2005 | |
| Professor Joan Bresnan | Stanford University, USA Syntax |
| Professor Paul Kiparsky | Stanford University, USA Phonology; historical linguistics; morphology |
| Professor Alison Wray | Cardiff University, UK Phrasal lexicon; methodology |
| 2004 | |
| Dr R Harald Baayen | University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Morphology, especially morphological processing, frequency effectS and productivity |
| Dr Mary Dalrymple | King's College London, UK Syntax; semantics; computational linguistics |
| Professor Beth C Levin | Stanford University, USA Syntax-semantics interface; lexical semantics; non-transformational syntactic theories |
| 2003 | |
| Professor Sandra Chung | University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Syntax, Austronesian linguistic studies, linguistic field methods |
| Professor Janet Pierrehumbert | Northwestern University, USA Phonology; phonetics; morphology |
| 2002 | |
| Professor Geert E Booij | Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands General phonological and morphological theory; phonology & morphology of Dutch |
| Professor John R Rickford | Stanford University, USA Sociolinguistics; pidgin and Creole languages; African-American vernacular english; 'standard' vs 'non-standard' language varieties |
| 2001 | |
| Professor Jack K Chambers | University of Toronto, Canada Sociolinguistics, dialectology, variationist linguistics |
| Professor Jennifer Cheshire | University of London, UK Sociolinguistics; code-switching, syntax of dialects; linguistics in education |
| 2000 | |
| Professor Dennis R Preston | Michigan State University Sociolinguistics and dialectology; language attitudes; ethnography of speaking |
| Professor Nigel B Vincent | University of Manchester Historical linguistics; typology; syntactic theory; morphology |
| 1999 | |
| Prof Jennifer E Coates | Roehampton Institute, London English language and literature, especially the speech of women |
| Prof Alice C Harris | Vanderbilt University Historical processes underlying syntactic change. |
| 1998 | |
| Prof Edward L Keenan | University of California at Los Angeles Historical linguistics; typology |
| Prof Walt Wolfram | North Carolina State University Sociolinguistics |