Thomas Rainsford

***UPDATE 30/05/25. Some pages on this site are not able to be viewed. I have no idea why this is, but I'm working on it.***

I am a lecturer (Akademischer Rat) at the Institut für Linguistik/Romanistik at the University of Stuttgart.  My field of research is historical Romance linguistics with a focus on the history of  French, Occitan, and Italian. I'm currently one of eight PIs in the DFG-funded Research Unit Structuring the Input in Language Processing, Acquisition and Change (SILPAC)  (FOR 5157), and my project examines links between lexical change and morpho-syntactic change in the expression of motion events in French and Italian. I work frequently with historical corpora, and have developed the Old Gallo-Romance Corpus (OGR), which builds on my research into prosodic and phonological change in French and Occitan by incorporating layers of phonological and metrical annotation. I studied for my PhD at the University of Cambridge and have subsequently worked at the ENS de Lyon (France) and as a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford.

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