Research students
I invite applications from students wishing to conduct MPhil or PhD research in my areas of specialisation.
Current PhD students:
Xiaoxuan Chen (on metaphor and the literal/nonliteral distinction)
Mireia Cabanes Calabuig (on expressives and their contribution to semantic content)
Nina Haket (on conceptual engineering and levels of analysis of meaning)
Anastasiia Petrenko (on the concept of extended present in Russian)
Awarded PhDs:
2024. Sadiyah Shahidullah. 'Rethinking Gricean and post-Gricean categories of meaning: Evidence from Sībawayhian and post-Sībawayhian pragmatics in the Arabic tradition'
2017. Eleni Savva, 'Subsentential speech from a contextualist perspective'
2017. Luca Sbordone, 'The contextual adjective: On indexicality, gradability, and vagueness in the adjectival domain'
2017. Michael Keane, 'Time and modality in the human mind, and the particular commonality between them: Linguistic and psychological investigations'
2017. Roberto Sileo, 'The semantics and pragmatics of racial and ethnic slurring language: Towards a comprehensive radical contextualist account'. Currently Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge
2015. Chi-Hé Elder, 'On the forms of conditionals and the functions of if'. Currently Lecturer in Linguistics, University of East Anglia
2013. Minyao Huang, 'Vagueness in language use: Problems and pseudo-problems'. Currently Research Fellow, Sun Yat-sen University
2012. Eleni Kapogianni, 'Irony and the literal versus nonliteral distinction: A typological approach with focus on ironic implicature and strength'. Currently Lecturer, University of Kent
2010. Anna Schneider, 'Understanding the primary meaning: A study with reference to requests in Russian and British English'
2009. Alyson Pitts, 'Metamessages of denial: The pragmatics of English negation'. Currently GB Senior Analytical Linguist, Google
2006. Jiranthara Srioutai, 'Conceptualisation of time in Thai with special reference to d1ay1II, kh3oe:y, k1aml3ang, y3u:I and c1a'. Currently Associate Professor, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
2001. Marina Terkourafi, 'Politeness in Cypriot Greek: A frame-based approach'. Currently Professor and Chair of Sociolinguistics, University of Leiden
2001. Hye-Kyung Lee, 'The semantics and pragmatics of connectives with reference to English and Korean'. Currently Associate Professor, Ajou University, South Korea
Updated 29 June 2024