Dr Claire Childs

My research is in the field of language variation and change, with a focus on grammatical and discourse-pragmatic variation in dialects of English. I often take a socio-syntactic approach, integrating insights from the field of syntax with quantitative variationist sociolinguistic analysis to help understand the structures underlying linguistic variation. I regularly use comparative methods to establish how these structures - and linguistic/social patterns in their use - vary across space.