Department of Linguistics
Research in the Department of Linguistics
The Department of Linguistics is home to cutting-edge research across a wide range of linguistics, which is focussed around four principal research clusters, in historical linguistics (embracing variation and change), phonetics and phonology, semantics and pragmatics, and syntax. Membership of the clusters includes not only staff and research students within the Department, but also researchers from the wider Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages working in particular on Romance, Germanic, Slavonic and Greek. There are particularly strong links with the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics which is host to the research cluster in language acquisition and language processing. Activities organised by the clusters include student-run workshops and regular reading groups. Postgraduates also periodically organise conferences to showcase the work of outstanding graduates from the UK and abroad: the Sixth Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research was held 7-8 December 2010. The Department has been particularly successful in attracting external research funding.
- Research clusters
- Research projects
- Staff and their research interests
- PhD students and their research interests
