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Dr Theresa Biberauer
Senior Research Associate
Department of Linguistics
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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
CAMBRIDGE CB3 9DA |
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mtb23@cam.ac.uk |
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(+44) (0)1223 763062 |
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(+44) (0)1223 335053 |
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Theresa Biberauer specialises in theoretical, comparative and historical syntax, with interface, typological and contact issues also increasingly becoming a focus of interest. To date, much of her research has centred on the clause structure of the Germanic languages, with the peculiar patterns of variation and change exhibited by Afrikaans forming the heart of her doctoral work, and various aspects of the diachrony of English and other Germanic languages having been a major research focus since the completion of that Ph.D. in 2003. She was previously (2002-2007) the Research Associate on an AHRC-funded project Null subjects and the structure of parametric theory, also involving Ian Roberts, David Willis and Anders Holmberg (University of Newcastle). Currently, she is the Senior Research Associate on a further AHRC-funded project (October 2007-March 2011) investigating Structure and Linearization in Disharmonic Word Orders. The project once again involves both a Cambridge- and a Newcastle-based research team: Ian Roberts and Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge), and Anders Holmberg and Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle). Theresa also holds an honorary Senior Lectureship at her South African alma mater, Stellenbosch University.
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