Linguistics Department Staff
Head of Department
Undergraduate Tutor (1st years) and Admissions Tutor
Undergraduate Tutor (years 2, 3 and 4)
MA in Applied Linguistics and Language Pedagogy Tutor and Admissions
MA in Linguistics/Language Documentation and Description Tutor and Admissions
MA in Theory and Practice of Translation Tutor and Admissions
MPhil/PhD Tutor and Admissions
Academic Staff
Peter Austin
Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics
Director, Endangered Languages Academic Programme
Typology, morpho-syntax, language documentation and description, historical linguistics, Lexical-Functional grammar, computer-aided linguistic analysis, Austronesian languages, Australian Aboriginal languages
- Tel: 020 7898 4586
- Email: pa2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 363
Gerardo Barbera
Researcher in Language Documentation
Gerardo Barbera is a Researcher in Language Documentation Dialectology, historical linguistics, lexicography, cognitive linguistics (image schemas and lexical semantics), language documentation and description, Iranian (especially the dialects of the Persian Gulf region), Tocharian
- Tel: 020 7898 4540
- Email: gb20@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4403
Oliver Bond
Researcher in Language Documentation
Typology, morpho-syntax, language documentation and description, historical linguistics, negation systems, agreement systems, cognate objects, Niger-Congo languages, Oceanic languages, Eleme (Rivers State, Nigeria)
- Tel: 020 7898 4582
- Email: ob1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4403
Wynn Chao
Lecturer in Linguistics
Formal and comparative syntax; semantics; the syntax-semantics interface; language universals and typology; psycholinguistics; Chinese; Romance languages
- Tel: 020 7898 4648
- Email: wc@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 374
Monik Charette
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Phonology, morpho-phonology, stress systems, vowel harmony, syllabic structure, word-structure, Altaic languages, Turkish, French
- Tel: 020 7898 4647
- Email: mc@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 369
Maria Flouraki
Teaching Fellow
Syntax, syntax-semantics interface, formal semantics, lexical semantics, constraint-based frameworks (LFG and HPSG), lexical aspect, negation, argument structure, Romance languages, Greek, South-Asian languages
- Tel: 020 7898 4317
- Email: mf44@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 432
Noriko Iwasaki
Lecturer in Language Pedagogy
Second language acquisition (grammatical development, impact of study abroad), psycholinguistics (language production, cognition and language), language testing, Japanese
- Tel: 020 7898 4394
- Email: ni3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 401
Shin-Sook Kim
Newton International Fellow
Syntax-semantics interface, Korean linguistics, comparative syntax
- Tel: 020 7898 4583
- Email: sk117@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4408
Defeng Li
Reader in Translation Studies
Cognitive approach to translation process, corpus-based translation studies, translation curriculum and material development, specialized translation (commercial, financial and journalistic), second language acquisition and teaching, experimental translation studies, qualitative research methodology
- Tel: 020 7898 4298
- Email: dl21@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 406
Friederike Lüpke
Lecturer in Language Documentation and Description
Language documentation and description, contact linguistics, anthropological linguistics, syntax-semantics interface, argument structure, Ajami writing in Africa, Niger-Congo languages, Mande languages, Atlantic languages, Jalonke (Fuuta Jalon, Guinea), Bainouk (Casamance, Senegal)
- Tel: 020 7898 4581
- Email: fl2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 367
Stuart McGill
Researcher in Language Documentation
Discourse pragmatics, noun class/gender systems and agreement, language documentation and description, technology and language documentation, typology, phonology, Cicipu language (Kainji, Nigeria), Kainji languages, Benue-Congo languages
- Tel: 020 7898 4536
- Email: sm112@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4404
Irina Nikolaeva
Lecturer in Language Documentation and Description
Syntax, morphology, information structure, typology, lexicalist theories of grammar, Construction Grammar, documentation of endangered languages, Palaeosiberian linguistics, Uralic languages, Altaic languages, Tundra Nenets (northwestern Siberia)
- Tel: 020 7898 4250
- Email: in3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 428a
Kirsty Rowan
Senior Teaching Fellow
Comparative and theoretical phonology, writing systems, ancient African languages
- Email: kr2@soas.ac.uk
Itesh Sachdev
Professor of Language and Communication
Social psychology of language and intergroup relations, intercultural communication, identity (minority and majority), bi-multilingualism, multiculturalism, language attitudes and motivations
- Tel: 020 7898 4516
- Email: i.sachdev@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 442
Julia Sallabank
Research Fellow in Language Support and Revitalisation
Sociolinguistics, language support, language policy, revitalisation methods, literary practices in endangered languages, Guernesiais
- Tel: 020 7898 4326
- Email: js72@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 428b
Peter Sells
Professor of Linguistics
Korean and Japanese grammar and linguistic theory, negation and modality in Korean, Japanese historical syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, the morphology-syntax interface
- Tel: 020 7898 4652
- Email: sells@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 372
Endangered Languages Archive Staff
David Nathan
Endangered Languages Archivist
Digital preservation and mobilisation, language documentation and pedagogy methodology, multimedia
- Tel: 020 7898 4584
- Email: dn2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: R201
Tom Castle
Endangered Languages Archive Technician
Technical support for the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR)
- Tel: 020 7898 4523
- Email: tc23@soas.ac.uk
- Room: R201
Edward Garrett
Software Developer
Developing software enabling linguists, community members, and others to populate, administer, query, and re-purpose the Endangered Languages Archive.
- Tel: 020 7898 4588
- Email: eg15@soas.ac.uk
- Room: R201
Support Staff
Alison Kelly
ELAP Administrator
Administrative support for the Endangered Languages Academic Programme (ELAP)
- Tel: 020 7898 4578
- Email: ak69@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 364
- Office Hours: 9am-1pm & 2pm-5pm
Bernard J Howard
Technician
Technical and audio-visual support for the Department of Linguistics
- Tel: 020 7898 4974
- Email: bh@soas.ac.uk
- Room: L52
Research Associates
Emmon Bach
Professorial Research Associate
Model theoretic semantics, syntax, morphology; grammar and semantics of polysynthetic languages, Germanic languages, Wakashan languages, especially Haisla, Nuuchahnulth, Algonquian,Western Abenaki
- Email: ebach@linguist.umass.edu
Seongsook Choi
Research Associate
Syntax, syntax-lexicon/semantics interface, lexical semantics, event semantics, lexical aspect, complex predicates, multiple verb constructions, argument structure, Korean, West African languages, South Asian/Oceanic languages.
- Email: sc69@soas.ac.uk
Aslı Göksel
Research Associate
Word structure, morphology-syntax interface, prosody-syntax interface, information structure, Altaic languages, Turkish, Turkish Sign Language
- Email: gokselas@boun.edu.tr
Ruth Kempson
Professorial Research Associate
Syntax, semantics, Dynamic Syntax, diachronic syntax, modelling of dialogue in formal theories of language
- Email: ruth.kempson@kcl.ac.uk
Nicholas Ostler
Research Associate
Language dynamics and endangerment, Chibchan languages of Colombia, language contact in Asia, language histories, especially Latin, Sanskrit, Japanese
- Tel: 01225 852865
- Email: nostler@chibcha.demon.co.uk
