Linguistics Department Staff
Head of Department
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Undergraduate Programme Convenor
Dr Christopher Lucas (BA Linguistics)
Postgraduate Programme Convenors
Dr Barbara Pizziconi ( MA Arabic Language Teaching, MA Applied Linguistics and Language Pedagogy)
Professor Itesh Sachdev (MA Language Documentation and Description, MA Linguistics)
Dr Defeng Li ( MA Theory and Practice of Translation)
Postgraduate Research Tutor
Please note that for Masters Students the Admissions Tutor and Personal Tutor is the Postgraduate Programme Convenor.
Academic Staff
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
- Office Hours: Please email for an appointment
Maria Flouraki
Senior 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 - Email: mf44@soas.ac.uk
- Office Hours: Mondays 11:30-12:30/Tuesdays 11:30-12:30 (rm 376)
Nathan W. Hill
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Tibetan language from Old Tibetan to Modern Standard Tibetan; Tibetan historical and biographical literature; Central Asian languages, in particular Mongolian; Chinese minorities - Email: nh36@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4407
Noriko Iwasaki
Senior Lecturer in Language Pedagogy
Second language acquisition (grammatical and pragmatic development, impact of study abroad), language pedagogy, psycholinguistics (language production, cognition and language), Japanese linguistics.
- Tel: 020 7898 4394
- Email: ni3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 401
- Office Hours: Mondays 11:00- 13:00/Thursdays 15:00 - 17:00
- On Sabbatical:2012-13
Tania Kouteva
Visiting Alexander von Humboldt Research Professor
Grammatical typology, grammaticalization, morphosyntax, language contact, language evolution.
- Tel: 020 7898 4590
- Email: tk56@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4403
Christopher Lucas
Lecturer in Arabic Linguistics
Historical linguistics, Arabic linguistics, the syntax-semantics interface, pragmatics, philosophy of language, Dynamic Syntax, Relevance Theory, Arabic language, Afro-Asiatic languages
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4318
- Email: cl39@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 447
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00-12:00/Wednesdays 11:30-12:30
Friederike Lüpke
Senior 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: +44 (0)20 7898 4581
- Email: fl2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 367
- Office Hours: By pre-arranged appointment
- On Sabbatical:Term 1 2013/14
Lutz Marten
Professor of General and African Linguistics
Bantu languages and linguistics; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; historical linguistics; language and society in Eastern and Southern Africa
- Tel: 020 7898 4653
- Email: lm5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 473
- On Sabbatical:Term 1 2012
Irina Nikolaeva
Professor of Linguistics
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
- Office Hours: Mon 1-3(week 4,7,9), Weds 11-1 (week 5,6)
Kirsty Rowan
Senior Teaching Fellow
Comparative and theoretical phonology, Ancient Egyptian and Meroitic phonology, writing systems, Afro-Caribbean ritual languages
- Tel: 020 7631 6738
- Email: kr2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 514, Dept of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck
- Office Hours: Mondays 1-3pm
Candide Simard
Senior Teaching Fellow in Language Documentation and Description
Prosody, information structure and language contact. Jaminjung,Ngarinyman and all Australian languages. Language documentation and description.
- Email: cs75@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4403
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 16:00 - 17:00/ Thursdays 10:00-11:00
Justin Watkins
Senior Lecturer in the Languages and Linguistics of South East Asia
Burmese language and literature; Mon-Khmer and Tibeto-Burman languages; phonetics and speech acoustics; computer lexicography; sign languages in South East Asia
- Tel: 020 7898 4254
- Email: jw2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 462
- On Sabbatical:Academic Year 2012-2013
Endangered Languages Archive Staff
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Mandana Seyfeddinipur
Director, Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Senior Research Fellow
Language documentation, cultural and linguistic diversity in language use, multimodality with a focus on gesture, visual mode of language, language use and language documentation, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, the video in language documentation.
- Tel: 020 7898 4641
- Email: ms123@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 463
- Office Hours: Thursdays 15:00-17:00
Meili Fang
Research Associate
Japanese, Chinese, and Taiwanese: syntax, semantics and pedagogy. Language teaching methodologies and resources.
- Email: fang.meili@ocha.ac.jp
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
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: nicholas@ostler.net
