Research
Research Interest 1
Adjectives, the Noun Phrase, the development of English language teaching in British schools (1970-1990)
Research grants
Assessing the intrinsic value, and health and well-being benefits, for individual and community, of The Reader Organisation's Volunteer Reader Scheme.
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2013 - September 2014
Research collaborations
Prof. Sylvia Adamson
The University of Sheffield
Project on the language of Jane Austen, whose outcome will be a comissioned volume with the same title for Cambridge University Press
Dr. Svenja Kranich
University of Hamburg (Germany)
Research project on subjectivity and subjectivisation in Spanish, English and German
Dr. Guillaume Thierry
Bangor University
Together with (Prof. Philip Davis), we investigate the effect on the brain of processes of Functional Shift (used by Shakespeare)
Dr. Javier Perez Guerra
Universidade de Vigo
Researcher on the literary style of the Late Modern English period
Dr. Nuria Yanez-Bouza
The University of Manchester
Creation of a corpus of children's writing based on the APU materials (held at the University of Liverpool); study of the impact of 18th c. lingustic purism on English grammaar teaching practices in the present day (1979-1988).