Language and Linguistics Postgraduate Research Students

Abdulelah Alsulami

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Abdul’s thesis is entitled ‘Overgeneralisation in L2 Morphosyntax and the Role of Alphabetic Literacy'.

Abdulrahman Alawadhi

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Abdulrahman’s thesis is entitled 'Gapping in Kuwaiti Arabic'.

Adam Sparrowhawk

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Adam’s thesis is entitled ‘Decline and Loss in the History of English Grammar: Towards a Systematic Approach'.

Alison Aspin

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Alison’s thesis is entitled ‘Words That Stay and Words That Go: Factors Affecting Word Survival and Obsolescence in English’.

Bella Reichard

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Bella’s thesis is entitled ‘REF2014 Impact Case Studies - Description or Persuasion?’

Bodur Alshathry

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Bodur’s thesis is entitled ‘Multilingualism in Riyadh: An Analytical Study of the Linguistic Landscape’.

Deanna Dawson

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Deanna's thesis is entitled 'Investigating the Decline in the Learning of German as an Additional Language Across NE England'

Faisal Alharbi

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Faisal’s thesis is entitled 'The Second Language Acquisition of English Phrasal Verbs by Arabic, Chinese and German Speakers'.

Fengting Du

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Fengting’s thesis is entitled ‘The Perception of and Adaptation to Regional and East Asian English Accents by Native and L2 English Speakers’.

Hind Alsaleh

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Hind’s thesis is entitled 'First language Attrition and Syntactic Subjects: A Study of Saudi-English and Iraqi-English Bilinguals'.

Holly Drayton

Doctoral Student in Literature - Holly’s thesis is entitled ‘Western Austronesian voice in three Lower Baram languages of northern Borneo: Description, Usage and Formal Syntactic Account’.

Huda Althobaiti

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Huda’s thesis is entitled ‘Bilingual Children's Syntactic and Morphosyntactic Awareness: A Comparison with Monolinguals in the Light of Salience, Language Experience and Age'

Iris Kleiman

Doctoral Student in Literature - Iris’s thesis is entitled 'Construction of Identity and Its Hybridity in the Brut Tradition of the Long 12th Century: A Comparative Analysis of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, and Layamon'.

Liam Garside

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Liam’s thesis is entitled 'The Syntax and Semantics of Causative and Perception Verbs in Romance: An Experimental Approach'

Nedal Karaim

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Nedal’s thesis is entitled ‘An Investigation into the Effects of Applying the Activities of Communicative Language Teaching Approach on English Learners’ Speaking Skills in Libya’.

Samer Hanafiyeh

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Samer’s thesis is entitled 'Acquisition of the Compounding Parameter by Arabic and Turkish Speaking L2ers'.

Sharifh Alqahtani

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Sharifh’s thesis is entitled 'The Interplay between Two L1 Arabic Varieties by English Learners'.

Sultan Alali

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Sultan’s thesis is entitled 'Variations of Hijazi Arabic among Bedouins and Non-Bedouins in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia'.

Xinyu Zhu

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Xinyu’s thesis is entitled ‘The Syntax of Reduplicated Adverbs in Mandarin'

Yuanlong Wang

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Yuanlong’s thesis is entitled 'The Perception and Production of Adult Native Mandarin Learners of L2 English with Regard to /w/-/v/ Acquisition'.