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Prof. Dr. Kate Burridge

Monash University
Linguistics

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
November 2017 – January 2018

E-Mail: kate.burridge@monash.edu

Last Update: 31.08.2018

Curriculum Vitae

Kate Burridge completed her undergraduate training in Linguistics and German at the University of Western Australia. This was followed by three years postgraduate study at the University of London. She completed her PhD in 1983 on syntactic change in medieval Dutch. Kate also taught briefly at the Polytechnic of Central London before joining the Department of Linguistics at la Trobe University in 1984. In February, she moved to Monash University to become Professor of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.

Kate has authored / edited more than 25 books and written around 100 articles and book chapters on different aspects of language, focusing on grammatical change, the Pennsylvania German spoken by Anabaptist communities in North America, the notion of linguistic taboo and the structure and history of English (focus on Australian English). She is a regular presenter of language segments on radio, has been a panelist on ABC TV’s Can We Help, and has given a TED Talk “Telling it like it isn’t”.

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project