Linguistics

These scholarships will cover full-time PhD tuition fees for three years (subject to satisfactory academic performance) and will provide a £900 per annum research training support grant (RTSG) to help support the PhD researcher.

Applicants who already hold a doctoral degree or who have been registered on a programme of research leading to the award of a doctoral degree on a full-time basis for more than one year (or part-time equivalent) are NOT eligible to apply for an award.

Please note: you will automatically be entered into the competition for the Full Award, unless you state otherwise in your application.

The scholarship will cover tuition fees at the Home rate and a maintenance allowance of £19,000 (tbc) per annum for three years (subject to satisfactory academic performance).

This scholarship also comes with £900 per annum for three years as a research training support grant (RTSG) allocation to help support the PhD researcher.

Folli, R. and Harley, H., (2020), A Head Movement Approach to Talmy's Typology, Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 51, No. 3, 15.07.2020, p. 425-470.

Alexopoulou, T. and Folli, R. (2020), Topic-strategies and the internal structure of nominal arguments in Greek and Italian. Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 50, No. 3, 01.06.2019, p. 439-486.

Folli, R. and Harley, H., (2007), Causation, obligation and argument structure: On the nature of little v, Linguistic Inquiry 38.2: 97-238.

Devlin, M., Folli, R., Henry, A. and Sevdali, C. (2015) Clitic right dislocation in English: cross-linguistic influence in multilingual acquisition, Lingua, vol 161, 101-124

Anagnostopoulou, E. and Sevdali, C., 2020. Two modes of dative and genitive case assignment: Evidence from two stages of Greek. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 38(4), pp.987-1051.

Anagnostopoulou, E. and Sevdali, C., 2015. Case alternations in Ancient Greek passives and the typology of Case. Language, pp.442-481. Gerard, J. (2021). Adjunct control and the poverty of the stimulus. In Non-canonical Control in a Cross-linguistic Perspective (Vol. 270, pp. 221–257). John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Gerard, J. (2022). The extragrammaticality of the acquisition of adjunct control. Language Acquisition, 29(2), 107–134. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2021.1971231

Gerard, J., Lidz, J., Zuckerman, S., & Pinto, M. (2017). Similarity-Based Interference and the Acquisition of Adjunct Control. Frontiers in Psychology, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01822

Kennedy, L.,  Romoli, J., Tieu, L., Moscati, V., Folli R.,  (2019) Beyond the scope of acquisition : A novel perspective on the isomorphism effect from Broca's aphasia, Language Acquisition, Vol. 26, No. 2, 03.04.2019, p. 144-152.

Kane , F., Kennedy, L., Sevdali, C., Folli R., Rhys, C. (2019) Language Made Fun: Supporting EAL students in primary education, Teanga: Special Edition: Multilingualism in the Early Years. Vol. 10 Special Issue. ed. Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2019. p. 113-125.

Stockwell, Richard. 2022. Contrast and verb phrase ellipsis: the case of tautologous conditionals. Natural Language Semantics 30: 77-100.

Stockwell, Richard, & Carson T. Schütze. 2022. The puzzling nuanced status of who free relative clauses in English: A follow-up to Patterson and Caponigro (2015). English Language and Linguistics 26(1): 185-202.