Research output per year
Research output per year
My research has so far mainly focused on aspects of the syntax of early English that are connected to word order, especially where there is some kind of problem with commonly made claims.
Grammaticalisation, or more specifically degrammaticalisation, has become another area of interest through my work on the negative particle ne ‘not’, which starts to appear separated from the verb in Middle English.
I have in addition branched out into historical dialectology through doing a careful assessment of the evidence for the claim that negative contraction was a syntactic dialect feature in Old English.
Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, October 2003-present.
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of York, September 2000-August 2003.
Current Honours/MSc courses: Reading Old English, Middle English (shared with Meg Laing and Keith Williamson), English Historical Syntax
Current pre-Honours teaching: Second year: lectures on historical (morpho-)syntax
Past courses: Early Modern English (Edinburgh; 2003), History of English (York; 2000-2003; tutorials and most lectures)
Course organiser of Linguistics and English Language 1, together with Ronnie Cann
College Library and Academic Computing Committee member (from 11/12)
University First Aider (March 2009-March 2012)
Course organiser of English Language 1 (until 10/11) and chair of the Board of Examiners for EL1/pre-honours English Language (06/07-10/11)
Library representative for LEL (from summer 2010)
Programme Director of the MSc in English Language (05/06)
Health and Safety Officer (05/06)
School Undergraduate Studies Committee (04/05-05/06; 07/08-present)
School Travel and Equipment Committee (04/05)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Linda Van Bergen (Keynote/plenary speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Linda Van Bergen (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Linda Van Bergen (Speaker)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Denison, D. (Creator) & Van Bergen, L. (Creator), John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 2002
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/david.denison/late18c
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