Methods in the Humanities

Agnes Andeweg, PhD

• Gothic literature and research methods

Jocelyn Ballantyne, PhD

• Formal models in syntax and semantics

• Syntax-semantics and prosody-syntax interface

• Semantic focus and information structure

• Interaction of L1/L2-morphosyntax

• Student-drive research

Patricia Canning, PhD

• Interdisciplinary approach to language and literature, which incorporates stylistics, forensic linguistics, cognitive poetics, phenomenology, and reader-response

Gaetano Fiorin, PhD

• Member of European FP7 Research Consortium AThEME (Advancing the European Multilingual Experience)

• Theoretical and experimental linguistics

• Language acquisition and language pathologies, in particular, dyslexia

• Model-theoretic semantics and implications for cognitive sciences and philosophy of mind.