Our specialties

Our department covers all core areas of linguistics, with particular strengths in formal linguistics, sociolinguistics, and experimental linguistics:

• Phonetics/phonology - Chong, McCarthy
• Morphology - Harbour
• Syntax - Adger, Borer, van Urk
• Formal semantics - Martí, Pearson
• Sociolinguistics - Cotter, Holmes-Elliott, Lyons, Sharma, Gratton
• Psycholinguistics - Stockall

See our research pages for more information about our specializations and research activities.

The Department is a member of the ESRC-funded London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership, the Leverhulme-funded Mobile People: QMUL Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarships, and an associate member of the AHRC-funded London Arts and Humanities Partnership.

Membership in these consortia allows us to compete for prestigious and highly competitive funding awards, and provide our students with access to a range of training activities and opportunities to develop relationships with students and staff at other London institutions.