Professor Kate Burridge
Qualifications and Positions
- BA (Honours, University of West Australia)
- PhD (London) FAHA
- Chair of Linguistics, Monash University
Background
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. Kate completed her PhD in 1983 on syntactic change in medieval Dutch. She also taught at the Polytechnic of Central London before joining the Department of Linguistics at la Trobe University in 1984. In 2003 she took up the Chair of Linguistics in the Linguistics Program in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University.
Kate is also a regular presenter of language segments on ABC Radio.
Research Areas
- Grammatical change in Germanic languages;
- the Pennsylvania German spoken by Amish and Mennonite communities in Canada;
- the notion of linguistic taboo;
- the structure and history of English.
Other
Contact
Prof Kate Burridge
Linguistics
Program
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Building 11
Monash University
Victoria
3800
Australia
Ph: +61 (3) 9905 8099
Fax: +61 (3) 9905 5437
Email: Kate.Burridge@arts.monash.edu.au