Kate Burridge
linguistics
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Germany
Biography
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. She 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 the Trobe University in 1984. In February, she moved to Monash University to become Professor of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. Kate has authored / edited more than 25 books and written around 100 articles and book chapters on different aspects of language, English (focus on Australian English). TED Talk "Telling it like it is not"
Research Interest
Her research interest is From obelisks and asterisks to modern-day views about English language usage
Publications
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Burridge, K. 2010. Gift of the Gob: Morsels of English Language History. Harper Collins.
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Burridge, K. & T. Stebbins, 2016. For the Love of Language. Cambridge University Press.
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Burridge, K. & A. Bergs 2017. Understanding Language Change . Routledge.
