Benjamin Molineaux
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Room 2.14, Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Availability
My office hours are Tue 11:30-12:30 & Fri 11:00-12:00
Background
I am currently working on a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship entitled "Digital methods in New-World language change: Words & sounds in older Mapudungun", which explores the 400-year textual history of Mapudungun, the ancestral language of the Mapuche people of south-central Chile and Argentina. In order to explore the development of the language's phonology and morphology, I am in the process of building a Corpus of Historical Mapudungun (https://benmolineaux.github.io/).
This is my second project at the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics, following on from the FITS Project (From Inglis to Scots: Mapping sounds to spellings), which uses spelling variation within the Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots to track the development of the language's sounds across time and space.
I am generally interested in Histrorical Phonology and, in particular, prosodic structure and its impact on morphology. I have applied these intrests to my work on Mapudungun, Older Scots and Old and Middle English.
During 2018-19 I am coordinator for the History of Scots course.
Responsibilities & affiliations
The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics (Secretary)
The English Language Research Group (Convenor)
History of Scots Course (Coordinator)
Research summary
Historical phonology, morpho-phonlogy, stress systems, stress perception, Mapudungun (Araucanian), Old and Middle English, Older Scots