Benjamin Molineaux

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Biography

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)

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