Lisa Gotthard
Lecturer
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: l.gotthard@ed.ac.uk
- Web: https://www.lisagotthard.com/
- Web: Book a meeting with me!
Address
- Street
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Room 1.13, Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Background
I am Lecturer in English Language, with a research focus on English and Scots in the Early Modern period. I have parsed a corpus of Scots correspondence from 1540-1750 (the 'Parsed Corpus of Scottish Correspondence', to be made available), and have a keen interest in methods involving building and using parsed corpora. My other research interests involve syntactic variation and change, historical sociolinguistics, and language contact.
CV
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Qualifications
2013-16: BA with Honours in Linguistics, University of York
2016-17: MSc (Dist.) in English Language, University of Edinburgh
- Dissertation title: The diachrony of do-support in Scots
2018-22: PhD in Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh
- Title: Syntactic change during the anglicisation of Scots: Insights from the Parsed Corpus of Scottish Correspondence
- Supervisory team: Bettelou Los, Rob Truswell, Rhona Alcorn (ext.), Beatrice Santorini (ext.)
Undergraduate teaching
Autumn 2023
- LEL1A – History and Variation
- Scots & Scottish English – History, features, language status and planning
Spring 2024
- LEL2C: English in Time and Space – Scots and Scottish English
- History of Scots (CO)
Research summary
Historical Variation and Change in English and Scots, Syntax, parsed corpora, corpus methods, language contact, cross-germanic comparison
Affiliated research centres
Project activity
Since February 2022, I am working with Prof. George Walkden (PI) and Dr. Sirri Björnsdóttir (Uni Konstanz) on the project 'Modelling lexical diffusion in syntax: non-finite complementation in Modern English' -- project H4 under the research unit 'Structuring the Input in Language Processing, Acquisition and Change' (SILPAC). I spent 4 weeks at Uni Konstanz working on this project, from 17 Oct to 14 Nov 2022.
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English Historical Linguistics: Historical English in Contact
(185 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.359
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Extending defoe for the efficient analysis of historical texts at scale
(9 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience51609.2021.00012
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
Variation in subject-verb agreement in the History of Scots
In:
University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 27
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Why do-support in Scots is different
In:
English Studies, vol. 100, pp. 314-338
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2018.1558699
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)