Edward Li

PhD Linguistics & English Language

  • Linguistics and English Language
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

Dugald Stewart Building

City
3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9AD

Qualifications

2018-present: PhD Linguistics and English Language, The University of Edinburgh

  • Project: The Division of Labour between the Locative Inversion Construction and the Existential Constructions in English:  Perspective and Fictive Paths

2016-2017: MSc English Language,  The University of Edinburgh 

  • Dissertation: How Information Structural Constraints Bias Comprehenders to Expect New Information

2011-2015: BA English, Fujian Medical University

  • Dissertation: Gender Differences in Emotive Expressions—A Case Study of Pride and Prejudice

 

 

Responsibilities & affiliations

Member of The Linguistic Society of Belgium 

https://sites.uclouvain.be/bkl-cbl/en/members/directory/

 

 

Undergraduate teaching

09/2019 - 08/2020: Tutor in Linguistics and English Language 

09/2019 - 08/2021:  Tutor in PPLS Writing Centre

Conference details

I am interested in conferences that focus on General Linguistics, Pragmatics, Syntax and Construction Grammar.

 

Invited speaker

22/10/2021

Linguist’s Day of the Linguistic Society of Belgium

Title: The Distribution and Constraints of Existential Clauses and Locative Inversion in English, Brussels, Belgium.

 

12/06/2021

Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference

Title: The Distribution and Constraints of Existential Clauses and Locative Inversion in English, Edinburgh, UK.