What interests me: The structural variability across North, South, and regional Welsh dialects, particularly where register diverges from both Formal Welsh and Literary Welsh.
Key questions to explore: How do modern syntax constructions (e.g., agreement variation, auxiliary selection, mutation patterns, modalisation, etc.) reflect underlying grammatical evolution?
Research focus: Documenting and analysing non-standard dialectal constructions through field data or corpora; tracking grammaticalisation processes in contemporary spoken Welsh.
What interests me: The cognitive and sociolinguistic mechanics of Welsh-English bilingualism in everyday speech communities.
Key questions to explore: What constraints govern code-switching and code-mixing between modern Welsh and English? How does long-term language contact influence Welsh syntax?
Research focus: Analysing natural speech corpora of Welsh-English bilinguals to map syntactic boundaries in code-switched utterances; examining language maintenance and shift dynamics.
What interests me: How religious discourse, scripture, and beliefs shape-are shaped by-identity, political ideology, and linguistic power structures.
Key questions to explore: What has brought on the rise of the far-right extremists and Christian nationalists in the UK? How does scripture influence the law and manifestos of political parties? Why does MAGA want America to become a theocracy? How pinkwashing has been used by the media to commend the genocide in Palestine?
Research focus: Critical discourse analysis of historical and modern religious texts; analysing the theopolitical impact of scripture on written law; identifying religious language in supposed "secular" texts.
What interests me: The diachronic evolution of insular languages, structural shifts over time, and the textual culture of early medieval Britain.
Key questions to ask: How does Old English literature inform our understanding of sexuality and gender in Anglo-Saxon society? How much of an influence did Primitive & Old Welsh have on Old English's development? What can we learn about the Pictish language from place-names in Northern England and Southern Scotland?
Research focus: Philological and semantic analysis of early medieval manuscripts, corpus studies of structural changes during Old English's development, and Anglo-Saxon society.
What interests me: Non-linguists' perceptions on British Sign Language, the typology of spatial grammar compared to spoken languages, non-manual markers, and the visual-spatial modality of sign languages.
Key questions to explore: How does BSL organise spatial syntax, agreement, and aspect compared to linear spoken grammars? What are the sociolinguistic dynamics within the British Deaf community regarding regional sign variation?
Research focus: Typological comparisons between BSL structural features and spoken language morphosyntax; documenting variation in BSL spatial reference and classifier constructions.