Prof  Kersti Börjars - Postgraduate opportunities

I am happy to supervise students on a range of topics within morpho-syntax and historical linguistics and on a range of languages. I am currently supervising, or have recently supervised, on the following topics:

• Victoria Thomas
  Auxiliary omission in German embedded clauses from 1650 to 1800: a corpus study
• Ahmad Alotaibi
  Agreement in relative clauses in Modern Standard Arabic and the Najdi dialect: a Lexical-Functional Grammar analysis
• Safiah Madkhali
  A linguistics study of cognate object constructions in Arabic
• Pauline Harries
  Morphosyntactic change in Faroese and Insular Scandinavian: a study of definiteness and possession in diachrony
• Peter Andersson (University of Göteborg)
  The Swedish verb må: (de)grammaticalisation and modality
• Aveah Nsoh (the University of Manchester/the University of Ghana)
  Lexical-functional syntax of the adjective: a morpho-syntactic study of the Farefare language (Northern Ghana)
• Oliver Bond
  Aspects of Eleme verbal morpho-syntax
• Rob O'Connor
  Information structure in Lexical-Functional Grammar: the discourse-prosody correspondence