Newcastle University

Current Projects

• A Linguistic 'Time-Capsule' for the Google Generation - DECTE
  Project Leader(s): Prof. Karen Corrigan
  A Linguistic 'Time-Capsule' for the Google Generation: The Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English.
• Devolving Diasporas
  Project Leader(s): Dr James Procter
  DEVOLVING DIASPORAS is a three-year project (2007-2009) investigating the relationship between reading, location, and migration.
• EU-Speak
  Project Leader(s): Dr. Martha Young-Scholten
  Capturing local best practice in the provision of second language teaching and professional training.
• Postcolonial Translation: The Case of South Asia
  Project Leader(s): Dr Neelam Srivastava and Dr Baidik Bhattacharya
  A 3-year collaborative project between Newcastle and other UK and Indian universities, on theories and practices of translation in 5 Indian languages: Bengali, English, Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil.
• Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages: The Poetry of the Kings sagas
  Project Leader(s): Dr. Diana Whaley
• The Origins of Early Modern Literature - recovering mid-Tudor writing for a modern readership
  Project Leader(s): Professor Mike Pincombe (University of Newcastle ), Dr Cathy Shrank (University of Aberdeen)
• The Syntax of Yes and No
  Project Leader(s): Prof. Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University)
  On how you answer yes/no questions in the languages of the world.

Completed Projects

• A Linguistic Time-Capsule: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (NECTE), AHRB project code RE11776
  Project Leader(s): K. Corrigan, J. Beal, H. Moisl
• Null Subjects and the Structure of Parametric Theory
  Project Leader(s): Professor Anders Holmberg (University of Newcastle), Ian Roberts and David Willis (University of Cambridge)
• Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages: Olaf I of Norway
  Project Leader(s): Dr Diana Whaley
• The Poems of Shelley
  Project Leader(s): Dr. Jack Donovan (University of York), Dr. Michael Rossington (Newcastle University).
• The Study of Nuuchahnulth Grammar: Consequences for a theory of language
  Project Leader(s): Dr. John Stonham