Staff Profile
Mary Robinson
Research Associate Language Variation
- Email: mary.robinson2@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/maryrobinson/home
Background
I am a Research Associate in Language Variation and Change working with the data collected as part of the Múin Béarla project.
I was awarded my Ph.D. in Linguistics from New York University in September 2022. Prior to my appointment at Newcastle University, I was a Research Assistant in Sociolinguistics at the University of Glasgow.
Research
I work at the interface of syntax and sociolinguistics, exploring practical issues of data collection and analysis, as well as theoretical issues about the location of variation in the grammar and modelling (morpho-)syntactic variation with the tools of generative syntax. I use corpus and experimental work to investigate morpho-syntactic variation and the social meaning associated with the use of different linguistic variants.
Publications
- Smith J, Aitken B, Eunson B, Robinson M. Speak for Yersel. Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 2022.
- Robinson M, Thoms G. Long distance negative concord in English. In: NELS 51: proceedings of the fifty-first annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. 2021, Universite du Quebec a Montreal: University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
- Robinson M, Thoms G. On the Syntax of English Variable Negative Concord. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 2021, 27(1), 24.
- Robinson M, Duncan D. Holistic approaches to syntactic variation: Wh-all questions in English. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 2019, 25(1), 23.