Dr Johannes Heim, Lecturer in Linguistics (Co-director)
Johannes M. Heim is a Lecturer in Linguistics at the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen. His research investigates how adults and infants use interactional units of language (particles, prosody, and gesture) in conversation. Much of this work combines qualitative and quantitative approaches, spans several interfaces of linguistic research, and is couched in a syntactocentric framework.
Prof Robert McColl Millar, Professor in Linguistics and Scottish Language (Co-director)
Robert McColl Millar is Professor in Linguistics and Scottish Language. He has published widely on the interface between Gaelic and Scots in Northern Scots, lexical attrition in Modern Scots, rapid language change and its connection with attitudes in modern Scotland, language policy towards Scots, the connection between language standardisation and the development of the nation state and the sociology of language.
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