PAUL KERSWILL – PUBLICATIONS AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES APRIL 2013 PUBLICATIONS Articles in peer-reviewed journals Cheshire, Jenny, Kerswill, Paul, Fox, Susan & Torgersen, Eivind (2011). Contact, the feature pool and the speech community: The emergence of Multicultural London English. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15/2: 151–196. Kerswill, Paul, Torgersen, Eivind & Fox, Susan (2008). Reversing ‘drift’: Innovation and diffusion in the London diphthong system. Language Variation and Change 20: 451– 491. Cheshire, Jenny, Fox, Sue, Kerswill, Paul & Torgersen, Eivind (2008). Ethnicity, friendship network and social practices as the motor of dialect change: linguistic innovation in London. Sociolinguistica 22. Special issue on Dialect Sociology, edited by Alexandra Lenz and Klaus J. Mattheier. pp. 1–23. Kerswill, Paul & Williams, Ann (2005). New towns and koineisation: linguistic and social correlates. Linguistics 43(5): 1023–1048. Torgersen, Eivind & Kerswill, Paul (2004). Internal and external motivation in phonetic change: dialect levelling outcomes for an English vowel shift. Journal of Sociolinguistics 8: 24–53. Kerswill, Paul & Williams, Ann (2000). Creating a new town koine: children and language change in Milton Keynes. Language in Society 29: 65–115. Kerswill, Paul (1996a). Children, adolescents and language change. Language Variation and Change 8: 177–202. Kerswill, Paul (1996b). Divergence and convergence of sociolinguistic structures in Norway and England. Sociolinguistica 10: 90–104. Kerswill, Paul (1995a). Phonological convergence and dialect contact: Evidence from citation forms. Language Variation and Change 7: 195–207. Kerswill, Paul (1993). Rural dialect speakers in an urban speech community: the role of dialect contact in defining a sociolinguistic concept. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 3: 33–56. Kerswill, Paul & Wright, Susan (1990). The validity of phonetic transcription: Limitations of a sociolinguistic research tool. Language Variation and Change 2: 255–75. Kerswill, Paul & Wright, Susan (1989a). Electropalatography in the study of connected speech processes. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 3: 49–57. Kerswill, Paul (1987a). Levels of linguistic variation in Durham. Journal of Linguistics 23: 25–49. Kerswill, Paul (1984) Social and linguistic aspects of Durham (e⍧). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 14: 13–34. Page 1 of 10 Books (edited) Wodak, Ruth, Johnstone, Barbara & Kerswill, Paul (eds.) (2010). Sage handbook of sociolinguistics. London: Sage. Culpeper, Jonathan, Katamba, Francis, Kerswill, Paul, McEnery, Anthony & Wodak, Ruth (eds.) (2009). English language: description, variation and context. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Auer, Peter, Hinskens, Frans & Kerswill, Paul (eds.) (2005). Dialect change: Convergence and divergence in European languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Book (authored) Kerswill, Paul (1994). Dialects converging: rural speech in urban Norway. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Book in preparation) Kerswill, Paul (in prep). The making of modern dialects. British English since 1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.) Chapters in books Kerswill, Paul. 2014 fc. The objectification of ‘Jafaican’: the discoursal embedding of Multicultural London English in the British media. In Androutsopoulos, Jannis (ed.) The Media and Sociolinguistic Change. Berlin: De Gruyter. Kerswill, Paul. 2013 fc. Koineization. In Chambers, J.K., Natalie Schilling & Peter Trudgill (eds.) Handbook of Language Variation and Change 2nd edn. Oxford: WileyBlackwell. Kerswill, Paul. 2013 fc. Identity, ethnicity and place: the construction of youth language in London. In P. Auer et al. (eds.) Space in Language and Linguistics. Berlin: De Gruyter. Kerswill, Paul & Kevin Watson. 2013 fc. Phonological considerations in sociophonetics. In Janet Holmes & Kirk Hazen (eds.) Research Methods in Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Kerswill, Paul, Cheshire, Jenny, Fox, Susan and Torgersen, Eivind (2013). English as a contact language: the role of children and adolescents. In Hundt, Marianne & Schreier, Daniel (eds.) English as a contact language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 258–282. Kerswill, Paul. 2012. Language variation I – Social factors: class and ethnicity. In Clayton, Dan (ed.) Language: a Student Handbook on Key Topics and Theories. London: English and Media Centre, pp. 23–43. Page 2 of 10 Kerswill, Paul (2010) Sociolinguistic approaches to language change: phonology. In Wodak, Ruth, Johnstone, Barbara & Kerswill, Paul. Sage handbook of sociolinguistics. London: Sage. 219–235. Kerswill, Paul (2010) Contact and new varieties. In Raymond Hickey (ed.) The handbook of language contact. Oxford: Blackwell. 230–251. Kerswill, Paul (2009). Language and social class. In Culpeper, Jonathan, Katamba, Francis, Kerswill, Paul, McEnery, Anthony & Wodak, Ruth (eds.). English language: description, variation and context. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 358–372. Kerswill, Paul and Jonathan Culpeper (2009). Standard English and standardisation. In Culpeper, Jonathan, Katamba, Francis, Kerswill, Paul, McEnery, Anthony & Wodak, Ruth (eds.) English language: description, variation and context. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 223–243. Kerswill, Paul (2007). Standard and non-standard English. In David Britain (ed.) Language in the British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 34–51. Kerswill, Paul (2007). Social class. In Carmen Llamas & Peter Stockwell (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics. London: Routledge. 51–61. Torgersen, E., Kerswill, P. and Fox, S. (2006). Ethnicity as a source of changes in the London vowel system. In Hinskens, F.(eds). Language variation - European perspectives. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 249–264. Kerswill, Paul & Linda Shockey (2006). The description and acquisition of variable phonological patterns: phonology and sociolinguistics. In Martha Pennington (ed.). Phonology in context. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 51–75. Kerswill, Paul (2006). Migration and language. In Klaus Mattheier, Ulrich Ammon & Peter Trudgill (eds.) Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguistik. An international handbook of the science of language and society, 2nd edn., Vol 3. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2271–2285. Kerswill, Paul and Peter Trudgill (2005). The birth of new dialects. In P. Auer, F. Hinskens & P. Kerswill (eds.). Dialect change: Convergence and divergence in European languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 196–220. Cheshire, Jenny, Paul Kerswill & Ann Williams (2005). Phonology, grammar, and discourse in dialect convergence. In P. Auer, F. Hinskens & P. Kerswill (eds.). Dialect change: Convergence and divergence in European languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 135–167. Hinskens, Frans, Peter Auer & Paul Kerswill (2005). The study of dialect convergence and divergence: conceptual and methodological considerations. In P. Auer, F. Hinskens & P. Kerswill (eds.). Dialect change: Convergence and divergence in European languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1–48. Kerswill, Paul (2004). Social dialectology/Sozialdialektologie. In Klaus Mattheier, Ulrich Ammon & Peter Trudgill (eds.) Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguistik. An international handbook of the science of language and society, 2nd edn., Vol 1. Berlin: De Gruyter. 22–33. Kerswill, Paul (2003). Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English. In D. Britain and J. Cheshire (eds.) Social dialectology. In honour of Peter Trudgill. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 223–243. Kerswill, Paul (2003). [in Norwegian] Modeller for språkendring og spredning. Nye funn fra dialektutjamning i britisk-engelsk [Models of linguistic change and diffusion. New findings from dialect levelling in British English]. In G. Akselberg, A. M. Bødal and H. Sandøy (eds.). Nordisk dialektologi. Oslo: Novus. 83–114. Page 3 of 10 Kerswill, Paul (2002). Koineization and accommodation. In J. K. Chambers, P. Trudgill & N. Schilling-Estes (eds.) The handbook of language variation and change. Oxford: Blackwell. 669–702. Kerswill, Paul (2002). A dialect with ‘great inner strength’? The perception of nativeness in the Bergen speech community. In Daniel Long & Dennis Preston (eds.) A handbook of perceptual dialectology, Vol. 2. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 155–175. Kerswill, Paul & Williams, Ann (2002). Dialect recognition and speech community focusing in new and old towns in England: the effects of dialect levelling, demography and social networks. In Daniel Long & Dennis Preston (eds.) A handbook of perceptual dialectology, Vol. 2. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 178–207. Kerswill, Paul & Williams, Ann (2002). ‘Salience’ as an explanatory factor in language change: evidence from dialect levelling in urban England. In M. C. Jones & E. Esch (eds.) Language change. The interplay of internal, external and extra-linguistic factors. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 81–110. Kerswill, Paul (2001). Mobility, meritocracy and dialect levelling: the fading (and phasing) out of Received Pronunciation. In P. Rajamäe & K. Vogelberg (eds.). British studies in the new millennium: the challenge of the grassroots. Tartu: University of Tartu. 45– 58. Also at http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/lang/rp.htm (website set up by the late Andrew Moore for ‘A’ level English Language students). Kerswill, Paul (2000). Linguistics in the UK and Germany: Differing approaches to a discipline at the sciences/humanities interface. In S. Peters, M. Biddiss & I. Roe (eds.) The humanities in the new millennium. Tübingen: A. Francke. 93–103. Kerswill, Paul & Williams, Ann (2000). Mobility and social class in dialect levelling: evidence from new and old towns in England. In Klaus Mattheier (ed.) Dialect and migration in a changing Europe. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. 1–13. Williams, Ann & Kerswill, Paul (1999). Dialect levelling: change and continuity in Milton Keynes, Reading and Hull. In Paul Foulkes & Gerard Docherty (eds.) Urban voices. Accent studies in the British Isles. London: Arnold. 141–162. Kerswill, Paul & Williams, Ann (1997). Investigating social and linguistic identity in three British schools. In U.-B. Kotsinas, A.-B. Stenström & A.-M. Malin (eds.) Ungdomsspråk i Norden. Föredrag från ett forskarsymposium [Youth language in the Nordic countries. Papers from a research symposium]. Series: MINS, No. 43. Stockholm: University of Stockholm, Department of Nordic Languages and Literature, 159–176. Williams, Ann & Kerswill, Paul (1997). Investigating dialect change in an English new town. In Alan Thomas (ed.) Issues and methods in dialectology. Bangor: Department of Linguistics, University of Wales, Bangor, 46–54. Kerswill, Paul (1996) Milton Keynes and dialect levelling in south-eastern British English. In Graddol, D., Swann, J. & Leith, D. (eds.) English: History, Diversity and Change. London: Routledge, 292–300. Kerswill, Paul (1994). [in Norwegian] Dialektkontakt og sosiolingvistiske strukturer i Norge og i England [Dialect contact and sociolinguistic structures in Norway and England]. In U.-B. Kotsinas and J. Helgander (eds.) Dialektkontakt, språkkontakt och språkförändring i Norden. Föredrag från ett forskarsymposium [Dialect contact, language contact and language change in the Nordic countries. Papers from a research symposium]. Series: MINS, No. 40. Stockholm: University of Stockholm, 220–231. Page 4 of 10 Kerswill, Paul (1994). Babel in Buckinghamshire? Pre-school children acquiring accent features in the New Town of Milton Keynes. In G. Melchers & N.-L. Johannessen (eds.), Nonstandard Varieties of Language: Papers from the Stockholm Symposium. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1994, 64–84. Kerswill, Paul (1991) (in Norwegian): Dialektkontakt i Bergen: Kan dagens innflyttere fortelle oss noe om en gammel prosess? [Dialect contact in Bergen: can present-day in-migrants tell us anything about an old process?] In K.J. Berge & U.-B. Kotsinas (eds.): Storstadsspråk och storstadskultur i Norden [Urban language and urban culture in the Nordic countries]. Series: MINS, No. 34. Stockholm: University of Stockholm, 34–45. Nolan, Francis & Kerswill, Paul (1990). The description of connected speech processes. In S. Ramsaran (ed.) Essays in Honour of A.C. Gimson. London: Routledge. 295–316. Kerswill, Paul & Wright, Susan (1989). On the limits of auditory transcription: a sociophonetic perspective. In M. E. H. Schouten & P. Th. van Reenen (eds.) New Methods in Dialectology. Proceedings of a workshop held at the Free University, Amsterdam, December 7–10, 1987, 45–60. Short note Kerswill, Paul (2008). Svar til doktoranden. [Invited response to PhD candidate Randi Solheim’s published presentation of her doctoral thesis ‘Språket i smeltegryta’, University of Trondheim] Maal og Minne 2008/1, pp. 23–26. Working papers Kerswill, Paul (2002). Models of linguistic change and diffusion: New evidence from dialect levelling in British English. (8,200 words) In S. Varlokosta & M. Georgiafentis (eds.) Reading Working Papers in Linguistics 6. 187–216. Also at http://www.rdg.ac.uk/app_ling/wp6/kerswill.pdf. Kerswill, Paul (2001). A dialect with ‘great inner strength’? The perception of nativeness in the Bergen speech community. In Michalis Georgiafentis, Paul Kerswill & Spyridoula Varlokosta (eds.) Reading Working Papers in Linguistics 5: 23–49. Also at http://www.rdg.ac.uk/app_ling/workingpapers/index.htm Kerswill, Paul & Williams, Ann (2000). ‘Salience’ as ‘an explanatory factor in language change: evidence from dialect levelling in urban England. In Paul Kerswill & Richard Ingham (eds.) Reading Working Papers in Linguistics 4: 63–94. Also at http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~llsroach/wp4.pdf Kerswill, Paul & Williams, Ann (1997). Creating a new town koine: children and language change in Milton Keynes. In Reading Working Papers in Linguistics 3:205–258. Dept. of Linguistic Science, University of Reading. Kerswill, Paul (1996). Dialect levelling, koinéisation and the speech of the adult migrant. In M. Meyerhoff (ed.) University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 3 (1): 237–246. Kerswill, Paul (1995). Surface and underlying phonological differences in the study of dialect contact: evidence from citation forms. In L. Shockey (ed.) Work in Progress 8. Speech Research Laboratory, Department of Linguistic Science, University of Reading, 78–88. Page 5 of 10 Kerswill, Paul (1995). Children, adolescents and language change. In P. Kerswill, R. Ingham, Y. Huang & L. Shockey (eds.) Working Papers in Linguistics 2, Department of Linguistic Science, University of Reading, 201–222. Kerswill, Paul (1992). Some principles of dialect contact: evidence from the New Town of Milton Keynes. In I. Philippaki-Warburton & R. Ingham (eds.) Working Papers 1992, Dept. of Linguistic Science, University of Reading, 68–90. Kerswill, Paul & Wright, Susan (1990). On the limits of auditory transcription: a sociophonetic approach. York Papers in Linguistics 14. Kerswill, Paul (1985). A sociophonetic study of connected speech processes in Cambridge English: an outline and some results. Cambridge Papers in Phonetics and Experimental Linguistics 4. Kerswill, Paul (1985). Native dialect and dialect mixing in Bergen: a perception experiment. Cambridge Papers in Phonetics and Experimental Linguistics 4. Kerswill, Paul (1982). The perception of tonemes in the Bergen region of Norway: a sociolinguistic approach. Cambridge Papers in Phonetics and Experimental Linguistics 1. Kerswill, Paul (1982). [in Norwegian] Tonempersepsjon i Bergen og på Knarvik. Eigenproduksjon 15/82: 64–81. University of Bergen, Nordisk institutt. Reviews Holmes, Janet & Kerswill, Paul (2008). Contact is not enough: a response to Trudgill. (Invited response to P. Trudgill: Colonial dialect contact in the history of European languages: on the irrelevance of identity to new-dialect formation.) In Language in Society 37(2): 273–277. Kerswill, Paul (2007). Review of Trudgill, P. (2004). Dialect contact and new-dialect formation: the inevitability of colonial Englishes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. In Language 83: 657–61. Kerswill, Paul (1992). N. Review of Dittmar, P. Schlobinski (1988). The sociolinguistics of urban vernaculars. Case studies and their evaluation. Berlin: De Gruyter. In Journal of Language and Social Psychology 11(4), 279–282. Kerswill, Paul (1987). Review of S. M. Bortoni-Ricardo (1985). The urbanization of rural dialect speakers. A sociolinguistic study in Brazil. Cambridge: CUP. In Journal of Linguistics 23, 487–8. Kerswill, Paul (1987). Review (in Norwegian) of E. Hanssen, E. H. Jahr, O. Rekdal & G. Wiggen (1986). Artikler 1–4 Talemålsundersøkelsen i Oslo (TAUS). In Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift 2-1987, 76–82. Page 6 of 10 ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Fellowship January–April 2010: Invited as External Senior Fellow of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Freiburg University, Germany Keynote/invited speaker and conferences and symposia (fully paid) • November 2012: Invited plenary at the conference ‘Talemålsutviklinga etter 1800’, University of Bergen • November 2012: Invited plenary at the 2012 Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference, Queen’s University, Belfast • March 2012: Invited plenary at English Phonology conference at Paris 13 University (organiser Nicolas Ballier) • November 2011: Invited plenary at symposium on Indexing authenticity: Perspectives from linguistics and anthropology. Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies • July 2011: Invited plenary at the interdisciplinary Spectres of Class conference, University of Chester • November 2010: Invited plenary at the Philological Society meeting, University of the West of England • October 2010: Invited plenary at the conference Nordic Language Variation: Grammatical, Sociolinguistic and Infrastructural Perspectives, University of Iceland • September 2009: Alf Sommerfelt Memorial Lecture, University of Tromsø • July 2009: Invited plenary speaker at International Conference on Language Variation in Europe 5, University of Copenhagen • August 2005: Invited discussant at meeting to prepare case for Centre of Excellence in Society and Language, University of Bergen, Norway • March 2005: Invited speaker at launch of Norwegian social dialectology project ‘Utviklingsprosessar i urbane språkmiljø’, Agder College, Kristiansand, Norway • September 2004: Invited plenary speaker at New Zealand Language and Society Conference, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand. (part paid) • August 2002: Invited plenary speaker at 7th Nordic Conference on Dialectology, Voss, Norway Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Language Change In Real Time (LANCHART) I was on the International Council for the above project, based at Copenhagen University. This entailed consultancy on an annual basis in the period 2006–2008 Page 7 of 10 Invited overseas research lectures since 2006 Excluding the keynotes above, since 1986 I have been an invited, fully or partly paid guest speaker at 33 research meetings overseas (plus 24 research meetings in the UK). Recent highlights include: • March 2013: University of Berne: ‘The objectification of ‘Jafaican’: the discoursal embedding of Multicultural London English in the British print media’ • March 2013 University of Zurich: ‘Multicultural London English: a new phonological variety?’ • February 2013: LiLPa, Université de Strasbourg: Two lectures: ‘A critical look at dialect levelling in Britain: the long view(1800–2013)’ and ‘Multicultural London English: the emergence of a new ‘dialect’ in a globalised city’. • April 2012: Sessions on dialect contact and new-dialect formation, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Tokyo • January 2011: Guest lecture, Centre for Bilingualism Research, University of Stockholm: Contact, the feature pool and the speech community: The emergence of Multicultural London English • August 2010: Guest lecture, Department of Linguistics, University of Cape Town: Contact, the feature pool and the speech community: The emergence of Multicultural London English • August 2010: Guest lecture, Department of Linguistics, University of Ghana: Investigating new youth language varieties in Africa and in Europe: points of similarity and contrast • June 2010: Zurich University: paper entitled ‘Innovation and contact: The role of children and adolescents’ at the conference ‘English as a Contact Language (EcoLa)’ (with Jenny Cheshire). • November 2009: Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies: presentation entitled ‘Supralocalisation equals deracination; innovation equals striking new roots’ at workshop on ‘Language, Space and Geography’ • January 2009: Wassenaar, The Netherlands: Invited participation in a workshop on ‘The Emergence of Multi-Ethnic Varieties’. • September 2008: Bergen University: Lecture (in Norwegian) at opening meeting of the project ‘Processes of Dialect Change’. • July 2008: University of Ghana, Dept. of Linguistics: ‘The African diaspora and London English’. • June 2008: CNRS, Paris, Fédération typologique: ‘Dialect contact and innovation’. • October 2007 Hamburg University, Research Centre on Multilingualism: Colloquium on convergence and divergence in language contact situations: ‘Dialect levelling and dialect divergence in south-east England: the role of minority ethnic Englishes in phonetic innovation in London’ (fully paid) • July 2007 Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok: 4 lectures on ‘New Directions in British Social Dialectology’ and 3 days’ consultancy on social dialectology (fully paid) • March 2007 ‘Dialect levelling is dead: innovation in inner-London teenage speech’. Research seminar given to the School of English, National University of Singapore. Page 8 of 10 • • • • February 2007 Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, public lecture: ‘Where are English accents heading? The familiar – and the strange. Or: Is the Queen’s English going to the dogs?’ February 2007 ‘Dialect levelling is dead: innovation in inner-London teenage speech’. Research seminar given to the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington. January 2007 ‘Innovation in inner-London teenage speech’. Research seminar given to the Department of Linguistics, Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand. June 2006 Copenhagen University, annual meeting of the Project on Language Change in Real Time (LANCHART): ‘Relationships between variables at different linguistic levels’ (fully paid) Lectures given by invitation at Doctoral level since 2002 (fully paid) • • • • • • • • • • • • April 2013 University of Freiburg: 1st ISLE Spring School on ‘Englishes in a Multilingual World: New Dynamics of Variation, Contact and Change’ September 2012 PhD Research School in Linguistics and Philology: Masterclasses on Norwegian dialects. University of Bergen June 2012 Participation in workshop on ‘Salience’, Laboratory for Linguistics and Didactics of 1st and 2nd Languages, University of Grenoble 3 September 2011 University of Bergen: lectures on sociolinguistics typology and newdialect formation July 2011 African Linguistics School summer school, Porto-Novo, Republic of Benin. Organised by New York and Amsterdam Universities. Lectures on sociolinguistics and contact August 2009 Linguistic Society of America, 65th Institute, Berkeley: Lectures on dialect contact and dialect formation June 2009 Edinburgh University: Edinburgh Sociolinguistics Summer School. Workshop on ‘Studying phonetic/phonological change in its social context’ and plenary lecture ‘Levelling and innovation in Britain: contact and isolation September 2008 Bergen University: Two lectures (in Norwegian) on ‘Processes of change in British English dialects’ June 2007 Copenhagen University, Sociolinguistics Summer School: ‘Language variation in a metropolis: London’ September 2003 4 lectures on social dialectology at Summer School on ‘Sociolinguistic approaches to language change’, University of Berne April 2003 2 lectures on social dialectology at North West Centre for Linguistics Spring Research Training Programme, Universities of Salford and Manchester June 2002 5 lecture-workshops on dialect contact and koineisation to PhD students, University of Leipzig Page 9 of 10 Lectures given by invitation at BA and MA level since 2004 (fully paid) • August–September 2010 University of Cape Town, lecture course on Sociolinguistics • August–September 2004 Victoria University of Wellington, lecture courses on Sociolinguistics Doctoral students since 2001 Saudi Sadiq Mohammad Mohammad (2012-) Lucinda Machell-ffolkes (ESRC; 2010-) Shaun Austin (ESRC; 2010-) Helen West (AHRC, jointly supervised; 2009-13) Werdan Kassab (2008-) Kate Whisker (ESRC; 2007-12) Kasia Alexander (part time; 2007Elaheh Almousavi (2007-) Frank van Splunder (jointly supervised, part time, 2005-10) Arfaan Khan (ESRC; 2002-2006) Julia Sallabank (ESRC part time; 2000-2006) – plus 15 successful PhD completions in 1988–2001 Conference organisation Principal organiser: o Sixth UK Language Variation and Change Conference (with Eivind Torgersen; September 2007) o First Northern Englishes Workshop (inaugural meeting, 31 March–1 April 2006) o Final Open Conference of the ESF network on Dialect Convergence and Dialect Divergence (September 1998) o First UK Language Variation and Change Conference (September 1997) o Sociolinguistics Symposium 9 (April 1992) • I initiated the UK Language Variation and Change Conference in 1997 and the Northern Englishes Workshop in 2006. The former is now biennial, the latter annual. • In July 2004 I was co-organiser, with PhD students Arfaan Khan and Julia Sallabank, of a BAAL/CUP seminar on Language and Identity at Reading University. (http://www.rdg.ac.uk/slals/identity_seminar/index.htm) • Page 10 of 10