Prof Kathryn Burridge - Researcher Profile

Biography

Kate Burridge completed her undergraduate training in Linguistics and German at the University of Western Australia. This was followed by three years postgraduate study at the University of London. Kate completed her PhD in 1983 on syntactic change in medieval Dutch. She also taught at the Polytechnic of Central London before joining the Department of Linguistics at la Trobe University in 1984. In 2003 she took up the Chair of Linguistics in the Linguistics Program in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University.

Kate is also a regular presenter of language segments on ABC Radio.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: London

Year awarded: 2005

Publications

Books

Burridge, K., 2010, Gift of the Gob: Morsels of English Language History, Harper Collins, Sydney, Australia.

Haugh, M., Burridge, K., Mulder, J., Peters, P. (eds), 2009, Selected proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet workshop on designing the Australian National Corpus: Mustering Languages, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville MA USA.

Allan, K., Burridge, K., 2006, Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge England.

Burridge, K., 2005, Weeds in the Garden of Words: Further Observations on the Tangled History of the English Language, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK.

Burridge, K., 2004, Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivation and Hybrids of the English Language, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK.

Burridge, K., 2004, Weeds in the Garden of Words: Further Observations on the Tangled History of the English Language, ABC Books, Sydney NSW Australia.

Book Chapters

Burridge, K., Peters, P., 2012, English in Australia and New Zealand, in Areal Features of the Anglophone World, eds Raymond Hickey, De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin Germany, pp. 233-258.

B??rjars, K., Burridge, K., 2011, From preposition to purposive to infinitive marker: The Pennsylvania German fer...zu construction, in Studies on German-Language Islands, eds Michael T. Putnam, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 385-411.

Burridge, K., 2011, Metaphors we teach by: sometimes they throw in a fish, in Teaching Linguistics: Reflections on Practice, eds Koenraad Kuiper, Equinox, London UK, pp. 221-232.

Burridge, K., 2010, 'A peculiar language': Linguistic evidence for early Australian English, in Varieties in Writing: The Written Word as Linguistic Evidence, eds Raymond Hickey, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 295-348.

Burridge, K., 2010, English in Australia, in The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes, eds Andy Kirkpatrick, Routledge, London United Kingdom, pp. 132-151.

Allan, K., Burridge, K., 2009, Swearing, in Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and Beyond, eds Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 361-386.

Burridge, K., 2006, Complement clause types in Pennsylvania German, in Complementation: A Cross-Linguistic Typology, eds R.M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, pp. 49-71.

Burridge, K., 2006, Language contact and convergence in Pennsylvania German, in Grammars in Contact: A Cross-Linguistic Typology, eds Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, pp. 179-200.

Burridge, K., Kortmann, B., 2004, Introduction: Varieties of English in the Pacific and Australasia, in A Handbook of Varieties of English, eds Bernd Kortmann, Kate Burridge, Edgar Schneider, Raj Mesthrie, Clive Upton, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin Germany, pp. 567-579.

Burridge, K., 2004, Synopsis: morphological and syntactic variation in the Pacific and Australasia, in A Handbook of Varieties of English, eds Bernd Kortmann, Kate Burridge, Rajend Mesthrie, Edgar W Schneider and Clive Upton, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin Germany, pp. 1116-1131.

Burridge, K., 2004, Synopsis: phonetics and phonology of English spoken in the Pacific and Australasian region, in A Handbook of Varieties of English, eds Bernd Kortman, Kate Burridge, Rajend Mesthrie, Edgar W Schneider and Clive Upton, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin Germany, pp. 1089-1097.

Burridge, K., 2002, Changes within Pennsylvania German grammar as enactments of Anabaptist world view, in Ethnosyntax: Explorations in Grammar and Culture, eds Nick J. Enfield, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, pp. 207-230.

Burridge, K., 2002, Steel tyres or rubber tyres - maintenance or loss: Pennsylvania German in the `horse and buggy' communities of Ontario, in Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance: An Active Approach, eds David Bradley and Maya Bradley, Curzon Press, London UK, pp. 203-229.

Burridge, K., 2000, Polcor - Big Brother, Thomas Bowdler or June Dally-Watkins, in Style in Context: Language at Large, eds Pam H. Peters, Macquarie University: Dictionary Research Centre, pp. 26-46.

Journal Articles

Burridge, K., 2012, Euphemism and language change: The sixth and seventh ages, Lexis - e-journal in English lexicology [E], vol 7, Centre d'Etudes Linguistiques (CEL), Lyon France, pp. 65-92.

Burridge, K., 2010, Linguistic cleanliness is next to godliness: taboo and purism, English Today: The International Review of the English Language [P], vol 26, issue 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 3-13.

Burridge, K., 2007, A separate and peculiar people - fieldwork and the Pennsylvania Germans, Sprachtypologie and Universalienforschung (Language Typology and Universals), vol 60, issue 1, Akademie Verlag GmbH, Muchen Germany, pp. 32-41.

Burridge, K., Allan, K., 2007, Taboo, censoring and the human brain, The Fine Print, vol 1, issue 4, Emend Editing, http://www.emendediting.com/html/ezine/index.html, pp. 6-19.

Burridge, K., 2007, Two loaves where there seems to be one: metaphors we teach by, Te Reo, vol 50, Linguistic Society of New Zealand, New Zealand, pp. 93-105.

Burridge, K., 2005, Meet the language experts: "corruptions of ignorance", "caprices of innovation": linguistic purism and the lexiographer, Idiom, vol 41, issue 2, Victorian Association for the Teaching of English Inc., Carlton North Vic Australia, pp. 16-26.

Burridge, K., 2004, Proper English: rhetoric or reality, English Australia Journal, vol 22, issue 1, English Australia Pty Ltd, Darlinghurst NSW Australia, pp. 8-19.

Burridge, K., Florey, M., 2002, 'Yeah-no he's a good kid': a discourse analysis of yeah-no in Australian English, Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol 22, issue 2, Carfax Publishing, Abingdon UK, pp. 149-171.

Conference Proceedings

Burridge, K., 2007, Linguistic purism: the tug-of-love between standard and nonstandard, English in South East Asia: Challenges and Changes, 12 December 2006 to 14 December 2006, Curtin University of Technology, W.A. Australia, pp. 12-37.

Other

Bradshaw, J.M., Deumert, A., Burridge, K., Izon, M.A., Willoughby, L.J.V., 2008, Victoria's Languages: Gateway to the World, VITS Language Link, Melbourne VIC Australia, pp. 1-173.

Burridge, K., 2006, Taboo words, Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics, Elsevier, Oxford UK, pp. 452-455.

Burridge, K., 2006, Taboo, euphemism, and political correctness, Encyclopedia of Languages & Linguistics, Elsevier, Oxford UK, pp. 455-462.

Burridge, K., 2005, Language, The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, New York USA, pp. 401-402.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Indo-European migrations, 4000-1500 BCE : a comparative historical-dialectological study.

Supervisors:

Burridge, K (Main), Bradshaw, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Metaphor in Mental Illness.

Supervisors:

Burridge, K (Main), Gaby, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Koori Court of Victoria:An Answer to Cultural and Language Disadvantage for Indigenous Offenders.

Supervisors:

Castan, M (Main), Burridge, K (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

A'Beckett, M.

Program of Study:

Gender assignment and word-final pronunciation in French: two classification systems. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Burridge, K (Associate).

Student:

Balint, A.

Program of Study:

Utterance and discourse in context: a process model of the architectural and operational Gestalt of interlocutory language usage. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Allan, K (Main), Burridge, K (Associate).

Student:

Dewi, A.

Program of Study:

Perception of English: a study of staff and students at universities in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Sharifian, F (Main), Burridge, K (Associate).

Student:

Franke, K.

Program of Study:

"We call it Springbok-German!": language contact in the German communities in South Africa. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Kreutz, H (Main), Burridge, K (Associate).

Student:

Kuhn, O.

Program of Study:

The lexical behaviour of language families: qualitative lexicostatistics. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Allan, K (Main), Burridge, K (Associate).

Student:

Paredes, K.

Program of Study:

FRAMING IN HISPANIC-AUSTRALIAN ADOLESCENT NARRATIVES: WORST HOLIDAY STORIES AS AN EXPRESSION OF IDENTITY. (Masters) 2009.

Supervisors:

Cordella Masini, M (Main), Burridge, K (Associate).

Student:

Pho, P.

Program of Study:

Research articles in applied linguistics and educational technology: a corpus-based study of rhetorical moves and authorial stance. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Bradshaw, J (Main), Burridge, K (Associate), Musgrave, S (Associate).