“This research unit has a presence on all university campus locations and has demonstrated its clear value to society and culture in this REF assessment.
Their research impact was ranked joint 1st in the UK for world-leading and internationally excellent category.
This is underpinned by a research environment achieving 85% and an overall profile scoring 79% for 4*/3* research.”
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Our Team
Name Role Comer, N Dr Lecturer in Irish Folli, R Professor Professor of Linguistics Fomin, M Dr Research Director - Modern Languages and Linguistics Gerard, J Dr Lecturer Harley, H Professor Professor of Linguistics Hughes, A Dr Reader Kennedy, L Dr Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy Mac Cathmhaoil, N Dr Lecturer in Irish Macleod, M Dr Research Associate in Computational/Text-Corpus Linguistics McDermott, P Dr Senior Lecturer O Donaill, C Dr Senior Lecturer Rhys, C Dr Head of School of Communication and Media Romoli, J Dr Senior Lecturer Sevdali, C Dr Senior Lecturer Sewell, F Dr Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Irish Literature in English Smith, P Dr Reader Stapleton, K Dr Senior Lecturer
“The impact of the unit work in Multilingualism, Irish Language Policy and Planning and Computer-Assisted Language Learning has been 100%-rated as internationally excellent.
It ranked first with a number of other institution for fundable 4/3* research and 11th in the UK for its GPA, which is a true reflection of the scope, the depth and the breadth of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Ulster engagement with multilingual community regionally, nationally and globally.”
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- A force-theoretic framework for event structure
- A Head Movement Approach to Talmy's Typology
- A Poem in Praise of St. Patrick
- Case alternations in Ancient Greek passives and the typology of Case
- Children's Knowledge of Free Choice Inferences and Scalar Implicatures
- Clitic right dislocation in English: Cross-linguistic influence in multilingual acquisition
- Eochaid Úa Flainn’s Éitset Áes Ecna Aíbind and Medieval Irish Poetics
- From ridicule to legitimacy? ‘Contested languages’ and devolved language planning
- Grammar and Epistemic Positioning: When Assessment Rules
- Greek (σ)τεγος “roof”, Old Irish teg, Clare Irish [tʹe’] “house”: a stratified reappraisal of “house” in pan-Gaelic
- Language rights and the Council of Europe: A failed response to a multilingual continent?
- Linguistic Recognition in Deeply Divided Societies: Antagonism or Reconciliation?
- Locality domains and morphological rules : Phases, heads, node-sprouting and suppletion in Korean honorification
- Ludwig Mühlhausen, Séamus Ó Caiside and Scéal Rí na Gréige : The Tale of ‘Three Golden Children’ (ATU 707) in 1937 Donegal
- On children’s variable success with scalar inferences: Insights from disjunction in the scope of a universal quantifier
- On the identity of roots
- On the role of alternatives in the acquisition of simple and complex disjunctions in French and Japanese
- Opaque and transparent datives, and how they behave in passives
- Plurality and cross-linguistic variation: An experimental investigation of the Turkish plural
- Postverbal negation and the lexical split of not
- Probability and implicatures: A unified account of the scalar effects of disjunction under modals
- Selected Poems: Seán Ó Ríordáin
- Similarity-Based Interference and the Acquisition of Adjunct Control
- Sloinnte Gaelacha i logainmneacha bharúntacht Chúil Raithin
- Swearing and perceptions of the speaker: A discursive approach
- Telling the Story: Meaning making in a community narrative
- Testing theories of temporal inferences: Evidence from child language
- The acquisition of adjunct control is colored by the task
- The Light of the Universe: Poems of Friendship and Consolation by Giolla Brighde Ó hEódhasa
- The scalar inferences of strong scalar terms under negative quantifiers and constraints on the theory of alternatives
- The status of passive constructions in Old English
- Three Poems of Welcome Ascribed to Domhnall Gorm Mag Lachlainn (fl. 1691), Church of Ireland Minister of Cluain Maine in Inis Eoghain
- Topic-strategies and the internal structure of nominal arguments in Greek and Italian
- Transitional Politics and Language Rights in a Multi-ethnic Northern Ireland: Towards a True Linguistic Pluralism?
- Two modes of dative and genitive case assignment: Evidence from two stages of Greek