English Language and Linguistics Staff
Professor and Head of Department: Ralph Adendorff
Research interests:
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Systemic-functional approaches to linguistic analysis
- Ethnography
Associate Professor: Ron Simango
Research interests:
- The syntax of complex predicates
- Bantu language morphosyntax
- Language contact phenomena
- Language in education
Senior Lecturer: Mark de Vos
Research interests:
- The linguistics of literacy in Africa and African languages
- Syntactic theory
- Dialectology and linguistic varieties
- Semantics and Pragmatics
- Applied Linguistics
- Normalization, dependencies and linearization of syntactic relations
Lecturer: Sally Hunt
Research interests:
- Corpus linguistics
- (Critical) Discourse Analysis
- Language and Gender
Lecturer: William Bennett
Research interests:
- Phonetics and phonology
- Optimality theory
- African Languages
- Endangered language description
Lecturer: Kristin van der Merwe
Research interests:
- Early childhood development of language
- Language delays and other speech and language pathologies
- Psycholinguistic aspects of bilingualism and multilingualism
Lecturer: Ian Siebörger
Research interests:
- Literacies in context
- Linguistic ethnography
- Language of the media
- Systemic Functional Linguistics
- Legitimation Code Theory
Office Administrator: Nomvula Sitole
Administrative Assistant: Caron Kara
