Dr Richard Ingham
Role: Reader
Tel: 0121 331 7664
Email: richard.ingham@bcu.ac.uk
Room: B622
Richard Ingham holds degrees from the Universities of Oxford and London, and has previously taught at the University of Reading. His teaching profile includes language acquisition, English grammar, and the linguistic history of English. His research interests are in language acquisition and change, with special reference to English. He has published in a large number of international refereed journals, such as Journal of Child Language, Linguistics, Lingua, Language Variation and Change, Transactions of the Philological Society, Linguistische Berichte, Medium Ævum and Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie. His most frequently cited publications are on Middle English negation and pronoun use in English child language. His current research focus is on in language in medieval England, especially English-French bilingualism. He has organised two British Academy-funded workshops on contact influences between English and French held here in 2007 and 2008. Following an ACU/BA funded research partnership scheme with the University of Cyprus, targeting leading issues in English historical syntax, he is co-investigator on a Leverhulme-funded research project into cycles of grammatical change.