Bettelou Los

Professor

  • Linguistics and English Language
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

Room 2.07, Dugald Stewart Building

City
3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9AD

Undergraduate teaching

No

Postgraduate teaching

No

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

No

Areas of interest for supervision

My expertise is in the history of English (Old, Middle and Early Modern English) and early Germanic languages. I am particularly interested in how syntax interacts with discourse and information structure. I am however no longer taking on new PhDs.

Current PhD students supervised

 

Research summary

Historical syntax, early Germanic, Old English, history of English, Information Structure/Discourse Structure

Current research interests

My present research interest is the role of information structure and discourse in syntactic change.

Past research interests

The genesis of non-finite forms (particularly the to-infinitive in English) and phrasal verbs.

Affiliated research centres