RESEARCH
She is a historical linguist and works mainly on the medieval period. She is particularly interested in Anglo-Scandinavian linguistic contact and its effects on Old and Middle English. She is currently involved in three collaborative projects, which are linked by this overarching theme:
- ‘The Gersum Project: Scandinavian Influence on English Vocabulary’, funded by the AHRC.
- ‘Voices of Law: Language, Text and Practice’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
- ‘The Lindisfarne Gloss in its Dialectal Context: A Comparison between Lindisfarne and the Gloss to the Durham Collectar’, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. She has recently become interested as well in English historical stylistics, the topic of her latest book: The Language of Early English Literature: From Cædmon to Milton (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
She was also involved in past projects, belonging into the same field:
- ‘The Lindisfarne Gloss in its Dialectal Context: A Comparison between Lindisfarne and the Gloss to the Durham Collectar’. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
- ‘Reassessing the Historical Evidence: New Perspectives on the Lindisfarne Gloss’. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
- Compilation of the Seville Corpus of Northern English (texts are annotated with reference to phonological, morphosyntactic and lexical features characteristic of northern English). Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Programme for Scientific Research and Innovation and the European Regional Development programme.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Co-editor of the series New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Member of the Advisory Board of the NOWELE supplement series (John Benjamins)
- Member of the Editorial Board of SELIM (journal of the Spanish Society for the Study of Medieval English Language and Literature)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Affiliate of the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics (AMC)
- Member of the International Association of University Professors of English
- Member of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
- Member of the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
- Member of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM)
CONTACT
pons-sanzs@cardiff.ac.uk