Assistant Professor in English Historical Linguistics at the Department of English and the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (OTS) at Utrecht University. Her research interests cover historical linguistics, language variation and change, and Old and Middle English dialects, particularly Old Northumbrian and northern Middle English. Her teaching interests also include English medieval culture and literature.<\/p>\n
After completing B.A. programmes in English at Reading University and English Language and Linguistics at Seville University, Marcelle Cole obtained her Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Seville (Spain). Her dissertation (Old Northumbrian Verbal Morphosyntax and the (Northern) Subject Rule<\/em>, John Benjamins, 2014) explores verbal morphosyntax in Old Northumbrian in relation to the grammatical constraint known as the Northern Subject Rule. Before her appointment at Utrecht University, she was Assistant Professor at the Department of English and the Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) at Leiden University.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cole, M. 2019. Subject and adjacency effects in the Old Northumbrian gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels. English Language and <\/em>Linguistics, 23 (1) (pp. 131-154).<\/p>\n Cole, M. 2018. A native origin for they, their, them: tracing the linguistic path of Old English \u00fe\u0101, \u00fe\u0101ra, \u00fe\u0101m from Old Northumbrian to northern Middle English. Diachronica <\/em>35:2 (2018), 165\u2013209.<\/p>\n Cole, M. 2017. Pronominal anaphoric strategies in the West Saxon dialect of Old English. Special Issue: Cognitive Approaches to the History of English. English Language and Linguistics<\/em> 21.1: 381-408.<\/p>\n Cole, M. 2012. The Old English origins of the Northern Subject Rule: evidence from the Lindisfarne gloss to the Gospels of John and Mark. Language Contact and Development around the North Sea<\/em> (pp. 141-168). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.<\/p>\n Cole, M. 2008. What is the Northern Subject Rule? The resilience of a medieval constraint in Tyneside English. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (SELIM)<\/em>, 15, (pp. 91-114).<\/p>\n Cole, M. 2014. Old Northumbrian Verbal Morphosyntax and the (Northern) Subject Rule<\/em>. (286 p.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.<\/p>\n Cole, M. 2019. Towards a nuanced history of early English spelling: Old Northumbrian witnesses and northern orthography. In Anita Auer, Denis Renevey, Camille Marshall & Tino Oudesluijs (Eds.),\u00a0Revisiting the Medieval North of England: Interdisciplinary Approaches<\/i>\u00a0(pp. 243-278). University of Wales Press.<\/p>\n Cole, M. 2016. Identifying the Author(s) of the Lindisfarne Gloss: Linguistic Variation as a Diagnostic for Determining Authorship. In Julia Fern\u00e1ndez Cuesta & S.M. Pons-Sanz (Eds.), The Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels: Language, Author and Context<\/em> Mouton de Gruyter.<\/p>\n Cole, M. 2015. The Periphrastic Subjunctive in the Old English Multiple Glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels. In Philip Shaw et al. (Eds.), From Clerks to Corpora: Essays on the English Language Yesterday and Today – Essays in honour of Nils-Lennart Johannesson<\/em> (pp. 71-86). University of Stockholm.<\/p>\nPUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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