Members of the group - Cambridge Teaching and Research Staff
Mari Jones
Mari Jones is Reader in French Linguistics and Language Change and Fellow of Peterhouse. She has published widely on language death, dialectology and language variation and change, including books on Welsh, Breton and the Norman dialects of the Channel Islands (Jèrriais, Guernesiais, Sercquais). Her graduate teaching focuses on language death and revitalisation, language variation and change and dialectology, both within the context of French and other languages. She is currently running an AHRC project on language and social structure in urban France and has major research collaborations with the University of Caen ('Patrimoine Linguistique en Normandie') and with the University of Rennes, where she is a research associate at L'Equipe de Recherche sur la diversité Littéraire et Linguistique du monde Francophone. She is also Visiting Professor in Linguistics at the University of Bamberg and Visiting Fellow at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Geoffrey Khan
Geoffrey Khan has been working on the Neo-Aramaic dialects for the last fifteen years. Aramaic is a Semitic language that is still spoken in numerous vernacular dialects, many of which are now endangered. The Neo-Aramaic dialects that are spoken in northern Iraq, south-eastern Turkey, north-western Iran and the Caucasus, belonging to a sub-group known as North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA), are particularly endangered and it is to this sub-group that he has devoted most of his work. From 2004-2009 he directed an AHRC project on NENA, which aimed to produce a systematic documentation of the NENA dialects. This documentati
