Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and Professor of Linguistics, Monash University
Kate Burridge is a prominent Australian linguist and the current Chair of Linguistics at Monash University.
Kate completed her undergraduate training in Linguistics and German at the University of Western Australia. This was followed by three years postgraduate study at the University of London. Kate completed her PhD in 1983 on syntactic change in medieval Dutch.
Amongst other things, Kate is also the author of many books, a regular guest on ABC radio and recently presented a TED talk in Sydney on Euphemisms in English.
Why do people in different countries speak different languages?
Feb 07, 2020 05:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Humans have long been puzzled by the existence of different languages. A long time ago, people took guesses or made up stories to explain this. You might know the tale of the Tower of Babel (have a look at a famous...
A history of sporting lingo: a linguistic 'shirtfronting' for lovers and haters of sports alike
Sep 30, 2018 22:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports
Like sport or hate it, its hard to deny the role that sporting lingo plays in our daily lives. Corporate language everywhere groans with references of people leveling playing fields, getting balls rolling, moving goal...
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