The FITS team: (left to right) Benjamin Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Warren Maguire,
Vasilis Karaiskos, Bettelou Los & Rhona Alcorn (missing: Daisy Smith)
| Team-member | Role | Research Interests | Project work |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Bettelou Los | Principal Investigator | Discourse, information structure and syntax in the history of English | Team coordinator; project promotion and dissemination |
| Dr Rhona Alcorn | Co-Investigator | Scots and English historical orthography, phonology and dialectology; the relationship between written and spoken language; digital humanities | Project initiator; preparation of grant application and related documentation; co-manager; liaison with project consultants. |
| Dr Warren Maguire | Co-Investigator | ||
| Dr Joanna Kopaczyk | Research Assistant | Older Scots, historical corpus linguistics, formulaic language | Coding and analysing spellings and sounds of Older Scots morphemes. Identifying individual changes from the source languages. Methodology and tool design. Dissemination. |
| Dr Benjamin Molineaux | Research Assistant | Phonological change, the phonology/morphology interface, stress patterns and perception | Coding and analysing spellings and sounds of Older Scots morphemes. Identifying individual changes from the source languages. Methodology and tool design. Dissemination. |
| Vasilis Karaiskos | Programmer | Digital Humanities, data visualisation, data annotation | Project technician: design and implementation of database, front-end forms and digital outputs. |
| Daisy Smith | Doctoral Candidate | Inflectional and derivational morphology, the history of English and Scots, the relationship between orthography and phonology | PhD candidate; investigation of the orthographical variation in Older Scots inflectional affixes. |