Dr. Benjamin Molineaux

Biography

Benjamin Molineaux is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, affiliated with the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics and the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences. His research focuses on historical phonology and morpho-phonology, with a particular interest in stress systems and stress perception. Molineaux's work revolves around the phonological and morphological development of languages such as Mapudungun, Old and Middle English, and Older Scots. He has experience with digital methods for language change, demonstrated through his research on the 400-year textual history of the Mapudungun language, an ancestral language of the Mapuche people in Chile and Argentina. A key aspect of his current work is the Leverhulme Research Project Grant he was awarded for the project “Texts, typology, and language history of the Southern Cone,” which brings together a team of researchers from Chile, Argentina, and Scotland to compile a Comparative Historical Corpus of the Southern Cone. Molineaux is also involved in undergraduate teaching, offering courses on linguistic typology and phonology. He actively supervises PhD students with a focus on phonology and historical linguistics, particularly regarding Scots and New World languages.

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