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Laurel Brinton is a professor in the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia. She specializes in English Language with a focus on the history of English. Her specific areas of interest include English historical linguistics, historical pragmatics, grammaticalization, lexicalization, phrasal verbs, composite predicates, corpus linguistics, and aspectual studies. Laurel completed her PhD in English Linguistics Emphasis at the University of California, Berkeley in 1981 and has been working at UBC since then. Current projects involve editing a textbook on English Historical Linguistics and authoring a monograph on the Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English, set to be published by Cambridge University Press. In addition, she has developed and instructs a new UBC course titled 'Challenging Language Myths'.
Offers course-only and thesis routes. Focus areas include philosophy of science, mind, ethics, and Asian philosophy.