Intérêts et spécialisté de recherche :
Variation et changement linguistique dans les langues en contact :
- Translation effects as evidenced in contact-induced language change (English/Spanish, German/Turkish contact)
Contact linguistique et socio-culturel et théorie de la variation et du changement linguistique :
- Reimagining language contact as exolingual interaction (interaction between speakers of different languages): Evidence from interpreter-mediated interaction
Alternances codiques :
- Borrowing vs. single-item codeswitching: Language attribution of lexical items through script choice in Russian-English writing
- Borrowing vs. single-item codeswitching: Evidence for language attribution of lexical items in interpreter-mediated interaction
- Lexical cohesion in multilingual speech
Traduction :
- Pragmatics of court interpreting
Langue et Identité
- The bilingual identity of interpreters
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