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Staff Profile

Dr Adam Mearns

Senior Lecturer in the History of the English Language

  • Email: adam.mearns@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics
    Percy Building
    缅北禁地
    缅北禁地
    NE1 7RU
    United Kingdom
Background

Office

  • Percy Building, Room 3.12

Consultation & Feedback Hours

  • Consultation and feedback hours are posted on the SELLL School website, here.

Qualifications

  • BA English Language (1997), MA Anglo-Saxon Studies (1999), PhD (2003) - 缅北禁地
Teaching

Semester 1, 2024-2025

  • SEL1034 - Beginnings [Undergraduate]
  • SEL2219 - Monsters, Misery & Miracles: Heroic Life in Old English Poetry [Undergraduate; Module Leader]
  • SEL3441 - Medieval and Early Modern Meaning: English Historical Semantics [Undergraduate; Module Leader]
  • SEL8700 - English Historical Semantics [Postgraduate; Module Leader]

Semester 2, 2024-2025

  • SEL2212 - Early English: Texts, Patterns and Varieties [Undergraduate]
  • SEL8361 - The Social History of English [Postgraduate]
Research

Research Interests

  • The history of the English language (especially the lexicon / lexical semantics in Old English and Middle English, from a cognitive semantic perspective)
  • Old English language and literature
  • Language variation and change in the North East of England, especially in relation to the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (DECTE; website )
  • Corpus linguistic methods and corpus construction


Publications

  • Articles

    • Buchstaller I, Mearns AJ, Auer A, Krause-Lerche A. . English World-Wide 2022, 43(3), 297-329.
    • Mearns AJ. . English Language and Linguistics 2015, 19(2), 213-226.

  • Book Chapters

    • Levon E, Buchstaller I, Mearns AJ. . In: Beaman, KV; Buchstaller, I; Fox, S; Walker, JA, ed. Advancing Socio-grammatical Variation and Change: In Honour of Jenny Cheshire. New York: Routledge, 2020, pp.32-54.
    • Buchstaller I, Mearns AJ. . In: Braber,N;Jansen,S, ed. Sociolinguistics in England. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp.215-241.
    • Mearns AJ, Corrigan KP, Buchstaller I. . In: Corrigan, KP; Mearns, AJ, ed. Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora - Volume 3: Databases for Public Engagement. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp.177-120.
    • Corrigan KP, Mearns AJ. . In: Corrigan, KP; Mearns, AJ, ed. Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora - Volume 3: Databases for Public Engagement. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp.1-21.
    • Mearns AJ. . In: Hickey, R, ed. Researching Northern English. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins, 2015, pp.161-181.
    • Beal JC, Corrigan KP, Mearns AJ, Moisl HL. . In: Durand, J; Gut, U; Kristoffersen, G, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Corpus Phonology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp.517-533.
    • Corrigan KP, Mearns AJ, Moisl HL. . In: Szmrecsanyi, B; Walchli, B, ed. Aggregating Dialectology, Typology, and Register Analysis: Linguistic Variation in Text and Speech. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter, 2014, pp.113-149.

  • Edited Book

    • Corrigan KP, Mearns AJ, ed. . Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

  • Online Publication

    • Corrigan KP, Buchstaller I, Mearns AJ, Moisl HL. The Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English. 2012.