DR Christopher Lucas

Biography	I did my undergraduate studies in Arabic at SOAS, and my postgraduate studies in Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Before taking up my current position at SOAS in 2011, I was Research Associate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and then British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at SOAS.
Research Interests	My research focuses on the analysis and description of linguistic variation and change, especially in connection with Arabic and Maltese, though I have also worked on English. The primary empirical domains I have investigated to date include the morphophonolgy of Maltese, the expression of negation and of definiteness, and the historical developments observed cross-linguistically in both of the latter domains. I have also worked extensively on contact-induced grammatical change, as well as Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO) in the Arabic context.

Biography

I did my undergraduate studies in Arabic at SOAS, and my postgraduate studies in Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Before taking up my current position at SOAS in 2011, I was Research Associate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and then British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at SOAS.

Research Interests

My research focuses on the analysis and description of linguistic variation and change, especially in connection with Arabic and Maltese, though I have also worked on English. The primary empirical domains I have investigated to date include the morphophonolgy of Maltese, the expression of negation and of definiteness, and the historical developments observed cross-linguistically in both of the latter domains. I have also worked extensively on contact-induced grammatical change, as well as Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO) in the Arabic context.