Kate Burridge
Kathryn "Kate" Burridge, FAHA, is a prominent Australian linguist specialising in the Germanic languages. Burridge currently occupies the Chair of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University.
Burridge's work has mainly focused on Pennsylvania German-speaking communities in Canada, grammatical change in Germanic languages, the nature of euphemism and dysphemism, linguistic taboo, and on English grammatical structure in general. She is currently co-editor of the Australian Journal of Linguistics.
Burridge is a regular presenter of language segments on ABC Radio. She appeared weekly as a panellist on ABC TV's Can We Help?, and has also appeared on The Einstein Factor.Publications
- "A Localized Study of Pennsylvania German Dialect in Waterloo County, Ontario".
- "Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon" - co-authored with Keith Allan.
- "Diachronic Studies on the Languages of the Anabaptists" - co-edited with Werner Enninger.
- "Syntactic Change in Germanic".
- "Canada – Australia: Towards a Centenary of Partnership" - co-edited with Lois Foster and Gerry Turcotte.
- "English in Australia and New Zealand - An Introduction to its Structure, History and Use" - co-authored with Jean Mulder.
- "Introducing English Grammar" - co-authored with Kersti Brjars.
- "Blooming English: Observations on the roots, cultivation and hybrids of the English Language".
- "Weeds in the Garden of Words: further observations on the tangled history of the English language".
- "Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language" - co-authored with Keith Allan.
