Dr Heidi Quinn
Position
Lecturer
Qualifications
MA (University of Canterbury)
PhD (University of Canterbury)
Room
Room 206 Locke Building
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364 2008
Internal Phone: 6008
heidi.quinn@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
Undergraduate courses
Postgraduate courses
Graduate Supervision
Senior Supervisor
- Lana Takau. 2010 English-based Tongue with Oceanic Flavour: A Comparison of Pronouns and Agreement Marking in Bislama and Raga. MA Thesis, University of Canterbury.
Associate Supervisor
- Abby Walker. 2008 Phonetic detail and grammaticality judgements. MA Thesis, University of Canterbury.
- Stu Allan. 2008 Passive be damned: The construction that wouldn't be beaten. MA Thesis, University of Canterbury.
Summer Scholarship
Tobin Doidge. 2009/10 "Reindeer in wolves' clothing?" : A syntactic comparison of the Saami languages to the neighbouring Indo-European and Uralic languages.
School Administration
- Pacific Liaison for the School
- Library Liaison for Linguistics
- School Facilities & Equipment Committee
- College of Arts Teaching & Learning Committee
- School Teaching & Learning Committee
Background and Research Interests
I was born in Austria, and I spent four years at the University of Vienna before coming to the University of Canterbury in 1993 to do my postgraduate research here.
I am particularly interested in grammatical variation and change, especially when it involves phenomena at the interface between syntax, morphology, and other modules of the grammar, such as argument structure, phonology, and information structure. While much of my research to date has focused on (New Zealand) English, I am also in the process of putting together a digital corpus of German dialect recordings, as part of a larger project on comparative syntax and morphosyntactic microvariation. My most recent interest is the study of languages indigenous to the Pacific Islands and I am keen to encourage and support research by native speakers of these languages.
To find out more about my current research, please click on the links below:
- Grammatical variation and change in New Zealand English
- Pronouns, case and noun phrase structure
- Comparative syntax
PhD
The distribution of pronoun case forms in English Abstract (PDF 36 KB).
MA
Variation in NZE syntax and morphology: a study of the acceptance and use of grammatical variants among Canterbury and West Coast teenagers. Abstract (PDF 52 KB)
Publications
For a list of Heidi's publications please see her UC Research Profile.
Survey questionnaires (PDF 184 KB).
Subject index (PDF 188 KB).
Name index (PDF 160 KB).