Kathryn "Kate" BurridgeFASSAFAHA 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.[1]
Career
Burridge earned her PhD at the University College London in 1983 with a dissertation entitled, Some aspects of syntactic change in Germanic, with particular reference to Dutch.[2]
Burridge is a regular presenter of language segments on ABC Radio. She appeared weekly as a panellist on ABC TV's Can We Help?,[4][5] and has also appeared on The Einstein Factor.
Burridge, Kathryn & Eldon D. Weber (1989). Pennsylvania-German dialect: a localized study within a part of former Waterloo County, Ontario. Waterloo, Ontario: Pennsylvania German Folklore Society of Ontario. ISBN978-0-920038-09-3
"Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon" (1991, Oxford University Press) – co-authored with Keith Allan. ISBN978-0-19-506622-7
"Diachronic Studies on the Languages of the Anabaptists" (1992, Universittsverlag Brockmeyer) – co-edited with Werner Enninger. ISBN978-3-8196-0054-8
"Syntactic Change in Germanic" (1993, John Benjamins).
"Canada – Australia: Towards a Centenary of Partnership" (1997, Carlton Uni Press) – co-edited with Lois Foster and Gerry Turcotte.
"English in Australia and New Zealand – An Introduction to its Structure, History and Use" (1998, Oxford University Press) – co-authored with Jean Mulder.
"Introducing English Grammar" (2000, Edward Arnold) – co-authored with Kersti Börjars.
"Blooming English: Observations on the roots, cultivation and hybrids of the English Language" (2004, Cambridge University Press; published 2002 by ABC Books).
"Weeds in the Garden of Words: further observations on the tangled history of the English language" (2005, Cambridge University Press; published 2004 by ABC Books).
"Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language" (2006, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) – co-authored with Keith Allan.
Book reviews
Year
Review article
Work(s) reviewed
2021
Burridge, Kate (January–February 2021). "Camouflaging the cussword: exploring Australian slang". Australian Book Review. 428: 56–57.
Laugesen, Amanda. Rooted: an Australian history of bad language. NewSouth.