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Burridge completed her undergraduate training in Linguistics and German at the University Of Western Australia . This was followed by three years postgraduate study at the University Of London . Kate completed her PhD in 1983 on syntactic change in medieval Dutch. She also taught at the Polytechnic Of Central London before joining the Department of Linguistics at La Trobe University in 1984 . In 2003 she took up the Chair of Linguistics in the Linguistics Program in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. Burridge work has mainly focused on Pennsylvania German -speaking communites in the United States , grammatical change in Germanic Languages , the nature of Euphemism and Dysphemism , linguistic Taboo , and on English Structure in general. Kate is also a regular presenter of language segments on ABC Radio. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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