Kate Burridge Explained

Kathryn "Kate" Burridge 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's work has mainly focused on Pennsylvania Dutch-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.^[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?,^[3] ^[4] and has also appeared on The Einstein Factor.

She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1998^[5] and Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2020.^[6]

Selected works

Monographs

Book: Burridge, Kathryn . Eldon D. Weber . amp . Pennsylvania-German dialect : a localized study within a part of former Waterloo County, Ontario . Waterloo, Ontario . Pennsylvania German Folklore Society of Ontario . 1989.
"Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon" (1991, Oxford University Press) - co-authored with Keith Allan.
"Diachronic Studies on the Languages of the Anabaptists" (1992, Universittsverlag Brockmeyer) - co-edited with Werner Enninger.
"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	class='unsortable'	Review article	class='unsortable'	Work(s) reviewed
2021	Burridge, Kate . January–February 2021 . Camouflaging the cussword : exploring Australian slang . Australian Book Review . 428 . 56–57.	Book: Laugesen, Amanda . Rooted : an Australian history of bad language . NewSouth.

References

Web site: Kate Burridge – Monash University . 2024-05-30 . Monash Lens . en-US.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=0726-8602&linktype=5 Taylor & Francis Journals: Welcome
http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/people/Transcripts/s1091720.htm Kate Burridge:
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/canwehelp/about/meet-team.htm ABCTV – Can We Help? – Meet the Team
Web site: Fellow Profile: Kate Burridge . 2024-04-30 . Australian Academy of the Humanities . en-AU.
Web site: 2020-11-10. 38 Leading Social Scientists elected as Academy Fellows. 2020-12-05. Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. en-AU.