James Morley Email & Phone Number

Assistant to the Housing and Events teams helping to deliver research programmes at the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences, under the University of Cambridge. This is a 9-month fixed contract. I am responsible for managing large databases of information about visitors to the Institute, acting as a liaison between visitors and members of the Housing and Events teams, and providing ad hoc administrative support with a range of processes involved in the preparation of the Institute's research programmes.

I collaborated with Professor Bert Vaux on a project investigating the conditions on flapping in American English phonology, resulting in an co-authored manuscript.

In my second year on JoULAB's Editorial Committee, this time as JoULAB's Associate Editor for academic affairs, I was primarily responsible for liaising with authors regarding their submissions and providing updates as and when we get them from our reviewers; and also in charge of managing submissions as they come in, anonymising them and ultimately preparing them to be distributed to our reviewers by the Head of the Board of Reviewers, to whom I report. I'll also be contributing to the overhaul of our correspondence, and to creating a new guide for prospective authors in the coming months.

As the Secretary of the Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (JoULAB), I serve on JoULAB's Editorial Committee, with responsibility for overseeing JoULAB's publicity; this includes our social media correspondence, and day-to-day correspondence with authors and reviewers. I have also helped with administrative tasks, such as taking meeting minutes, contributing to the publication of the organisation's first issue at the end of May 2021.

In the summer after my second year, I provided research assistance to Professor Ioanna Sitaridou in a research project she is conducting jointly with Dr. Nicolaos Neocleous on the subject of ‘Word order and information structure in Romeyka’. The project is partly (micro-)comparative, relating Romeyka’s information structure to those of its cognate variety, Pontic Greek, and Turkish, to shed light on potential contact effects. Having first conducted independent research to familiarise myself with the relevant literature, I had responsibility for restructuring and rewriting large sections of the paper to ensure conciseness and cogency; I also helped research heuristics for underlying word order, to feature in the paper.

As an Institutional Representative at the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (ULAB), I am responsible for two-way communication: on the one hand, communicating the desires, concerns and queries of my peers at my institution to the ULAB team, helping to better tailor ULAB's services to the needs of undergraduates in linguistics; and on the other hand, communicating news, events and opportunities offered by ULAB to the student-body. This takes place across a range of channels: in-person events organised by myself, email, and social media.

Online

I participated in two online courses at the Eastern Generative Grammar (EGG) Summer School over two weeks in the summer of 2021. The first, 'Person restrictions in syntax: A generative typological approach' taught by Professor Adrian Stegovec, taught me both about the specifics of person restrictions in a cross-linguistic perspective and the ways of capturing relevant typological generalisations with a Minimalist apparatus, as well as the broader challenges and rewards of typological research within the generative framework. The second, 'Upward vs. Downward Agreement' by Dr Anke Himmelreich, provided an overview of contemporary approaches to the operation Agree, as well as a broad empirical overview of agreement phenomena that pose problems for syntactic theory.

Mphil In Theoretical And Applied Linguistics By Thesis, Pass With Minor Corrections

I completed a 30,000 word thesis and subsequent thesis viva, obtaining a Pass with Minor Corrections. Thesis: The Mixed LBE.

Bachelor'S Degree, Linguistics, First Class With Distinction (Ranked 1St In Cohort)

Activities and Societies: Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain; Cambridge University Quiz Society.

A-Level, French, Spanish, History, A*, A*, A*

Activities and Societies: Co-founder and co-editor of 'The Harlington Chronicle' Co-founder of Debate Society Co-organiser of Sixth-Form.