Inés Fernández-Ordóñez is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the Autonomous University of Madrid and member of the Royal Spanish Academy . She is a specialist in dialectology, both current and historical, of Spanish and is particularly interested in grammatical variation. She directs the Audible Corpus of Rural Spoken Spanish, which she has compiled between 1990 and 2025 with the collaboration of successive generations of students and colleagues. She is also involved in the digital edition of the Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula.
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh is senior lecturer in Celtic linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. He studied Old, Middle and Modern Irish at the University of Galway, before postgraduate research in the historical dialectology of the Gaelic languages at the University of Edinburgh. His current research examines a small corpus of Scottish Gaelic written in the early-nineteenth-century Caribbean.
Andrea Ender is Professor of German Linguistics at the Department of German Language and Literatures (University of Salzburg, Austria). Her research focuses on the interface between sociolinguistics and language acquisition research (i.e., the acquisition of variation), language variation in dialect areas, and questions of language education.
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