Research
I am a historical sociolinguist. Many of my publications deal with codeswitching between Medieval Latin, Anglo-Norman French and Middle English in the late fourteenth to mid-fifteenth centuries. My recent work is on the sociolinguistic properties of words - my forthcoming book is titled Lexical Sociolinguistics: a Historical Approach.
Publications
2021. Barron, Caroline and Laura Wright (eds.). The London Jubilee Book, 1376-1387: an edition of Trinity College Cambridge, MS O.3.11, folios 133-157. London: London Record Society.
2020. Wright, Laura (ed.). The Multilingual Origins of Standard English. Berlin: de Gruyter.
2020. Wright, Laura. 'Sunnyside: a Sociolinguistic History of British House Names". British Academy/OUP.
2018. Wright, Laura (ed.). Southern English Varieties Then and Now. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
2018. Pahta, Paivi, Janne Skaffari and Laura Wright (eds.). Multilingual Practices in Language History: English and Beyond. Language Contact and Bilingualism 15. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
2011. Schendl, Herbert and Laura Wright, eds. Code-switching in Early English. Berlin: Mouton.
