Professor Mari Jones

My main research interests are in language variation and change and in dialectology with a specific focus on language contact, language death and language revitalization. It has involved languages such as Welsh, Breton and – currently - the Norman dialects of the Channel Islands and the Norman mainland. I am a founder of the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group and the Cambridge Conferences in Language Endangerment and am a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and of the International Centre for Language Revitalisation. I was awarded the 2016 Vice-Chancellor's Impact Award for the School of Arts and Humanities for my work in support of the revitalization of the Norman of the Channel Islands.