Emmaline Rice obtained a BA in English Language & Lingusitics from Cardiff University in 2017, and completed her MA in Language Communication and Research at Cardiff University in September 2019. Her Master's dissertation, supervised by Dr. Lise Fontaine, took a typological approach to English and French motion verbs and how they encode Path (in the cognitive framework of Leonard Talmy (2000)).
She began conducting research for her PhD on causative and anti-causative constructions in English, French, and Dutch, which contributes to the Language Productivity at Work project at Ghent University, in December 2019.
Her research areas and interests include: Systemic Functional Linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics; Construction Grammar; the syntax-semantics interface; transitivity/ergativity alignment; lexical semantics; comparative linguistics; historical linguistics; and corpus linguistics.
