Miriam Meyerhoff | |
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Born | 1964 (age 58–59) |
Relatives | Mary Cresswell (mother) Hans Meyerhoff (father) Max Cresswell (step-father) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
Thesis | 'Be i no Gat' : constraints on null subjects in Bislama (1997) |
Doctoral advisor | Gillian Sankoff |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Sociolinguistics |
Institutions | |
Website | All Souls College profile |
Miriam Meyerhoff (born 1964) is a New Zealand sociolinguist. In 2020 she was appointed as a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.
Meyerhoff was born in 1964, [1] the daughter of poet Mary Cresswell and philosopher Hans Meyerhoff . Her father died in a car accident the following year, [2] and her mother married logician Max Cresswell in 1970. [3] The family subsequently moved to New Zealand. [4]
Meyerhoff completed a Master of Arts degree at Victoria University of Wellington, [5] and, in 1997, a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. [6] Her PhD supervisor was Gillian Sankoff.
Meyerhoff has held faculty positions at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Auckland, and Victoria University of Wellington. In 2020, Meyerhoff was appointed a senior research fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford. [7] [8] [9]
Meyerhoff's research examines the sociolinguistic constraints on variation, principally in communities characterised by language or dialect contact. [10] Much of her work since her dissertation has been on Creoles, as their (typical) lack of standardisation leads to variation and change at all levels of linguistic structure.
She is the author of a well-regarded introductory textbook on sociolinguistics (Meyerhoff 2018).
Meyerhoff has spoken to media on linguistic issues, including: whether New Zealand speech is affected by migration patterns and diversity; [11] [12] the use of the word eh in New Zealand English; [13] and the impact of digital technology on communication. [14]
In 2020, Meyerhoff was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. [15]
In 2017, she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. [4]
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