Local Committee

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  Riley Crouch, Local Chair

  University of Edinburgh

  Riley (they/she) is a third year linguistics student at the University of Edinburgh. They're primarily interested in pragmatics and discourse analysis, particularly looking at language about or used by trans people. Outside of linguistics, you'll find her trying to make a new vegan recipe or drawing fun lines on their face.
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  Caitlin Wilson, Local Vice Chair

  Caitlin (she/her) is a fourth year undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh. She is focused on theoretical syntax and language preservation. When she isn’t drawing syntax trees, she helps with fieldwork on the University’s Nilotic Languages research team. Passions outside of Linguistics include terrible y/a fiction, being a bad runner, and Oxford commas.
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  Elif Yıldız, Local Treasurer

  Elif (she/her) is a third year linguistics undergraduate student at the University of Edinburgh. Her areas of interest are typology, syntactic theory and cross-linguistic variation. She is the editor of the Hot off the Press section, which brings current affairs and linguistics together. When not reading the news, she can be found trying to increase her non(yet!)existent spicy food tolerance.
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  Darja Prudcenko, Local Secretary

  University of Edinburgh

  Darja is a second-year Psychology and Linguistics student at the University of Edinburgh. When it comes to linguistics, she is particularly interested in Slavic languages, phonology, language typology, and historical linguistics. Outside of her studies, she enjoys horse riding, pole dancing, and analyzing Russian Silver Age poetry.
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  Cliodhna Hughes

  Cliodhna (she/her) is a third-year linguistics student at the University of Edinburgh, particularly interested in language evolution, phonetics and first language acquisition. She enjoys doing linguistics outreach, attending student conferences, and getting involved in just about anything linguistics-related! Outside of linguistics, her hobbies include glass fusing, playing underwater hockey and making unbrielievable cheese puns.
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  Olivia Szczerbakiewicz

  Olivia is the Columnist of the Words, Words, Words section of U-Lingua. She is a fourth-year English Language and Literature student at the University of Edinburgh. She is particulatly keen on applications of cognitive linguistics and stylistics to literary texts, as well as the intricacies and differences in translation. In her free time, she can be found conducting odd research for and typing away at her novel about late Soviet era Poland.
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  Michael Goessler

  Michael is a third-year linguistics student at the University of Edinburgh and currently president of Edinburgh’s Linguistics Society. Originally from Styria, Austria, he entered the world of linguistics as a conlanger, knowing from age 15 he wanted to make language science his degree. Besides the joys of morphosyntax and pretending to believe in Universal Grammar, he spends most of his time playing the trumpet and having writer’s blocks or trying to find more stuff to do while quietly (and not so quietly) complaining about how busy he is.

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