Professor Jack Grieve PhD

Professor Jack Grieve

Department of Linguistics and Communication
Professor of Corpus Linguistics

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 415 8805
Email
j.grieve@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
Frankland Building
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

My research focuses on understanding language variation and change through the quantitative analysis of large corpora of natural language data.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University (2009)
  • MA in Linguistics, Simon Fraser University (2005)
  • BA in Linguistics, Simon Fraser University (2002)

Biography

I am from Vancouver and studied at Simon Fraser University and Northern Arizona University. Before moving to the University 麻豆精选 in 2017, I held a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Leuven and a Lecturership in Forensic Linguistics at Aston University.

Teaching

I have taught modules on corpus linguistics, English grammar, forensic linguistics, and sociolinguistics.

Postgraduate supervision

I have supervised PhD students working on a range of topics, including corpus linguistics, dialectology, forensic linguistics, and sociolinguistics. I welcome applications from students working in any of these areas.

Find out more - our PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics  page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.

Research

My main research interests are in corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, and dialectology. I am especially interested in grammatical and lexical variation in the English language across time, space and communicative context. I also develop methods for quantitative linguistic analysis and authorship attribution.

Other activities

I consult on casework as a forensic linguist and I am on the editorial boards of the open access journal Frontiers in Digital Humanities and the open access book series Language Variation published by Language Science Press.

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Grieve, J & Woodfield, H 2023, . Elements in Forensic Linguistics, Cambridge University Press.

Article

Grieve, J, Bartl, S, Fuoli, M, Grafmiller, J, Huang, W, Napolitano Jawerbaum, A, Murakami, A, Perlman, M, Roemling, D & Winter, B 2025, '', Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 7, 1472411.

Baissa, B, Fuoli, M & Grieve, J 2025, '', Linguistics Vanguard.

Roemling, D & Grieve, J 2024, '' CREST Security Review, vol. 18, pp. 18-19. <>

Huang, H, Grieve, J, Jiao, L & Cai, Z 2024, '', Linguistics, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 937-976.

Baissa, B, Fuoli, M & Grieve, J 2024, '', Discourse and Communication, pp. 1-23.

Morin, C & Grieve, J 2024, '', PLoS ONE, vol. 19, no. 1, e0295799.

Ilbury, C, Grieve, J & Hall, D 2024, '', Journal of Sociolinguistics.

Woodin, G, Winter, B, Littlemore, J, Perlman, M & Grieve, J 2023, '', Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.

Grieve, J 2023, '', Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, vol. 0, no. 0.

Grieve, J 2022, '', Linguistics Vanguard, vol. 0, no. 0, 9.

Chiang, E, Nguyen, D, Towler, A, Hass, M & Grieve, J 2021, '', International Journal of Speech Language and the Law, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 129-161.

Conference article

Huang, W & Grieve, J 2024, '', CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3740, pp. 2645-2652. <>

Preprint

Huang, W, Murakami, A & Grieve, J 2024 '' arXiv.

Grieve, J, Bartl, S, Fuoli, M, Grafmiller, J, Huang, W, Jawerbaum, A, Murakami, A, Perlman, M, Roemling, D & Winter, B 2024 '' arXiv.