Manfred Markus Editor & Author

Manfred Markus is Ordinary Professor Emeritus in English Linguistics and Mediaeval English Literature at the University of Innsbruck. With over a hundred publications on his record, he has compiled several corpora, among these the Innsbruck Corpus of Middle English Prose and the Innsbruck Letter Corpus. He is presently involved in research on spoken features of language, with a particular interest in Late Modern English.
Clive Upton is Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Leeds. He is core academic consultant to the BBC as well as pronunciation consultant to Oxford University Press. Among his collaborative publications are The Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English, Survey of English Dialects: The Dictionary and Grammar, An Atlas of English Dialects, and A Handbook of Varieties of English.
Reinhard Heuberger is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Innsbruck. His research focuses on lexicography, ecolinguistics and dialect studies. Since 2006, he has been the co-director of the Innsbruck project SPEED (Spoken English in Early Dialects).