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Miriam Meyerhoff teaches sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She is interested in aspects of language variation and change and has conducted research on structural change in creole languages in the Pacific (Vanuatu and Hawai'i) and the Caribbean (Bequia). She has also worked on changes taking place in New Zealand English and has investigated the role that variation plays in understanding the social construction of gender. She is the author of Constraints on null subjects in Bislama (Vanuatu) (2000) and co-editor of The handbook of language and gender (2003).
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