What is the King’s Linguistics Network (KLN)?

The King’s Linguistics Network (KLN) is a cross-faculty network dedicated to language-related research from a linguistic perspective at King’s College London. The network brings together researchers working on linguistics from a wide range of theoretical, empirical, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Linguistics-related research at King’s spans multiple faculties and disciplines, and KLN provides a shared forum for intellectual exchange, collaboration, and visibility for this work across the university. The network organises informal meetings, seminars, thematic discussions, conferences, and occasional training events.

Our interests

KLN supports research and discussion across a broad range of linguistics subfields and approaches, including:

• Theoretical linguistics, including morphology, syntax, semantics, and phonology
• Historical and diachronic linguistics
• Language variation and typology
• Corpus linguistics and quantitative linguistics
• Computational linguistics and Natural Language Processing
• Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics
• Sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics
• Pragmatics and discourse analysis
• Applied linguistics
• Second language acquisition