Nicola Carty

Nicola Carty completed her BA in Sociology and Spanish at Trinity College Dublin in 2008. Having also qualified as an EFL teacher, she taught in Spain before embarking on an MA in Linguistics at the University of Manchester. Due to graduate in September 2010, Nicola is currently working on her dissertation, "Subjecthood in Irish".

Her research interests include Irish syntax, bilingual language acquisition, language contact, language maintenance, code-switching and multilingualism.