Kate Burridge

Kathryn "Kate" Burridge FASSA FAHA is a prominent Australian linguist specialising in the Germanic languages.

Burridge currently occupies the Chair of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University.

[1] Burridge's work has mainly focused on Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking communities in Canada, grammatical change in Germanic languages, the nature of euphemism and dysphemism, linguistic taboo, and on English grammatical structure in general.

[2] Burridge is a regular presenter of language segments on ABC Radio.

She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1998[5] and Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2020.