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About
Gabriel Ozon is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Sheffield, school of English who joined in 2013. Previously he has worked at the University of Sussex,Queen Mary University of London and University college London where he completed his PhD.

Currently he teaches BA in English Language and Linguistics and MA in Applied Linguistics over a range of modules: World Englishes, Using Corpora in applied Linguistics, patterns in grammar; varieties of English; Structure of English; English Grammar and discourse; Sociolinguistics and Research practice

Research
He has a keen interest in linguistic variation, interest in favours of application of quantitative (corpus linguistics) as well as, working with issues where theoretical claims can be tested, he also looks into sociolinguistics of grammar. Furthermore, for the past five years he has been working won Cameon Pidgin English (CPE); along with Melanie Green (Sussex) and Miriam Ayafor (Yaoundel), he has also built a corpus of CPE, supported by British Academy/ Leverholme Grant.

Adding to this he has written extensively using data from CPE corpus. His publications include: Current projects are: 'light verb constructions in the contact continuum' and 'code-switching/ Translanguaging in Cameroon Pidgin English'

He is a member of the: British Association for Applied Linguistics Philogical Society Societas Linguistica Europaea South East European Research Centre

Public Engagements
Gabriel Ozon has also been invited to speak at a symposium on Naija (a language which has developed in Nigeria out of Nigerian Pidgin). This event took place in the institute of African Studies,University of Ibadan in June 2019. It was event organised to launch the Nigerian Corpus which was built along side the CPE Corpus, but uses different suite of language software and multidisciplinary methods for the data analysis.

Publications
Gabriel Ozon is a very active linguist online, his name is well renowned for taking part in various surveys as well as publishing journals online. Currently there are 16 publications online which focus on certain grammatical aspects of CPE. He has written for the famous journals 'world Englishes' and 'Journal of language contact'.

Also he has written a chapter on language acquisition and language contact for the book 'handbook of language contact'. Ozon has also contributed to edited volumes on topics such as corpus linguistics in Africa, world Englishes, contact- induced language changes and English in Europe. Some of these publications can be seen online