Suzanne Wagner
- (She/Her)
- wagnersu@msu.edu
- Wells B-463
- Associate Professor
- Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures
Biography
Suzanne Evans Wagner conducts research on the social motivations of language variation and language change. She is primarily interested in post-adolescent sociolinguistic modification at all levels of the grammar, and in how change over the individual lifespan interacts with language change at the community level. Some of her work has investigated ongoing sound change in the Lansing, Michigan area. More recently, she has been collaborating with her Linguistics colleague and MSU Sociolinguistics Lab co-director Dr. Betsy Sneller on the MI Diaries project, investigating language change across the entire state. Dr. Wagner’s work has been published in Language Variation and Change, Language in Society, American Speech and Language and Linguistics Compass, among other venues. With Isabelle Buchstaller, she is series editor of Routledge Studies in Language Change, and a co-editor of Panel Studies of Variation and Change.
Works
- Wagner, Suzanne Evans, Betsy Sneller and Jack Rechsteiner. 2025. Sociolinguistic research projects as brands. Linguistics Vanguard.
- Sneller, Betsy, Suzanne Evans Wagner, and Yongqing Ye. 2022. MI Diaries: Practical and ethical challenges. Linguistics Vanguard 8(3): 307-319
- Sankoff, Gillian and Suzanne Evans Wagner. 2020. The long tail of language change: A trend and panel study of Québecois French futures. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 65(2): 246-275.
- Wagner, Suzanne Evans and Isabelle Buchstaller (eds.) 2018. Panel Studies of Variation and Change. Routledge Studies in Language Change. Routledge Ltd.
College of Arts & Letters News
- MSU Researcher Awarded $650K NSF Grant to Expand Educational Opportunities Through Linguistics ProjectCollege of Arts & Letters
August 29, 2024Michigan State University Researcher and Assistant Professor of Linguistics Betsy Sneller was awarded $646,385 from the U.S. National Science Foundation, or NSF, to expand educational opportunities for students as part of the MI Diaries linguistics research project. Sneller and […] Read Now →
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- NEH Grant to Develop Open-Source Code for Self-Recording Mobile AppCollege of Arts & Letters
February 14, 2022College of Arts & Letters’ Assistant Professor of Linguistics Betsy Sneller was awarded a $99,908 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (DHAG) program for her project, “Building and Disseminating an App for […] Read Now →
- MI Diaries Receives NSF Grant to Support Its ExpansionCollege of Arts & Letters
October 6, 2021The MI Diaries project, run by MSU’s Sociolinguistics Lab and led by College of Arts & Letters’ Assistant Professor of Linguistics Betsy Sneller and Associate Professor of Linguistics Suzanne Wagner, was awarded a $265,830 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) […] Read Now →
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