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. She is currently co-editor of the Australian Journal of Linguistics.^[2]

Burridge is a regular presenter of language segments on ABC Radio. She appeared weekly as a panellist on ABC TV's Can We Help?,^[3][4] and has also appeared on The Einstein Factor.

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.^[6]

• Burridge, Kathryn & Eldon D. Weber (1989). Pennsylvania-German dialect : a localized study within a part of former Waterloo County, Ontario. Waterloo, Ontario: Pennsylvania German Folklore Society of Ontario. ISBN 978-0-920038-09-3
• "Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon" (1991, Oxford University Press) - co-authored with Keith Allan. ISBN 978-0-19-506622-7
• "Diachronic Studies on the Languages of the Anabaptists" (1992, Universittsverlag Brockmeyer) - co-edited with Werner Enninger. ISBN 978-3-8196-0054-8
• "Syntactic Change in Germanic" (1993, John Benjamins).
• "Canada – Australia: Towards a Centenary of Partnership" (1997, Carlton Uni Press) - co-edited with Lois Foster and Gerry Turcotte.
• "English in Australia and New Zealand - An Introduction to its Structure, History and Use" (1998, Oxford University Press) - co-authored with Jean Mulder.
• "Introducing English Grammar" (2000, Edward Arnold) - co-authored with Kersti Börjars.
• "Blooming English: Observations on the roots, cultivation and hybrids of the English Language" (2004, Cambridge University Press; published 2002 by ABC Books).
• "Weeds in the Garden of Words: further observations on the tangled history of the English language" (2005, Cambridge University Press; published 2004 by ABC Books).
• "Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language" (2006, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) - co-authored with Keith Allan.

• Monash University Staff Page
• Kate Burridge at The Conversation