Professor Paul Rowlett is a specialist in French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 linguistics and head of the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences at Salford University. He is also the editor of the Philological Society

Philological Society

The Philological Society, or London Philological Society, is the oldest learned society in Great Britain dedicated to the study of language. The society was established in 1842 to "investigate and promote the study and knowledge of the structure, the affinities, and the history of languages"...

's peer-reviewed linguistics journal Transactions of the Philological Society

Transactions of the Philological Society

Transactions of the Philological Society is a linguistics journal published three times a year by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Philological Society. It has appeared since 1854, making it the oldest scholarly linguistics journal...

and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of French Language Studies

Journal of French Language Studies

The Journal of French Language Studies is a peer-reviewed linguistic journal dedicated to the study of the French language. Founded in 1991, it is published three times a year by Cambridge University Press. From 2004, one issue a year has been devoted to a particular theme.-External links:* at...

. He is the author of three books: The Syntax of French (2007), The French Language Today: A Linguistic Introduction (2000) and Sentential Negation in French (1998).