Friday 16 May 3-4pm, Room 2 Taylor Institute, St Giles All welcome. No need to book. A transcript will be available to follow along. “It’s good to talk.” “It’s OK not to be OK.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Comparative Philology Seminar at Oxford, an afternoon celebration will take place on Tuesday 3rd December 2024 in the Sultan Nazrin Shah Auditorium at Worcester College, Oxford OX1 2HB.   Programme:   2.

The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics at the University of Oxford invites expressions of interest from postdoctoral and completing graduate scholars who wish to apply for the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme for entry in 2024-

We look forward to hearing Will Thurlwell at the Comparative Philology Graduate Seminar in week 7, on Remnant case forms and patterns of syncretism in Early West Germanic 2.15 p.m. on Tuesday, 4 June at the Centre for Linguistics and Philology, room 207.

Will Thurlwell will be speaking to the Historical Linguistics Seminar on 29 May, on Case reanalysis after mit in Old High German and Old Saxon. Lecture Theatre, Centre for Linguistics and Philology, Walton Street, 4.30-6 p.m.

We look forward to hearing Sebastian Kenny at the Comparative Philology Graduate Seminar in week 6, on Language contact in Ezekiel’s Exagoge: the case for pattern replication 2.15 p.m.

Adriana Molina-Muñoz will be speaking to the Historical Syntax Seminar on 15 May, on Reduplicated relative pronouns in Sanskrit. Room 207, Centre for Linguistics and Philology, Walton Street, 4.30-6 p.m.

We look forward to hearing Atticus Mawby at the Comparative Philology Graduate Seminar in week 4, on Old Novgorodian within Slavonic: prehistoric sound change and phylogenetics. 2.15 p.m.

The Faculty is pleased to welcome Elisabeth Norcliffe (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford) as our speaker for the General Linguistics Seminar on 13 May.

We look forward to hearing Dillon Kelly at the Comparative Philology Graduate Seminar in week 3, on Semantic interfaces in the riddles of the Rigveda. 2.15 p.m. on Tuesday, 7 May at the Centre for Linguistics and Philology, room 207.

The Faculty is pleased to welcome Jack Duff (Saarland University) as our speaker for the General Linguistics Seminar on Monday 6 May (5:15 p.m., Taylorian Institute, room 2).

Marc Olivier will be speaking to the Historical Syntax Seminar on 1 May, on Stressed proclitics in Middle French? Evidence that language
change is driven by structural simplification. Wednesday 1 May, 4.30-6 p.m.

The Faculty is pleased to welcome Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) as our speaker for the General Linguistics Seminar on Monday 29 April (5:15 p.m., Taylorian Institute, room 2).

The Faculty is pleased to welcome Catherine Lai (University of Edinburgh) as our speaker for the General Linguistics Seminar on Monday 22 April (2:15 p.m., Taylorian Institute, room 2).

This workshop is a hands-on experience that requires participants to get involved in annotating small samples of ancient Greek text.

The Philological Society will meet at St Catherine's College, Oxford and on line, on 16 March to hear Yvonne Treis (LLACAN, CNRS Paris) on Shared lexicalisation patterns in the Ethiopian linguistic area. The talk will begin at 4:15 p.m.

Ancient Anatolia Network A new Phrygian inscription from Gordion (G-12) and the sociolinguistic situation in Mysia in the early Hellenistic period Speaker: Rostyslav Oreshko (CNRS) Thursday 7 March 2024, 5pm Online and In-person event | Seminar Room, Radc

On Tuesday 5th March, Dr Joachim Matzinger (Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien), one of the leading specialists on Albanian historical linguistics, will give a guest lecture on “Gyon Buzuku and the beginnings of Albanian writing” at the Comparative Philolo

We look forward to welcoming Dr Luisa Martí (Queen Mary University of London) to the last General Linguistics Seminar of this term, for her talk “Possible and impossible determiners”. 4 March, 5:15 p.m. in the Taylorian Institute, room 2. All are welcome.