The Faculty is absolutely delighted to announce that Professor Gillian Ramchand will be joining us and Magdalen College as Professor of Syntax and Semantics from 1 January 2025.
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Professor David Willis gave this year's Anna Morpurgo Davies lecture What social media can tell us about dialect variation and change on Friday, 10 May, at the Royal Society and online. From the English constructions "Where's that to?
Congratulations to Dr Liliia Bespala and Dr Charlotte Albury, whose poster “Mitigating Agency for Smoother Weight Loss Advice Interactions: a Conversation and Discourse Analytic Study” has been awarded best poster prize at the Nuffield Department of Prima
Martin Wynne has co-organized a number of events as part of an ongoing collaboration between experts in linguists and Holocaust studies scholars and archivists.
The Oxford Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, in association with the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (OCHJS) and the Institute for Classical Studies (ICS) is offering a free, online semi-intensive course in Phoenician, which wil
Sarah Ogilvie’s The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary, published by Chatto & Windus, has been longlisted for the Women's Prize for Nonfiction 2024 (the announcement can be watched here).
Applications are now open for the University’s 2024 UNIQ+ postgraduate research internships.
In this chapter, now published in David M. Goldstein, Stephanie W. Jamison, and Anthony D.
The Faculty is delighted to announce the new project ‘History of the Istro-Romanian Language’, generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust.
In this chapter just published in Bethwyn Evans , Åshild Næss, and Jozina Vander Klok (eds), Prominence in Austronesian (De Gruyter Mouton 2024), Charlotte Hemmings draws on the work she has been carrying out since 2013 with speakers of Kelabit, a Western
Professor Elinor Payne (PI) and Dr Mary Baltazani (CI) have been awarded a major ESRC Research Grant for their project Mapping Prosodic Convergence in the Eastern Mediterranean, together with Dr Spyros Armostis (CI) of the University of Cyprus.
Wolfgang de Melo's Latin Linguistics: An Introduction (de Gruyter 2024) provides an accessible and serious introduction to Linguistics and its many applications to Latin, aimed at students of Latin. No previous background in Linguistics is needed.
The British Academy International Fellowship scheme has been launched this year at short notice. Please note that the deadline for Expressions of Interest (CV and 1-page proposal outline) is Friday 2 February 2024.
The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics and Magdalen College, Oxford are seeking to appoint an Associate Professor (or Professor) of Syntax and Semantics.
The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics and Kellogg College, Oxford are seeking to appoint an Associate Professor (or Professor) of Phonology and Language Processing.
Dr Victoria Tulivaye Hasheela (University of Namibia) and Dr Charlotte Hemmings (University of Oxford) have won an Africa Oxford (AfOx) Catalyst Grant to collaborate on the documentation and digital preservation of languages in Namibia.
The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics is seeking to appoint a Departmental Lecturer to assume teaching, examining and research responsibilities in Phonetics and Phonology, from December 2023 (and by 8 January 2024 at the latest) until 30 Sep
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships are designed to support scholars at a relatively early stage of their academic careers (defined as having submitted their thesis for viva voce examination no more than four years prior to the closing date), but with a p
In 'Of tortoise necks and dialects: a new edition of the Grammaticus Leidensis', now published open access in Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Niels Schoubben, Jikke Koning, Bob van Velthoven and Philomen Probert offer a new edition and discussion of a short an
Is reading fiction ever a wildly frustrating experience? Does the author go off on uninteresting tangents, or fail to draw threads together, or try to get us to sympathise with someone whose actions we can't condone...