The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics seeks a part time Lecturer in Welsh Language, based at 41 Wellington Square, Oxford Grade 6: £32,332-38,205 (pro rated) The Faculty of Linguistics, Phonetics and Phonology is looking to appoint a part ti
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The Faculty is delighted that Ziwen Wang has been awarded a British Academy International Fellowship to work on the genus alternans in Romance languages - an inflectional pattern whereby nouns select masculine agreement in the singular and feminine agreem
In this paper, now published open access in the Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, Joshua Booth considers the relative chronologies and interactions of two Middle High German sound changes: the lengthening of all short vowels in stressed open sy
We're thrilled that Michele Bianconi has been appointed to the Review Board of Journal of Indo-European Studies. Congratulations, Michele, and all the best in this role!
We were delighted to welcome ancient Greek dialectologists to a rather rainy Oxford for Perceptions and Social Uses of the Ancient Greek Dialects on 21-22 September 2023.
Those who were at LingO 2023 heard that Diego Krivochen has been having fun with graph theory - and might even have heard a rumour that he has been developing his own syntactic framework.
A Luwian inscription of the late tenth or early ninth century BCE (pictured here) ends - in typical Luwian style - with a threat against anyone who damages the stone. "May Halabean Tarhunzas not grant ARA PATA to destroy!
A big thank you to all the organisers, presenters, panellists, keynote speaker, and audience members who helped to make Friday's LingO 2023: Exploring the Diversity of Linguistic Research such an enjoyable and informative event.
Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg's paper 'Penonjolan peran semantis dan konstruksi gramatikal pasangan verba -i dan -kan: Kajian Gramatika Konstruksional berbasis korpus atas menawari/menawarkan' has been published open access in Linguistik Indonesia.
Wolfgang de Melo has contributed "The Egadi Rostra, a linguistic analysis" (the Egadi rostra are bronze rams from ancient warships, with inscriptions, found since 2004 in the sea near Sicily), "Morphology and syntax in early Latin", and - together with Gi
In this paper, now published open access in Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Chen Xie approaches a long-standing challenge in Mandarin syntax (the Mandarin bǎ-construction) from a new angle, by providing a detailed comparison with a partially similar co
Sarah Ogilvie's The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary, published by Chatto & Windus, draws on new source material - due to an exciting chance find - to tell previously untold stories of the people whose effort
The Faculty is delighted to congratulate our Head of Administration and Finance, Dan Holloway, for becoming the fourth-time Creative Thinking World Champion.
Congratulations to Michele Bianconi, who has been awarded the 2023 Conington Prize in Classical Literature, Textual Criticism and Philology, for his DPhil thesis The Linguistic Relationships between Greek and the Anatolian Languages.
Warm congratulations to Marc Olivier on the award of a John Fell Fund to support his project on the effects of syntactic operations on cognition.
Warm congratulations to Johannes Keil on winning the George Humphrey Prize for the best overall performance in Psychology papers in the Final Honour School of Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics. Very well done, Johannes!
Linguistics students Lara Clarke and Napsugar Tornyi have shared the prize for Best Practical Portfolio in the Final Honour School of Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics, together with Psychology and Philosophy students Anisa Lloyd and Jake Reid.
Professor Colin Phillips has been appointed Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oxford. He will take up this post on 1 January 2024. He will also be a Professorial Fellow at Somerville College.
Tune in to hear Louise Mycock and Somerville Modern Languages and Linguistics student Lizzy Abel on a Radio 4 quiz show, pitting three students against three of their tutors. We wish them both luck!
In this article published in Journal of Pragmatics, Sandra Paoli and Hannah Davidson investigate three pragmatic markers of Mauritian Creole based on the verb dir 'say': dizon, koumadir, and savedir.