The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics is thrilled to announce that Professor Aditi Lahiri has been awarded a prestigious Synergy Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This comes in addition to her three Advanced Investigator Grants, already unprecedented at Oxford, the latest of which, Pertinacity, is ongoing until 2027.
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:
2.15pm — Welcome and reminiscences
2.30pm — Professor Daniel Kölligan (University of Würzburg), “On the development of future tenses”
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 proven record of research. Fellowships are tenable for three years on a full-time basis. Further details about the scheme are available on the Leverhulme Trust website.
Professor Martin Maiden (PI) and Dr Chiara Cappellaro (CI) have been awarded a major AHRC Research Grant for their project Morphomes. A Psycholinguistic Investigation.
The concept of ‘morphome’, developed by Aronoff in the 1990s (not to be confused with ‘morpheme’!), refers to abstract patterns of distribution of forms in morphology which cannot be explained, synchronically, either through phonological or functional conditioning.
This is a popular article (written in Indonesian and published in The Conversation) that describes two pieces of evidence for the genetic relationship of Enggano as an Austronesian language.
We are thrilled to share the news that our colleagues Asifa Majid, Miriam Meyerhoff, and Philomen Probert have been elected as Fellows of the British Academy. This award is one of the highest honours given to UK-based scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
Frances will be presenting her paper “Mutation in Welsh: Empty categories as a last resort” at the 29th International LFG Conference, which is being held at the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra in August 2024.
In a textbook example of grammaticalisation, stressed pronouns may become unstressed or clitic pronouns over time, and may further weaken into affixes or be lost altogether. The loss of specific clitic pronoun forms leads to situations in which clitic pronoun paradigms are defective: clitic forms are available for some slots in the paradigm but not others.
In ‘Constituents, arrays, and trees: two (more) models of grammatical description’, recently published in Folia Linguistica, Diego argues that while early Generative Grammar was founded on the concept of Immediate Constituents, around the mid-80’s the foundations of the field shifted in ways that took it away from Immediate Constituents and closer to the mathematical concept of an array, while the continued use of the same terminology and symbols has obscured the shift and got us talking at cross purposes.