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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 Faculty is delighted to congratulate Jan Fellerer on his promotion to Full Professor. Congratulations, Jan!
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.
Congratulations to LPP DPhil student Frances Dowle, who is one of six recipients of this year’s CIPL Travel Grant for conference presentation.
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.
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 fou
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-
The Faculty and Somerville College were very proud to welcome Somervillians, linguists, people from adjacent fields, and friends from Oxford and across the world, for Colin Phillips' Inaugural Lecture "Now you say it, now you don't", delivered to a packe
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.
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