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.
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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
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.