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...

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

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!