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.
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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.
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