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
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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!
Linguistics students Lara Clarke and Napsugar Tornyi have shared the prize for Best Practical Portfolio in the Final Honour School of Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics, together with Psychology and Philosophy students Anisa Lloyd and Jake Reid.
Professor Colin Phillips has been appointed Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oxford. He will take up this post on 1 January 2024. He will also be a Professorial Fellow at Somerville College.
Tune in to hear Louise Mycock and Somerville Modern Languages and Linguistics student Lizzy Abel on a Radio 4 quiz show, pitting three students against three of their tutors. We wish them both luck!
In this article published in Journal of Pragmatics, Sandra Paoli and Hannah Davidson investigate three pragmatic markers of Mauritian Creole based on the verb dir 'say': dizon, koumadir, and savedir.
Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg digitised, curated, and published the late 19th-century Enggano word list (investigated in 1895 by Abs vd Noord) (see Rajeg 2023b). Rajeg, Gede Primahadi Wijaya. (2023).
The Faculty 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 through Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics.
If you enjoyed Scott AnderBois' Astor lectures on A'ingae and switch reference, the opportunity to find out more has arrived: see 'The Forms and Functions of Switch Reference in A’ingae', now published in Languages.
A speaker of Vlaški – a little-known and severely endangered Romance language – has created a prize to help preserve his mother tongue after his involvement in a language project run by the University of Oxford.
The Faculty is delighted to congratulate Anna Paradís and Chenzi Xu on the award of Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships.
Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg published the Holle List in Stokhof (1980) as a digital, searchable and manipulatable UTF-8 plain text (repository) and webpage. This is part of his work on building digital, lexical resources for Enggano.
English and numerous other languages of Europe use a have-perfect of the type 'I have written'.
The retro-digitisation of the Enggano-German (hereafter EnoGer) dictionary (Kähler 1987) has been taking place at Udayana University, Indonesia, in which the Postdoc Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg is also affiliated.
Congratulations to Chen Xie on the award of a travel grant by CIPL (the Comité International Permanent des Linguistes), to attend the 28th Annual Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference. Well done, Chen!
The Faculty is delighted to be part of a new TORCH network on ancient Anatolia.