English and numerous other languages of Europe use a have-perfect of the type 'I have written'.
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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.
The Faculty is thrilled to announce the appointment of Professor Matt Husband as an Associate Editor of Glossa Psycholinguistics. Congratulations, Matt, and all the best in this role!
A celebration of ten years of the Romanian lectorate in Oxford was held on 17 May at Trinity College.
Staff and students of the Language and Brain Laboratory were pleased to welcome the Vice-Chancellor (Irene Tracey) and the Head of the Humanities Division (Dan Grimley) for a visit on 24 February.
The Faculty was proud to host Dr Scott AnderBois (Brown University) as an Astor Visiting Lecturer from 12 to 17 May.
Diego Krivochen's "Towards a theory of syntactic workspaces: neighbourhoods and distances in a lexicalised grammar" has appeared in The Linguistic Review, and "The Search for Minimal Search: A Graph-Theoretic Approach" in Biolinguistics.
The two authors' collaboration on this subject began with a discussion about a passage of Greek, which took them on a remarkable journey through ancient and medieval texts on Greek enclitics, via accent marks on papyri and in medieval manuscripts.
Have you ever wondered how we arrive at pragmatic interpretations of stories told in pictures, or in a mix of pictures and words? To find out, see Julian J.
Earlier this month, researchers from the Language and Brain Laboratory returned from three weeks of fieldwork in Kolkata, India, where they collected psycholinguistic data from over 400 participants.
The Faculty is proud to congratulate Professor Aditi Lahiri on her appointment as the distinguished Hermann and Klara H.
The Philological Society is pleased to offer a limited number of bursaries, worth £12,000 each, for students embarking on a taught postgraduate programme in the UK in the areas of linguistics or philology, in accordance with the society's mission: "to inv
Congratulations to Holly Kennard on the award of a John Fell Grant, which will fund a researcher to work together with Holly on intonation analysis of a set of Breton recordings. The researcher post will be advertised soon.
Applications are now open for UNIQ+ 2023, the University of Oxford’s flagship graduate access programme.
The Leverhulme Trust awards prestigious three-year fellowships to early career academics each year.
The Faculty is delighted to congratulate Wolfgang de Melo on the award of a three-year Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, beginning in October 2023.
The Arts and Humanities Research Council has renewed its commitment to UK participation in the CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium, with guaranteed participation until at least the end of 2023.