The Faculty of Linguistics is pleased to announce that Professor Martin Maiden has  been awarded a Leverhulme Research Project Grant (2021-2024)    “Vernacular mathematics in the Italian dialects: a history”    Brief summary of the project  By investigati

The Faculty is proud to announce that Professor Andreas Willi’s book Origins of the Greek Verb (Cambridge University Press 2018) is one of the winners of this year’s Goodwin Award of Merit of the Society for Classical Studies.

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 2021.

Congratulations to Dr Emily Lindsay-Smith and Ms Amanda Thomas, just announced as Winner and Runner-Up respectively of the Robins Prize from the Philological Society!

The Simon, Arpi & Marie Simonian Prize for Excellence in Leadership is an annual prize open to both undergraduates and postgraduates at St Edmund Hall.

"Being red vs blushing: The morphosyntax of permanent and transient properties" There is preliminary evidence that predicates expressing permanent properties, like “being intelligent”, and those expressing transient properties, like “being sad”, are syste

Leverhulme International Academic Fellowship Indian English on the move: language contact and change in new urban diasporas Dr Payne will investigate the impact of domestic and international migration on the phonetics, phonology and prosody of Indian Engl

Congratulations to Prof. David Willis who has been awarded funding for a major UK-German (AHRC-DFG) research project to collaborate with Prof.

The Faculty is pleased to announce the 2019-2020 winners of the prizes for the best performances in the MSt and MPhil examinations. The winner of the George Wolf Prize, awarded for the best performance in the MSt, is Wyn Shaw (St Hilda’s).

Congratulations to Professor John Coleman who has been awarded a  Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.

PPL Graduate Alvin Tan wins Linguistics Association of Great Britain Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation in Linguistics prize The Faculty is proud to announce that former Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics student Alvin Tan, who graduated in 2020,

We are delighted to announce that Professor Janet Pierrehumbert has been selected to receive the 2020 Medal for Scientific Achievement from ISCA (the International Speech Communication Association).

We are delighted to announce that Professor Andreas Willi has been elected a Fellow of The British Academy. Professor Willi has been Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology since 2005.

 The Faculty of Linguistics at Oxford University invites Expressions of Interest from researchers who wish to apply to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship scheme 2020 (European Fellowships).

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships   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 Postdoc

The Oxford University VIRTUAL Open Day takes place on Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 July 2020. Due to COVID-19, all events will be online.

Professor David Willis joins us as the Jesus Chair of Celtic The Faculty would like to warmly welcome Professor David Willis who is joining the University as the Jesus Chair of Celtic.

Professor Aditi Lahiri awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours List

The Faculty is delighted that Professor Aditi Lahiri has been awarded a CBE in the New Year 2020 Honours List. The honour is in recognition of her services to the study of Linguistics.

Applications open for AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award in the Linguistics Faculty, in partnership with BT plc:
For further information please see here  

The Faculty of Linguistics congratulates Dr John Lowe for his outstanding success in winning the prestigious ERC Starter Grant 2019: ERC Starter Grant 2019.