Permanent lectureship in English sociolinguistics

The department is advertising for a Lecturer (=tenure track Assistant Professor in other systems) in English Sociolinguistics.  The deadline for applications is 15 September.
Details here.

Bermúdez-Otero at LSRL

Colleague Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero has been announced as an invited speaker at the 39th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Linguistics, to take place at the University of Arizona, March 26-29, 2009.  More details on the conference below the fold (via Linguist List).

Matras gives invited UNESCO lecture

Colleague Yaron Matras was one of the invited speakers at a recent UNESCO-sponsored workshop on “Multilingual terminology and structured content.”  Details here.

AHRC Research leave success

Public record perusal reveals that our department has been awarded an unprecedented *three* awards under the AHRC’s research leave scheme. These prestigious awards afford the holder a semester’s worth sabbatical at the AHRC’s expense.  Congratulations to colleagues Maciej Baranowski, Eva Schultze-Berndt, and Yaron Matras!

Vincent at Oxford Workshop on Romance Verb Morphology

Colleague Nigel Vincent will present a paper entitled “Non-Finite Forms and the Paradigm in Latin and (Italo-)Romance” at the First Oxford Workshop on Romance Verb Morphology on Thursday, 28 August. Details on the rest of the workshop (via Linguist List) below the fold.

Harris awarded honorary degree at Exeter

Former vice-chancellor and Manchester linguist Professor Sir Martin Harris has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Exeter.  Read about it here.

Morphology and Language History

Recent postdoc Beth Evans‘ co-edited book Morphology and Language History has just been released.  The book announcement (via Linguist List) can be found below the fold.

BA Grants to Yáñez-Bouza

Colleague Nuria Yáñez-Bouza has recently received word on the success of two BA grant applications.  First is a Small Research Grant for her 2-year project (July 2008-July 2010), entitled “ECEG-database: A bibliographic resource for the study of eighteenth-century English grammars” (with colleague Maria Esther Rodriguez Gil, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria).  The second is an Overseas Conference Grant to take part in the ICEHL (International Conference of English Historical Linguistics(Munich, August 2008).  Well done, Nuria!

Baranowski’s book arrives!

Colleague Maciej Baranowski’s book , ” Phonological Variation and Change in the Dialect of Charleston, South Carolina”, is now available in the library. There’s only one copy, but for those of you who can’t wait to see what’s inside, Duke University Press have put out a teaser with the table of contents and a foreword by William Labov.  Check it out here.

13th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology

German department colleague Guido Seiler is co-organizer of the 13th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, taking place 4-8 August in Leeds.  Invited speakers include David Britain, William Labov, Anthony Lodge, and Sali Tagliamonte.  Check out all the details here.