This year’s Toller Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Dr Gillian Fellows-Jensen (University of Copenhagen) under the title ‘Danes and the Danish language in England: an anthroponymical point of view’. The lecture will take place on Monday 3 March 2008 at 6pm in the Samuel Alexander Lecture Theatre. Manchet readers will be interested to know that the lecture is part of a series celebrating the life and work of Thomas Northcote Toller, who in the nineteenth century preceded our much lamented colleague Richard Hogg in the Smith chair. Toller’s preeminent claim to fame lies in his collaboration with Joseph Bosworth on the dictionary of Old English known by their joint names: the mighty Bosworth-Toller. See it here.
Archive for February, 2008
Tollier Memorial Lecture
February 25, 2008Laker on fire!
February 25, 2008Moments after posting the previous entry, Manchet learned that Stephen Laker has just had another article appear in an edited volume with entitled “Advances in Old Frisian Philology.” Laker’s paper is entitled “Palatalization of Velars: A Major Link of Old English and Old Frisian” and the volume website is here.
Laker in Transactions of the Philological Society
February 25, 2008Colleague Stephen Laker, just barely off the proverbial boat from Leiden, has a paper in the most recent issue of Transactions of the Philological Society entitled “The English negative comparative particle.” Get the full text pdf here.
[Thanks for the tip, Kristine!]
Sarah Collie in Tuesday seminar
February 25, 2008As previously reported here, (the newly Doctored) Sarah Collie (University of Edinburgh) will be speaking in the seminar tomorrow on ‘Causes of vowel reduction in English: An argument from word-final consonants‘. As per usual, drinks will follow the talk in the LLC boardroom. Be there!
Tomorrow’s Langwidge Sandwidge
February 25, 2008Tomorrow’s Langwidge Sandwidge features Massimo Sturiale (Ragusa/Catania) speaking on ‘Eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries and language prescriptivism’. Normal time, normal place, with hot and cold drinks and biscuits. See you there!
A new face for Manchet!
February 24, 2008You’ll no doubt notice Manchet’s new look, which we owe entirely to current PhD student Rob Drummond (a web designer-moonlighter), who volunteered to make the site look less generic. In addition to a very snazzy looking site, you’ll notice that we now have a Manchester tart to go with our fine white bread. Thanks, Rob!
More on “Grammatical borrowing in crosslinguistic perspective”
February 22, 2008It has come to Manchet’s attention that in our announcement of the publication of “Grammatical borrowing in crosslinguistic perspective” (edited by colleague Yaron Matras and former postdoc colleague Jeanette Sakel (now a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England in Bristol)), first reported here, we inadvertently overlooked a number of other Manchester affiliated authors. In addition to the contributions by Matras and Sakel and colleagues Eva Schultze-Berndt and Kristine Hildebrandt, the volume also contains papers by PhD students Sirin Tufan and Maryam Shabibi, and by Honorary Research Fellow Wilco van den Heuvel. Well done! [Thanks for the tip, Yaron!]
Second call for Manchester Phonology Meeting
February 20, 2008The second call for this year’s Manchester Phonology Meeting is out, complete with a list of very exciting invited speakers. Details below the fold.
Bermúdez-Otero in Groningen
February 20, 2008On Friday 22 February, colleague Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero is giving an invited talk at the Rijksuniversitet Groningen under the title “Phonology is cyclic; cyclicity is emergent”: read the abstract here. A number of well-known linguists (including Michael Ullman, Ianthi Tsimpli, and Roger Hawkins, among others) will also be there to discuss plans for an international research collaboration proposed by Monika Schmid. Manchet will keep you posted!
PhD training session: Theory construction and theory comparison, part 2
February 16, 2008The details for day two of the PhD training session on 13 March (room LG.10, Coupland 3) on “Theory construction and theory comparison” are out, and available here. The lineup includes:
- 1.00 Theory and explanation (Nigel Vincent)
- Diachronic and synchronic explanation (Bethwyn Evans)
- The role of frequency effects in linguistic theory (Paul Bennett)
- Typology and theory (Andrew Koontz-Garboden)
- 5.00 finish
