Colleague Stephen Laker has a new paper out which is, in his words “a critical review of recent research into Anglo-Saxon–British contacts.” The reference is:
Laker. Stephen. 2008. Changing views about Anglo-Saxons and Britons. In Henk Aertsen & Bart Veldhoen (eds.), Six Papers from the 28th Symposium on Medieval Studies held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on 15 December 2006, 1–38. Leiden: Leiden University Department of English.
A reminder from our faithful seminar organizer, Louise Mycock:
Dear all,A reminder about this week’s Linguistics and English Language seminar. Please note the start time of 4.15pm.Tuesday 29th April***4.15pm-5.15pm***Room A101, Samuel Alexander BuildingIván García Álvarez (University of Salford)“Adjectival associates of Exception Phrases”There will be a drinks reception in the School Boardroom afterwards, followed by dinner.Hope to see you there.Full details of the LEL seminar series are available here: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/lel/seminars/Best wishes,Louise
In the words of David Denison:
Dear Sandwidgistas,
[Today] our own Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero floats
A dinghy to Singapore: Evidence for Chung’s Generalization
This is our penultimate meeting of the year. Usual time and place:S.2.2, Tuesday 1-2pm.
Hope to see you.
bestDavid, Nuria and Phillip
— <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>David DenisonLinguistics and English LanguageUniversity of Manchester | Manchester M13 9PL | U.K.
The advertisement for the permanent position in our department in psycholinguistics has appeared on Linguist List. Details here.
The Romani Project (project coordinator, Yaron Matras) has a new audio CD out entitled “Romani Soundbites“. According to the website:
This is a series of short texts read out in English, which give examples of Romani vocabulary as it is used by the Romani Gypsies of England and Wales. This is a ZIP file of the full Audio CD tracks as mp3 files. These can be burnt to an Audio CD for listening on a normal CD player using software such as Windows media player or Apple iTunes
The John Rylands library has been designated one of five “national research libraries”, and will receive a significant funding boost as a consequence. Details from the THE here.
Via Peter Austin on the Endangered Languages email list:
Endangered Languages Week 2008
Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Russell Square, London 30th April to 8th May 2008Through films, displays, discussions and workshops Endangered Languages Week 2008 presents what is being done to document, archive and support endangered languages at SOAS and around the world. There are approximately 7,000 languages spoken today and half of them are under threat from larger languages.
The theme is “What can WE do?”, exploring how researchers, students, language community members and members of the public can work together to address the challenges of global language and cultural loss.
Activities include:
Speakers include SOAS staff and Dr Lise Dobrin (USA), Prof Maurizio Gnerre (Italy), Dr David Harrison (USA), Dr Cecelia Ode (Netherlands), Dr Nicholas Ostler (UK), Prof Peter Sutton (Australia) and Dr Ljuba Veselinova (Sweden). Most events are free of charge and open to anyone who is interested in endangered languages. For further details visit our website or write to elap AT soas.ac.uk
This summer boasts a corpus linguistics summer school in Liverpool. Check out the details here. [Thanks, Nuria!]
This week’s Language Sandwidge features Nick Smith (Salford) speaking on ‘WILL + be + -ing: From aspect to pragmatics’. The talk will take place 1-2pm, room S.2.2, Samuel Alexander.
This week’s seminar speaker is Geoffrey K. Pullum (University of Edinburgh and famed Language Log blogger), speaking on ‘Infinity, recursion, and the universal properties of human language‘. The talk is at 4:15 in Room A.101 of the Samuel Alexander Building, with drinks to follow in Room W3.13.
