Checkout colleague David Denison’s chronicle of this year’s beerwalk, a charity event (for Christie’s Hospital, in his team’s case).
Archive for May, 2008
Denison at beerwalk
May 21, 2008Wackernagel seminar
May 21, 2008Tomorrow in classics there will be a talk by our classics colleague David Langslow on his magnum opus translation of Wackernagel’s “Lectures on Syntax”. Details below the fold.
Hison reminder
May 21, 2008In little more than about a dozen words you can consider yourself reminded about the Historical Sociolinguistics Network summer school, at which colleague Stephen Milner from Italian will be teaching. Details here.
PhD position in “Semtracks”
May 21, 2008Manchester Phonology Meeting
May 21, 2008The MFM begins tomorrow! Details here.
Mosegaard-Hansen at “Cycles of Grammaticalization”
May 21, 2008French department colleague Maj-Britt Mosegaard-Hansen is an invited discussant at a June 7 workshop at Aston University and Birmingham City University on “Cycles of Grammaticalization.” Details here.
PhD Alum Jeremy Carroll in the news
May 14, 2008PhD Alum Jeremy Carroll (PhD in computational linguistics at what was then UMIST) has a new job; details here.
Börjars and Vincent at upcoming LFG conference
May 10, 2008Colleagues Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent are on the schedule for what looks like an exciting 13th International LFG conference in Sydney. Their paper is “Objects.” Get all the details of the conference, a part of the more larger “LingFest” going on in Sydney this (southern) winter here.
Today’s Langwidge Sandwidge
May 6, 2008Dear Sandwidgistas,
Tomorrow’s Sandwidge is the last planned meeting of this academic year.
We hope you’ll come along to hear John Bellamy talk
‘On attitudes to linguistic variation in the UK and Austria’
Room S.2.2, Tuesday 1-2 pm.
best
David, Nuria and Phillip
Today’s seminar
May 6, 2008Dear all,
A reminder about this week’s Linguistics and English Language seminar, which is also the final one this semester. Please note the start time of 4.15pm.
Tuesday 6th May
***4.15pm-5.15pm***
Room A101, Samuel Alexander Building
Alexander Andrason (University of Iceland)
“Vilamovicean and language contact phenomenon: The influence of Polish on the smallest Germanic language’”
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
