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Hogg-fest

manling — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:15:49 +0000

On Saturday 17 December a half-day event has been organized to commemorate our late (great) colleague, Professor Richard M. Hogg, on the occasion of the launch of the CUP book Analysing older English. Details of the book and its contributors can be found here

http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item6459591/Analysing%20Older%20English/?
site_locale=en_GB

The plan for the day is as follows, and further details will be posted on the website of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.

(A) 2 pm – 5 pm (approx): papers as follows, relecting some of Richard’s research interests:

Professor Joan Beal (Sheffield), ‘By those provincials mispronounced’: 18th-century Attitudes to Northern English’

Dr Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (Manchester), ‘Input restructuring in the history of West Saxon a-stem neuter nouns’

Tea will be served.

Dr Rhona Alcorn (Edinburgh; first winner of the Richard M Hogg Essay Prize), ‘ Tracking change: from handbooks to word histories’

(B) 5 pm – 6 pm (approx): presentation of a copy of the book to Professor Margaret Hogg and some reminiscences of Richard from former colleagues. (Richard’s family will be present.) Drinks will be served.

The event is kindly sponsored by CUP and the Mont Follick fund of the University of Manchester. Sessions A and B will take place in room W.3.13 of the Samuel Alexander Building, number 67 on the campus map (South WIng entrance).

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/travel/maps/

Everyone is welcome to attend any or all of A, B and C, but it would be very helpful to know if you plan to do so. Please let Dr Ayumi Miura ( ayumi.miura@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk) know which parts of the day’s events you plan to attend. Thank you.

David Denison
Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero
Chris McCully
Emma Moore

Turton at F-MART

manling — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:12:14 +0000

PhD student Daniel Turton, who is this semester a visiting student at the Penn Linguistics Department, presented her work this past Friday on Stochastic Stratal OT and /l/-darkening at F-MART, the weekly morphology reading group at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kim in Cambridge

manling — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:09:18 +0000

This past week colleague Yuni Kim was in Cambridge delivering a talk on `Phonetics vs. phonology in Huave consonant-vowel interactions’. More details, including an abstract, can be found here.

Bermúdez-Otero to give ACTL lectures

manling — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:07:35 +0000

Colleague Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero gave a series of lectures in London these past two weeks with Andrew Nevins (UCL) at the `Advanced Core Training in Linguistics’. Details here.

Koontz-Garboden in Oxford and Salford

manling — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:02:40 +0000

Colleague Andrew Koontz-Garboden was in Oxford and Salford this past month giving seminar talks based on joint work with Itamar Francez (Chicago) on `Semantic variation and the grammar of property concepts.’ A manuscript that the talks were based on can be found here.

Cruschina at Italian Dialect Meeting

manling — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:22:52 +0000

Postdoc colleague Silvio Cruschina has been announced as a plenary speaker at the upcoming Italian Dialect Meeting. Details here!

Bermúdez-Otero in the old world and the new!

manling — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:13:42 +0000

Colleague Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero has just been announced as plenary speaker at the Seventh North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC7). The premier phonology conference of the new world will be held at Concordia University, Montreal, in May:

http://linguistics.concordia.ca/naphc7/

As it happens, he’ll also be giving the opening plenary at the Ninth Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP9) in Berlin in January:

http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/workshop_ocp9.html

The semanticists in the department reckon that this makes Ricardo the phonologist of choice in all possible worlds!

4 new permanent posts in Linguistics and English Language!

manling — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:06:00 +0000

Check out the details for a new post in General Linguistics here and three new permanent posts in English Linguistics here, both with a closing date of 13 Jan!

Baranowski in Journal of Sociolinguistics

manling — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:47:46 +0000

Colleague Maciej Baranowski has just had a paper, “Properties of the sociolinguistic
monitor”, coauthored with a number of colleagues from around the world, published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics! Check it out here.

Headlines for Martin Barry

manling — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:13:10 +0000

Former fearless leader and current honorary lecturer Martin Barry was in the news a few months back for a “punch in the air moment” related to his forensic linguistic work on CSI-esque murder case! Read all about it here.