Departmental hockey team!

Contact Laurence Adams (below):

Hi,

I am looking to start a Linguistics and English Language hockey team for the mixed hockey campus league on Sundays this year.

It’s good fun and won’t be too serious- if you’re looking for a run around on a Sunday afternoon with fellow linguists then this is for you!

It’s open to both staff and students and anybody of any ability-whether you play hockey already or just want to give it a go!

If you’re at all interested then let me know as soon as possible—I need to get a good idea of numbers!

Email me on laurence.adams@student.manchester.ac.uk

Thanks!

Linguistics can get you a job

Via Maciej, linguistics as one of ten “unusual” majors that can get you a job, here.

Middle English Manuscripts conference

Via David D:

To celebrate the completion of the Middle English Manuscripts digitisation project at the John Rylands University Library in Manchester, and to formally launch the resource, there will be a one-day conference at the Rylands on 18 Sept 2009, with a public lecture the evening before. We hope you will be able to attend.

For further information about the conference and the project as a whole, please visit the project blog at the address below.

http://mmems.wordpress.com/

The conference programme and a registration form are available online.

End of year party pics!

Check out the photos from the end of year party at Eva S-B’s here, courtesty of our recently departed, and already much missed, visiting colleague Eva Berlage.  Among the gems, John Payne performs his best Kenny Craig impersonation for Andrew K-G, to extraordinary effect.*  (If you see Andrew acting oddly around the department, you know who to blame.)

*Get your budget requests to John before the beginning of the year party in September.  He assures Manchet that when he and the Head of School are next in the same room together, he’ll get us sorted.

Laker in ELL

Visiting colleague Stephen Laker has just had a paper appear in the most recent issue of English Language and Linguistics entitled “An explanation for the early phonemicisation of a voice contrast in English fricatives”.  Check it out here.

Baranowski awarded BA small grant

Congrats to colleague Maciej Baranowski who has just been awarded a British Academy Small Grant (£5766) for a project on phonological variation and change in African American Vernacular English in Charleston, SC.  We’ll look forward to hearing about the results in the coming years!

LEL UG graduation ceremony

Complete with David, Ricardo, Andrew, Nigel (as m/c), students in funny garb, organ music, and mace wielding guards.  Available here (scroll down to the Thursday, 9 July, 10am ceremony).

Professor Payne, the voice that crieth in the desert

As relayed by Ricardo B-O.  Details here.

Atintono in Ghanian press

PhD student Sam Atintono has an article with Eugene Fasola at modernghana.com on “Making Gurene an Examinable subject at the BECE: facts and reflections”.  Check it out here.

Ricardo and John on lingbuzz

Ricardo and John’s paper denying the existence of special clitics is climbing the charts on lingbuzz—at the time of writing, it’s the fourth most downloaded paper of the week.  Check it out, here.