On July 6, travel and info guide Atlas Obscura published an interview with historical linguist Lauren Fonteyn on the wondrous world of demonyms. A demonym is a word used to describe a person from or a property of a certain place. For instance, Londoner is the demonym of London, and Belgian is the demonym of Belgium. As aptly noted by Dan […]
July 7, 2017
Comments Off on LEL’s PhD students and staff have a busy summer full of talks
Summer is by tradition academic conference season, and so LEL’s people are very busy busy doing a lot of (work-related) travel. Last week, for instance, two of our Mancunian PhD students gave a talk at FWAV-4 in York. George Bailey talked about Synchronic evidence for diachronic pathways of change: /g/-deletion and the life cycle of phonological […]
June 20, 2017
Comments Off on Andrew Koontz-Garboden’s new book
The last couple of months have been quite exciting for LEL’s Andrew Koontz-Garboden. Not only has he been promoted from Senior Lecturer to Professor (!), he will also be the new head of department, and he has published a new book with his colleague Itamar Frances. The book, which was published in the Oxford studies in […]
June 19, 2017
Comments Off on New Nini paper on register variation in malicious texts
New staff member Andrea Nini, who joined LEL in September, teaches forensic linguistics and stylistics at the University of Manchester. In this new publication, recently published in the International Journal of Speech Language and the Law, Andrea combines his expertise in forensic linguistics and stylistics. The study examines register variation in malicious texts by looking at […]
June 12, 2017
Comments Off on Viva Safiah!
LEL’s PhD student Safiah Madkhali had a successful viva last week. Her PhD thesis, which was supervised by Professor Kersti Börjars and Professor John Payne, dealt with ‘Cognate object constructions in Modern Standard Arabic’. We wish Safiah all the best of luck in her future career! Featured image: Safiah is pictured here with LEL’s Martina […]
June 6, 2017
Comments Off on Silver anniversary of mfm
The Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm) has just celebrated its silver anniversary. In its 25 years of history, mfm has become the largest phonology conference in the world, regulary attracting participants from all over the world. The silver jubilee festivities included a wine reception at Hulme Hall, during which Koen Sebregts gave a fun- and fact-packed […]
May 17, 2017
Comments Off on Kersti is running the Manchester 10k – for a good cause!
On Sunday May 28, Professor Kersti Börjars will be running the in the Manchester 10K as part of the Purple Wave as the University’s bee mascot! Kersti has let Manchet know that she is hoping to raise money for Lemn Sissay’s Christmas Dinner for Care Leavers. If you want to make a contribution for this good cause, go […]
July 8, 2017
Comments Off on ‘Mancunians, not Manchesterians’ – Fonteyn’s interview in Atlas Obscura