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Simone De Cia successfully passed his viva on Tuesday 26th March. Simone’s dissertation was on ‘Information-Structure-related phenomena in Northern Italian dialects: Consequences for the geometry of the left periphery’. The thesis was supervised by Delia Bentley and Julio Villa-García, and defended before a committee of Adam Ledgeway (Cambridge) and John Payne (internal examiner). Simone is […]
January 14, 2019 by manling
Comments Off on ‘Being Part of the City: Multilingual Manchester’ on YouTube
Multilingual Manchester, a research unit based at The University of Manchester, has just released a film showcasing its outreach and public engagement work. You can watch on it on YouTube. How many LEL colleagues and students can you spot?
December 19, 2018 by manling
Comments Off on Breban in English Language and Linguistics
The latest issue of English Language and Linguistics features a paper by our own Tine Breban on “Proper names used as modifiers: a comprehensive functional analysis”. It provides a new and insightful analysis of the use of proper names in English noun phrases, such as that Breban paper, or the Manchet fanbase. A taster of the analysis is […]
November 5, 2018 by manling
Comments Off on Linguistics events this week
It’s a busy week for Manchester linguists, with exciting invited speakers. The Tuesday seminar will be given by Ulrike Demske (University of Potsdam) at 12 noon (note the change of time!) in SG.12. The title of the talk is ‘Syntax and Discourse Structure: V-Final Main Clauses in German’. Later that day, we will have a […]
October 24, 2018 by manling
Comments Off on Baranowski and Turton at NWAV47
Maciej is just back New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV), *the* annual sociolinguistics conference, where he presented joint work with LEL alumna, Danielle Turton (now at Newcastle). The paper, titled ‘Locating speakers in the socioeconomic hierarchy: towards the optimal indicators of social class’ is based on data from Maciej’s Manchester English project. This ways NWAV was […]
October 15, 2018 by manling
Comments Off on Alice Corr at LEL seminar
The seminar this Tuesday 16 October will be by Alice Corr from the University of Birmingham, whose talk is entitled ‘Old Ibero-Romance distributive numerals and the syntax-semantics interface’ (abstract below). We will be back in A102 this week. The talk will be followed by a glass of wine or juice. Old Ibero-Romance distributive numerals and the syntax-semantics […]
October 10, 2018 by manling
Comments Off on New job for Bailey
Hot on the heels of an excellent seminar talk yesterday, comes exciting news about George Bailey’s new job. George will be taking up the post of a Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology at the University of York, beginning in November. Manchet congratulates and promises to closely monitor George’s vowels for any Yorkshire influences. Disclaimer: […]
March 28, 2019 by manling
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