On Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 June 2018, Professor Delia Bentley and Professor Eva Schultze Berndt are organising a workshop at our department on Information structure, referential status and referent type in discourse and grammar. Speakers include, among many international linguists, LEL’s own Delia Bentley, Tine Breban (along with visiting PhD student Wout Van Praet), Julio Villa-García, […]
April 16, 2018 by manling
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The Spring has been a busy and successful conference time for the Manchester linguistics postgrads: Stephen Nichols travelled all the way to East Lansing, MI for the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 49) to give a paper on ‘Accounting for Height Harmony in Five-vowel Bantu Languages’ . George Bailey attended the 8th Northern […]
March 21, 2018 by manling
Comments Off on Succesful vivas for Barrientos, Ghadgoud, Kauhanen, McDermott and Stampone!
We know. It’s been far too long since we gave you an update on which of our talented PhD students have passed their viva. If you thought there were none, boy are you mistaken. On October 26th, 2017, Victoria Stampone (currently a lecturer at Italian studies at UoM) passed her viva with a dissertation called […]
March 17, 2018 by manling
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The third episode of ‘LEL academic staff – what do they know? Do they know things? Let’s find out!’ better known as the ’10 minutes with…’-interviews features LEL lecturer and Star Trek enthusiast Dr Wendell Kimper. Wendell grew up in the US and completed his PhD in 2011 as UMass Amherst before coming to Manchester. Wendell […]
March 13, 2018 by manling
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On Tuesday 20th March, we will be joined by Professor Dagmar Divjak at the LEL Research Seminars. Professor Divjak specialises in Russian and Slavonic studies at the University of Sheffield, but her main area of interest is “understanding how our cognitive capacities give rise to the patterns we see in language and how language learners might […]
January 8, 2018 by manling
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The first LEL Research Seminar of 2018 features Dr Chris Montgomery, senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield. Montgomery is an expert in perceptual dialectology, and studies the perceptions of non-linguists. In his talk, he will do exactly that, focussing on Scilly. Evaluating S(c)illy Voices: The effects of salience, stereotypes, and co-present language variables on real-time […]
December 1, 2017 by manling
Comments Off on Last LEL Research seminar of 2017 – Johan Lundberg
For the last research talk of the semester, we welcome Johan Lundberg (Cambridge). Johan studied Theology and Ancient Near Eastern languages in Uppsala, Oslo, and Leiden. Next Tuesday, December 5th, he will be talking about his work on Aramaic Relative Clauses. The Diachrony of Aramaic Relative Clauses in Relation to other Subordinate Constructions Johan M. […]
June 22, 2018 by manling
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