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David Alan Cruse by Alan Cruttenden Alan Cruse, a member of the Department of Linguistics for thirty years and a leading figure in linguistics in the field of lexical semantics, died on 13 June 2020. His research in this area was marked by deep and original thinking. His book, Lexical Semantics (CambridgeUP, 1986) provided for […]
March 19, 2020 by manling
Comments Off on Pets of LEL: Kasi
The type of international jet-setting lifestyle that many linguists enjoy(ed until recently) does not easily lend itself to having a pet. In situations like this, some of us resort to stalking or seducing other people’s cats, even though such activities may wreak real havoc. On this note, straight from the Bochnak household, here’s Anton trying […]
February 5, 2020 by manling
Comments Off on Coretta in JASA
Stefano Coretta has left LEL for Munich (oh how we miss his competent but jolly presence!), but he’s still putting Manchester on the map through his made-in-Manchester papers. The latest has come out in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA is a Big Deal in phonetics), and is titled [SPOILER ALERT] “Longer […]
July 15, 2019 by manling
Comments Off on Postcard from Julio
Julio is in sunny Spain, where he has kept busy spreading the gospel of language diversity. He has been consulted about multilingualism and code switching by just about every media outlet in the country, and he has collected enough newspaper cutouts with his face on to wallpaper his office once he’s back.
June 20, 2019 by manling
Comments Off on How to say no – a historical perspective
Not just for linguists! Check out this fantastic blog post by George Walkden, about his research with Donald Morrison on historical changes affecting negation in Middle English. Written in plain English and adorned with pretty maps!
March 28, 2019 by manling
Comments Off on Successful viva for Simone De Cia
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 […]
June 22, 2020 by manling
Comments Off on Obituary: Alan Cruse