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 by manling
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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 by manling
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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 by manling
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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 11, 2017 by manling
Comments Off on DH@Manchester invited Prof Rens Bod to talk about the history of humanities
On Thursday and Friday (May 11 and 12), Professor Rens Bod (University of Amsterdam) is giving a series of talks at the John Ryland’s library, and a masterclass in Mansfield Cooper (with Guyda Armstrong). The event is organised by the wonderful DH@Manchester team (more details available here). If you are interested in digital humanities, keep an eye […]
May 11, 2017 by manling
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Last week, LEL said goodbye to beloved colleague Yuni Kim. Yuni started working as a lecturer in Linguistics and English Language in January 2009, immediately after being awarded a PhD in linguistic from Berkeley. Her research specialises in the phonological and grammatical analysis of understudied languages (focussed on but certainly not limited to Mesoamerican languages). Since […]
May 10, 2017 by manling
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Next Tuesday, May 16, we welcome Sonia Cristofaro at the LEL Research Seminar. Professor Cristofaro, who is based at the University of Pavia (Italy), will come to Manchester to talk about Typological universals in diachronic perspective. The event details are as follows: Location: Samuel Alexander Building, room A112 Date and time: Tuesday, May 9, 4.15pm-5.30pm We look forward to welcoming Sonia […]
June 20, 2017 by manling
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