Tag: linguistics
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Reading Digest (15-22 December)
Here’s a round up of various articles, posts and stories I came across in the past week: Is this the future of academics? The How I Get By series in Vitae describes the diverse everyday lives of academics: in one of the most powerful articles I’ve read this week, they present an interview with Mary-Faith Cerasoli, an…
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Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2013
Update (2014) This is a post advertising a linguistics conference that took place in St. Petersburg in 2013. Its content is no longer current and it is retained here for archival purposes only. If you are interested in receiving updates for similar academic events, you may want to consider subscribing to this blog.
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Call for Papers: Language Revitalization in a Russian and European Context (MinorEuRus)
This conference, to be held at the University of Helsinki (Finland) between 16th and 18th December 2013, will highlight research on language extinction and revitalisation, with special emphasis on the minority languages of the Russian Federation and the European Union. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the conference aims to bring together perspectives from fields such as contact…
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Linguistics Research Digest
This blog was brought to my attention when they published a summary of Rob Drummond‘s article on phonological variation among the Polish community in Manchester (the article, which is well worth a read, can be accessed here). The digests of linguistics articles that are published in the blog are concise, very clearly written, extremely informative…
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The Great Greek Vowel Controversy
As far as scientific disciplines go, linguistics is probably not the most contentious that springs to mind. And yet, in 2012, Greek linguistics became the centre of a seemingly ludicrous controversy over a school textbook. This article describes what has come to be known as the Great Greek Vowel Controversy, or the Φωνηεντιάδα. What happened?…