We've just advertised a 12-month research fellowship at Northumbria (a corpus-based diachronic project on words for 'yes' and 'no' in European languages)
Please share with anybody you know who might be interested
A great bunch of people and lots of good conversations about language, spelling, variation and change, attitudes, health communication, and grammar in schools
I'm looking forward to talking at @pintofscience inNewcastle again, this time with my @NorthumbriaUni colleague Tony Williams — only 8 tickets left! (it's a small room B--)
Is language part of our cultural heritage? Join Professor Natalie Braber in our linguistics research seminar series on Wednesday 27 November to explore this and related questions
I'm looking forward to the Northumbria and Newcastle postgraduate linguistics conference tomorrow — what a great job our students have done putting this together!
Naturally, I will be compiling a summary of the really useful tips and thoughts folk have shared with me as I've been asking for advice on teaching syntax this semester — it looks like this might become book-length B--)
It also brought back memories of Aix in 2022 when Tony previewed versions of the opening sentence to our audience at the PALA (Poetics and Linguistics Association) conference)
A definite holiday highlight for me was reading Cole the Magnificent by Tony Williams — clever, playful, and lots to think about for anybody interested in storytelling, poetry, song, dis/narration, and life B--)
I have memories of watching it in Aberdeen with my friend's sister and her baby during school lunchtimes — at a time when it seems it wasn't on TV in the UK (I trust the facts more than my memory, of course)
