At #ICAME47 @anteangaeile.bsky.social leads the celebrations for the 50th issue of the ICAME journal. You can find out all about it here icame.info/icame-journal/ and read #OpenAccess articles about all aspects of English and #CorpusLinguistics!
A comprehensive historical overview of varieties of English in the United States, Canada and the English-speaking Caribbean.
The New Cambridge History of the English Language Vol 5 eds. Natalie Schilling, Derek Denis, & Raymond Hickey, Out Now
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#LangSky 🐦🐦
The Mary Hamilton Papers links: blog (www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/refreshment-...), project website (www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk), letter HAM/1/9/116 (www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/view/AR-HAM-...) #18thC #langsky
Never knew Old English could take you places, but there we were, Alpo Honkapohja and I, on live radio today, interviewed by Nicklas Wancke about the new collection of OE literature translated into Finnish.
The Mary Hamilton Papers is much refreshed: full details & blog on our project website. New transcriptions, improved personography, more x-refs, many corrections. A striking example is the letter HAM/1/9/116, whose interpretation, authors, recipients and places have all been revised! #18thC #langsky
#ICAME48 is going to be in Helsinki May 17-22, 2027
After July 2024 we'd planned the next refreshing of The Mary Hamilton Papers for summer 2025, and when that didn't happen, rescheduled it at several points in late 2025 and early 2026. Each time, some...
"test...revealed...tendency to blend BrE and AmE... with a larger but inconsistent selection of AmE vocab. ...use of past tenses and deontic modality generally reflected British grammar. "
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
PhD with skills in medieval MSS & Latin needed!
Post-doctoral Research Fellow for 30 months (with the possibility of extension) to support the AHRC-Funded project 'Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain, c.1200-1500’
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Rachele
Cambridge University Press - Linguistics
www.tandfonline.com
While BrE and AmE are preferably standardized in formal EFL educational programs, questions remain about how EFL learners perceive, prefer, and use English in real-world communication. This study i...
The University of Southampton is seeking to appoint a post-doctoral Research Fellow for 30 months (with the possibility of extension). The Fellow will support the AHRC-Funded project 'Strange Geograph...
If you are feeling that you are missing out on the London International Palaeography School, it is not too late to book for Birmingham…
Do you want to learn to read old documents? Do you need to learn some Latin? The 49th Palaeography Summer School is for you! 👇 Tell all your friends. #palaeography #Skystorians #MedievalSky
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The School, formerly the Keele Latin and Palaeography Summer School, returns for its 49th year. In 2025 The Ranulf Higden Society took over the organisation of the Latin and Palaeography Summer Sch…
It is with great sadness that we must announce the death of our colleague and friend Anthony Warner, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, who died on 27 May 2026 after suffering a stroke. Anthony was a central figure in historical syntax and the history of English, in the UK and far beyond, and one of the people who did most to shape this Department over nearly four decades.
Anthony was born on 27 January 1945 in Bishops Sto
