Below are a selection of news items from the Linguistics department covering new publications, new hires, invited talks, new grants, and other successes. Most recent news is displayed at the top. For more information about a news item, click the title.
As of October 2022, most news items can be read on our QMUL Linguistics Twitter feed.
New article: "Between Nottin’ Ill Gite and Bleckfriars" by Dr Johanna Gerwin 4 May 2023
The Randolph Quirk Fellowship 2023 21 April 2023
We are delighted to be joined by the 2023 Fellow, Professor Michael Wagner (McGill University).
Farida Soliman’s paper available via Queen Mary’s OPALs 8 February 2023
Queen Mary has a new OPAL.
Hazel Pearson gives conference talk 26 October 2022
Kerrilyn Jackson publishes in conference proceedings 26 October 2022
Dave Kenneth Cayado gives poster presentation 11 October 2022
Dan Price awarded 2002 LAGB Outstanding UG Dissertation Prize 30 September 2022
Linguistics welcomes new staff! 30 September 2022
Songyan Du is awarded a PhD in Linguistics 30 September 2022
Matthew Hunt publishes article 15 September 2022
Former PhD student Matthew Hunt has just published a co-authored article in Journal of Sociolinguistics entitled 'Swear(ING) ain't play(ING): The interaction of taboo language and the sociolinguistic variable'
PhD student Dave Cayado presents at conference 13 September 2022
Devyani Sharma and Kathleen McCarthy are awarded a three-year ESRC grant 7 September 2022
Louis Strange is awarded a PhD in Linguistics 31 July 2022
Matthew Hunt is awarded a PhD in Linguistics 31 July 2022
Scott Lewis is awarded a PhD in Linguistics 31 July 2022
The SAVANT team organises the first SAVANT Summer School in Neurolinguistics 22 July 2022
Hagit Borer gives interview for Revista Linguistica 15 July 2022
Accent Bias project - Devyani Sharma attends launch of the Equality Act Review 7 July 2022
Festival of Communities 15 June 2022
QM Linguistics top-ranked in REF 2021 31 May 2022
Hazel Pearson gives invited talk 27 May 2022
Prof. Devyani Sharma is interviewed for BBC article on accent biases 10 May 2022
Francesca Ziegler and Elisha Wijesekera are awarded summer scholarship 4 May 2022
Hazel Pearson publishes book chapter 4 May 2022
Alice Stanton is awarded PhD scholarship 4 May 2022
GLOW45 held at QMUL 2 May 2022
Agnieszka Lyons publishes co-authored book 4 April 2022
Hazel Pearson publishes co-authored article 4 April 2022
PhD student Logan Simpson publishes article 28 March 2022
Victoria Taylor wins scholarship for Lavender Languages Institute 28 March 2022
MA students accepted on PhD programmes at MIT and NYU 28 March 2022
Sophie Holmes-Elliott publishes a new article 25 March 2022
New article published in the Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 1 March 2022
Interview with members of the SAVANT project on DBC News Daily 1 March 2022
David Hall in The New Yorker 8 February 2022
Louis Strange publishes article 4 February 2022
Linnaea Stockall is about to publish new co-authored article 26 January 2022
Luisa Marti gives invited talk 15 January 2022
Chiara Ardoino presents paper at conference 14 January 2022
PhD student Matthew Hunt has published an article 10 January 2022
Elvis Coimbra Gomes is awarded a PhD in Linguistics 31 December 2021
Elvis Coimbra Gomes has been awarded a PhD in Linguistics. Congratulations!
Thesis title:Language & Normativity in Sexuality and Gender-Related Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Netnographic-Informed Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study.
Alex Panicacci publishes a book 6 December 2021
GLOW45 conference at QMUL next April 11 November 2021
A paper by Devyani Sharma features in the 50th anniversary collection of Language in Society 11 November 2021
Coppe van Urk and Zhouyi Sun present paper at conference 30 October 2021
Hazel Pearson gives invited talk 30 October 2021
New "Exploring the Nonbinary" reading group 29 October 2021
Kathleen McCarthy presented at the Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 26 October 2021
Sarah Kirk-Browne publishes her first article 17 October 2021
Kathleen McCarthy is promoted to Senior Lecturer in Linguistics 1 October 2021
Adam Chong is promoted to Senior Lecturer in Linguistics 1 October 2021
Colleen Cotter is promoted to Professor in Media Linguistics 1 October 2021
Kathleen McCarthy wins award 30 June 2021
Successful viva voce: Stamatina Katsiveli 28 June 2021
Hagit Borer talked to Oxford University Linguistics Society 1 June 2021
Undergraduate student gets internship at ECOLANG 17 May 2021
Hagit Borer giving a talk at ABRALIN 10 May 2021
Our very own Hagit Borer is giving a talk at the Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN) on Wednesday 15 May 2021 at 6pm (UK time). Check it out here:
https://aovivo.abralin.org/lives/grammar-architecture-2/
Louis Strange publishes first article 26 April 2021
Linnaea Stockall receives ESRC grant 24 September 2020
Our very own Linnaea Stockal received an ESRC grant for her Systematicity and Variation in Word Structure Processing Across Languages: a Neuro-Typology approach (SAVANT). The project brings together a global team of rearchers to explore how speakers detect, recognise and interpret constituent pieces of complex words. For more information consult this webpage.
UG student wins LAGB prize 15 September 2020
Elvis Coimbra-Gomes publishes article 8 September 2020
Stamatina Katsiveli publishes article 2 September 2020
Devyani Sharma on Radio 4 31 August 2020
Linnaea Stockall promoted 31 August 2020
London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership wins ESRC funding bid 8 August 2016
The new London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership has been awarded a 5 year grant from the ESRC.
QMUL at Sociolinguistics Symposium 21 | 15-18th June | Murcia 30 June 2016
QMUL is going to be well represent at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 21 to be held 15-18th June in Murcia, Spain.
Staff promotions: Professor Devyani Sharma 11 May 2016
Join us in congratulating Dr Devyani Sharma on her promotion to Professor of Sociolinguistics!
PhD awarded: Dr. Pavadee Saisuwan 11 May 2016
Join us in congratulating Dr. Pavadee Saisuwan.
PhD awarded: Dr. David Hall 11 May 2016
Join us in confratulating Dr. David Hall on the successful completion of his PhD.
Featured linguist: David Adger at the LINGUIST List 20 April 2016
Professor David Adger is the featured linguist at the LINGUIST List!
New website for the MSC-funded project by Christos Vlachos and David Adger 23 December 2015
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research-funded project on Clausal Selection: Integrating Theoretical with Experimental Linguistics (ClauSe: InTEL) by Dr Christos Vlachos and Professor David Adger has a ne
QMUL Fryni Panayidou gives invited talk at the University of Bristol 2 December 2015
QMUL Dr Fryni Panayidou gives an invited talk at the Linguistics Colloquium at the School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol.
QMUL Erez Levon gives plenary lectures at SVALP in Virginia and LIB in Oxford 25 November 2015
Dr Erez Levon will give a plenary lecture at the Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Processing (SVALP) conference.
Third International Conference on Language Attrition (ICLA3) co-organized by QMUL Esther de Leeuw 27 October 2015
Esther de Leeuw is co-organzing the Third International Conference on Language Attrition (ICLA3) at the University of Essex, Colchester on July 5-7, 2016.
New Paper published in RATIO by Drs. Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Linnaea Stockall and Napoleon Katsos 19 October 2015
We are very pleased to congratulate QMUL Drs. Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Linnaea Stockall and Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge) on the publication.
QMUL at NWAV 44 | Toronto 22-25 October 2015 19 October 2015
QMUL is going to be well represent at the 44th New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference (NWAV 44) to be held October 22-25, 2015 in Toronto, Canada.
QMUL Linnaea Stockall presents at SNL 2015 in Chicago and at McMaster University in Ontario 19 October 2015
Dr. Linnaea Stockall presents at the Seventh Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language.
The Department is hiring: Two posts in Linguistics: one in Semantics and one in Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics 1 October 2015
The Linguistics Department is hiring.
Dr Christos Vlachos takes up a MSC fellowship 30 September 2015
Join us in welcoming Dr Christos Vlachos, a new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow.
New staff in linguistics: van Urk, Drummond, Lyons and Kasstan 28 September 2015
Join us in welcoming new staff in linguistics:
Staff promotions: Dr. Esther de Leeuw 28 September 2015
Join us in congratulating Dr. Esther de Leeuw on her promotion to Senior Lecturer in Linguistics!
QMUL post-doc Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga presents at the Generic Workshop at Harvard University 20 September 2015
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga will be presenting a paper.
QMUL PhD student Shivonne Gates presents in York and in Dublin 2 September 2015
Shivonne Gates is presenting at the 10th UK Language Variation and Change (UKLVC) in York, UK.
QMUL PhD student Panpan Yao presents in Potsdam (EAPC3) and in Malta (AMLAP 2015) 1 September 2015
Panpan Yao is presenting at two conferences.
QMUL PhD student Pavadee Saisuwan presents in York and in Toronto 24 August 2015
Pavadee Saisuwan is presenting at two conferences this autumn: at the 10th UK Language Variation and Change (UKLVC) in York, UK and at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 44 (NWAV) in Toronto, Canada.
Daniel Harbour on what Game of Thrones can teach us about person and place 22 August 2015
As part of the Roots IV workshop on morphology and the lexicon in New York City in July, NYU and NYUAD hosted the public lecture "More Than Words: Morphology and the Universality of Language".
QMUL presents at the PARLAY 2015 in York 18 August 2015 QMUL presents twice at the PARLAY 2015 Conference for Postgraduate and Academic Researchers in Linguistics at the University of York.
QMUL presents at the PARLAY 2015 in York 18 August 2015
QMUL presents twice at the PARLAY 2015 Conference for Postgraduate and Academic Researchers in Linguistics at the University of York.
PhD awarded: Dr. Fangfang Niu 18 August 2015
Join us in congratulating Dr. Fangfang Niu on the successful completion of her PhD.
Devyani Sharma on BBC's The One Show 9 February 2015
Devyani Sharma appeared on BBC's The One Show in a 5-minute story tallking about her research!
The Queen Mary Lectures on Nominal Structure | Tuesdays 2-4pm 12 January 2015
The Queen Mary Lectures on Nominal Structure
REF 2014 results: Linguistics tops the REF league table for quality 9 January 2015 Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London tops the REF league table for quality!
REF 2014 results: Linguistics tops the REF league table for quality 9 January 2015
Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London tops the REF league table for quality!
Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship awarded to Professor Hagit Borer 5 January 2015
Join us in congratulating Professor Hagit Borer, who has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for 2 years starting in October 2015.
QMUL at NWAV 43 | Chicago 23-26 October 2014 20 October 2014
QMUL is going to be well represent at the 43rd New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference (NWAV 43) to be held October 23-26, 2014 in Chicago.
Listen to Professor David Adger in a new interview | QM PhD students interview their supervisors 9 October 2014
PhD students at QM have just launched a series of podcasts in which they interview their supervisors individually and have a chat about their research interests, views on the discipline, life as a res
QMUL PhD student Panpan Yao at AMLAP 2014 | University of Edinburgh 29 August 2014
Panpan Yao presents a poster titled 'Investigation of Chinese-English learners acquisition of tense and aspect in English: Self-paced reading and eye-movement study'.
QMUL at LAGB | University of Oxford, 1-5 September 2014 6 August 2014
QMUL is going to be well represented at the LAGB Annual Meeting 2014.
Panayidou dissertation available via Queen Mary's OPALs 30 May 2014
Listen to Professor David Adger in a new podcast interview on his book 'A syntax of substance' 30 April 2014 Listen here to Professor David Adger on a podcast interview on his MIT Press book 'A Syntax of Substance' in the New Books on Language series.
Listen to Professor David Adger in a new podcast interview on his book 'A syntax of substance' 30 April 2014
Listen here to Professor David Adger on a podcast interview on his MIT Press book 'A Syntax of Substance' in the New Books on Language series.
QMUL alumnus James Hawkey joins the University of Bristol as Lecturer in Hispanic Linguistics 10 April 2014
Join us in congratulating Dr. James Hawkey on his new job.
New British Academy research grant on genericity awarded to QMUL and University of Cambridge linguists 10 April 2014 Join us in congratulating Linnaea Stockall, Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge) and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, who have been awarded a British Academy research grant.
New British Academy research grant on genericity awarded to QMUL and University of Cambridge linguists 10 April 2014
Join us in congratulating Linnaea Stockall, Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge) and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, who have been awarded a British Academy research grant.
New book on 'Research Methods in Linguistics' published in Cambridge University Press by Devyani Sharma and Robert Podesva 8 April 2014
We are very pleased to congratulate Devyani Sharma on co-editing with Robert Podesva a new book "Research Methods in Linguistics".
New book on 'Definite descriptions' published in OUP by Paul Elbourne 8 April 2014
We are very pleased to congratulate Paul Elbourne on his new book.
New paper published in PNAS by Prof. David Adger and Jennifer Culbertson 8 April 2014
We are very pleased to congratulate Professor David Adger and Jennifer Culbertson on their article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) this month.
QMUL presents at the 1st UCL Graduate Conference in Linguistics 7 November 2013
QMUL presents twice at the 1st UCL Graduate Conference in Linguistics that takes place on the 7th and 8th of November in Chandler House (2 Wakefield Street, London, WC1N 1PF).
Conference 25 October 2013
David Adger will participate in a discussion on negation and affirmation in varieties of Scottish English at the Comparative syntax of English workshop.
QMUL Linguistics was well represented at the recent NWAV.
Mind in Society Launch Event 25 October 2013
Join us on Thursday, November 28th for the launch event of the new Centre for Mind in Society.
Dr. Anita Szakay joins us, gives talk at UKLVC 9 September 2013 We are very happy to welcome Dr. Anita Szakay (PhD UBC) to our department.
Dr. Anita Szakay joins us, gives talk at UKLVC 9 September 2013
We are very happy to welcome Dr. Anita Szakay (PhD UBC) to our department.
Conference 9 September 2013
Sociolinguistics 9 September 2013
Syntax 9 September 2013
Professor David Adger recently gave a week of lectures on his new book.
Lecture 9 September 2013
Professor David Adger Lectures on 'A Syntax of Substance' online 9 September 2013
Professor David Adger recently gave a week of lectures on his new book, 'A Syntax of Substance.'
Professor David Adger at the LSA Summer Institute `Syntax and Variation' workshop 2 July 2013
David Adger will give a talk.
Watch the recording of Prof. Jennifer Coates June 7 Lecture 12 June 2013
On June 7th, Prof. Jennifer Coates of the University of Roehampton delivered the 3rd Annual Jenny Cheshire Lecture.
Lecture 12 June 2013
On June 7th, Prof. Jennifer Coates of the University of Roehampton delivered the 3rd Annual Jenny Cheshire Lecture, entitled "The discursive production of everyday heterosexualities."
QMUL linguist Esther de Leeuw presents QM collaborative work at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore 7 June 2013
Esther de Leeuw is presenting twice at the 9th International Symposium on Bilingualism.
PhD awarded: Dr. Philippa Law 31 May 2013
Join us in congratulating Dr. Philippa Law on the successful completion of her PhD.
QMUL linguist Jenny Cheshire gives a plenary lecture at Universidade de Santiago de Compestela 31 May 2013
QMUL linguist Jenny Cheshire gives a plenary lecture on 'Multiethnolects and English Corpus Linguistics' at the 34th ICAME conference.
QMUL linguists Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga and Linnaea Stockall present work at XPRAG London Master Class at UCL 30 May 2013
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga and Linnaea Stockall present a poster at the XPRAG London Master Class.
PhD awarded: Dr. Rachelle Vessey 30 May 2013
Join us in congratulating Dr. Rachelle Vessey on the successful completion of her PhD.
QMUL linguist Esther de Leeuw presents QM collaborative work at Concordia University 16 May 2013
Esther de Leeuw is presenting twice at the New Sounds 2013 conference at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, on May 17-19.
QMUL linguist Paul Elbourne gives an invited lecture at Ohio State University 14 March 2013
On March the 21st, QMUL linguist Paul Elbourne will give an invited talk.
OPAL 11 December 2012 Luke's undergraduate thesis.
OPAL 11 December 2012
Luke's undergraduate thesis.
'A Syntax of Substance' by David Adger now available for preorder 15 November 2012
Professor David Adger's new book 'A Syntax of Substance' is now available for preorder from MIT Press.
Postgraduate 5 October 2012
The MA student handbook for 2012-13 is now available for download.
MA Handbook for 2012-13 now online 5 October 2012
QMUL gives an invited seminar lecture at the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow 26 September 2012
On October 4, QMUL linguist Erez Levon will give an invited seminar lecture on "Sociophonetic variation and the intersection of gender and social class in the Southeast of England."
Promotions 25 September 2012 We all congratulate Dr. Colleen Cotter on her promotion.
Promotions 25 September 2012
We all congratulate Dr. Colleen Cotter on her promotion.
Staff Promotions: Dr. Colleen Cotter & Dr. Erez Levon 25 September 2012
We all congratulate Dr. Colleen Cotter on her promotion to Reader in Media Linguistics.
2012-13 Module Directory with Classroom Locations now out 18 September 2012
See attached to download the Module Directory and find the locations of your classes.
Two new papers available through QMOPAL 18 July 2012 The following two papers have just been published.
Two new papers available through QMOPAL 18 July 2012
The following two papers have just been published.
Jenny Cheshire elected to Fellowship of British Academy 6 July 2012
Professor Jenny Cheshire has been elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy in recognition of her significant achievements to research and academia in the U.K.
Dr. Devyani Sharma promoted to Senior Lecturer 6 July 2012
Dr. Devyani Sharma has been promoted to Senior Lecturer of Linguistics.
Dr. Daniel Harbour promoted to Reader in Cognitive Science 6 July 2012
Dr. Daniel Harbour has been promoted to Reader in Cognitive Science.