News
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.
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ESRC project Generations of London English launches website
28 February 2025
PhD student Sora Heng Yin presents at phonology conference
20 November 2024
Prof. Daniel Harbour gives two talks at grapholinguistics conference
20 November 2024
Prof. David Adger develops language for Amazon TV series
1 November 2024
BA Linguistics students receive careers workshop
31 October 2024
New Paper: Prof. Daniel Harbour on The Rosetta Stone
29 October 2024
New Paper: PhD student Logan Simpson on emerging writing systems
11 October 2024
PhD student Sora Heng Yin begins placement with Ogma Therapy
10 October 2024
SAVANT team give presentations at AMLaP
10 October 2024
Graduate awarded British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
7 August 2024
SAVANT project receives extension to ESRC grant
2 August 2024
Queen Mary MA student awarded Swiss Scholarship
1 August 2024
PhD awarded to Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado
1 July 2024
PhD awarded to Kerrilyn Jackson
6 March 2024
QM linguists present work at MIT for NELS 54 conference
2 February 2024
QM linguists (current and past) were busy this weekend in Boston, USA, giving presentations at the 54th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS) 54 conference at MIT.
Prof. Cotter and RJ Hellyer present at AAA/CASCA in Toronto
22 November 2023
PhD awarded to Jessica Zihuan Zhong
6 October 2023
Spearkers of A-bar Matters workshop confirmed
11 September 2023
New article from Dr Rhys J. Sandow on Lexical variation in Cornwall
1 September 2023
Linguistics Department No. 1 for Teaching in the NSS
1 September 2023
Pedro De Lima has been awarded a PhD for Research in Linguistics.
24 August 2023
Thesis title: Language Variation and Social Positioning in a Brazilian Terreiro.
Exciting fieldwork on Polynesian language Atara Imere
23 August 2023
QM Phoneticians at 20th ICPhS in Prague
17 August 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
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
Hagit Borer gives interview for Revista Linguistica
15 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
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
MA students accepted on PhD programmes at MIT and NYU
28 March 2022
Sophie Holmes-Elliott publishes a new article
25 March 2022
David Hall in The New Yorker
8 February 2022
Louis Strange publishes article
4 February 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
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
Sarah Kirk-Browne publishes her first article
17 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
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