The workshop on corpora at #DiGS25 now features lightning talks on parsed corpus resources. First up is Lisa Gotthard (@lisigoth) @EdinUniLEL "Introducing the Parsed Corpus of Scottish Correspondence". https://t.co/9ArpitzUfw
📢CfP: The Fourth AMC Symposium
Theme: "Contact and Language Change" (we also accept talks/posters on any Historical Linguistics topic)
Abstracts: 30 Apr
Conference: 2-4 Dec
Hope to see many of you in Edinburgh!
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We are hiring! Penn Linguistics invites applications for a tenure-track position in Syntax at the rank of Assistant Professor. Please follow the link for details.
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Next #ichl26 talk in this session is by Lisa Gotthard @lisigoth, “The rise of do-support during Scots anglicisation: Insights from the Parsed Corpus of Scottish Correspondence”.
Next #DiGS24 talk is by Lisa Gotthard @lisigoth and Joel C. Wallenberg, “Three-way grammar competition during the Scots anglicisation: Insights from the Parsed Corpus of Scottish Correspondence”.
🎉Congratulation to our very own McIntosh-Patterson PhD Scholar @eyndhoven_sarah, who passed her viva with flying colours today, defending her thesis:
'Ane end to an auld song?’ Macro & Micro Perspectives on Written Scots in Correspondence during the Union of Parliaments Debates
Jobs, A Post-Doctoral Position in Language Contact and Change, University of Konstanz: A position is available in the historical syntax of English, conducting corpus-based research on change in non-finite clauses. The position is part of the DFG-funded… https://t.co/iG6fuduI2P
I am a final year student at Edinburgh University. This week I was told that due to industrial action, my 10k word dissertation will probably not be marked...ever.
I've been talking to staff & students - a quick 🧵 on the *utter chaos* going on at Edinburgh right now.
Delighted to announce that @gab_hodge will be joining us as Senior Lecturer in Sign Language Linguistics. This will be a big step forward for the study of sign languages and also further the @EdinburghUni @BSL_EdinUni plan to engage more fully with the Deaf community. @EdinUniLEL
#Scots people! Please help out my student @elizabethjg01 with her honours dissertation investigating perceptions of Scots, by filling out this survey (ca. 10 mins): https://t.co/VMN07qegw3
Reqs: Over 18, grown up in Scotland since before age of 5.