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Next PhilSoc meeting
Saturday 8 June, Annual General Meeting (Downing College, Cambridge): Professor Sylvia Adamson (University of Sheffield), ‘Re-philologising historical linguistics’. The meeting begins at 4.15 with tea available from 3.45.
Forthcoming articles in Transactions include:
"Between subject enclitic and agreement marker: the second person endings in Sicilian", by Silvio Cruschina and Melanie Rinollo; "On morphological realignments in Old English root nouns", by Elżbieta Adamczyk; "On the distribution and merger of is and bið in Old and Middle English", by Peter Petré; "‘Giving’ and ‘making’ in early runic epigraphy", by Bernard Mees; "Iterated modal marking and polarity focus in Ancient Greek", by David Goldstein; "Alveolopalatalization in Central German as markedness reduction", by TA Hall; "The morphology of the Zulu locative", by Andrew van der Spuy; "A note on voicing alternation in the Tibetan verbal system", by Nathan Hill; "The Personal agreement system of Zbu rGyalrong (Ngyaltsu variety)", by Xun Gong; "Clitic doubling in vernacular medieval Greek", by Jorie Soltic; "quidem as a marker of emphatic polarity", by Lieven Danckaert; "The distribution of variants of Old English by, for and between", by Rhona Alcorn; "Historical pragmatics: evidence from the Old Bailey", by Dawn Archer; "Grammatical Profiles and Aspect in Old Church Slavonic", by Hanne Martine Eckhoff and Laura Alexis Janda; "Accented clitics in the Ŗgveda", by John Lowe; "Old Norse as an NP language: With observations on the Common Norse and
Northwest Germanic runic inscriptions", by Eric Lander and Liliane Haegeman; "Diachronic change in verbal agreement patterns with la majorité", by Anna Tristram.
15 Jan 2013 Language in Schools 2013
Following the successful residential course for sixth formers, which PhilSoc sponsored at Villiers Park in 2012 (‘Philology: the Language Learner’s Toolkit’), the Society has made another grant to Villiers Park to support the development of a set of related on-line extension activities for use in schools. A Working Party of Council members will be actively involved in the design and delivery of these materials, which it is hoped will be available for the start of the Autumn Term 2013.
15 Jan 2013 UK Linguistics Olympiad
The Society has also made a donation to the UK Linguistics Olympiad committee to support their work in fostering language awareness and skills in schools in 2013. The Council of the Society is particularly interested in the committee’s plans for increasing the participation of state school pupils in Olympiad activities and for enhancing the links between schools and universities.
12 Jan 2013 Masters bursary scheme
PhilSoc Council is delighted to announce that this year's competition for Masters Bursaries is now open. It is intended to support individuals wishing to undertake study in linguistics/philology at Masters level in the academic year 2013-2014. Bursaries of £4000 are available. The application form, which contains details of terms and conditions, the application process and deadlines, is available in doc and rtf formats from the panel on the left..
1 Jan 2013 New member of Transactions' International Editorial Board
PhilSoc is pleased to announce that Angela Ralli (Patras), Umberto Ansaldo (Hong Kong) and Marianne Mithun (UCSB) have joined Transactions' International Editorial Board. They replace Jan Terje Faarlund, Don Ringe and Yan Huang who are standing down, and will join the nine existing members acting as ambassadors for Transactions in their parts of the world, and thus further enhance the international profile of the journal.
18 Oct 2012 PhilSoc Masters Bursaries 2012–13
PhilSoc Council is delighted to announce that the PhilSoc Masters Bursaries for this academic year have been awarded to Tom Bolton (Cambridge, formerly at UCL), Marco Condorelli (Sheffield), and Sarah Foxen (York, formerly at Exeter). It has also been agreed to run another competition for next year; details will appear on the website in due course.
29 Aug 2012 Proceedings of the Philological Society (1842-53) now fully digitised
The Proceedings of the Philological Society, the forerunner to the Transactions of the Philological Society published between 1842 and 1853, have been digitised and are available, free of charge, via the Wiley Online platform.
24 July 2012 Special PhilSoc event on Language, Music and Interaction
PhilSoc Council is delighted to announce a special one-day workshop, to be held at Queen Mary University of London's Mile End campus on Friday 9 November 2012, on the topic of language, music and interaction. Further details of the event, including the registration form, are available by clicking here.
9 Jun 2012 New PhilSoc Council line-up announced
At the PhilSoc AGM held on 9 June 2012, three Council members stood down, namely, Prof. James Blevins, Prof. Geoffrey Khan and Dr John Penney. The President thanked the retiring members on behalf of Council and the Society for their service, and welcomed their replacements, namely, Prof. Joan Beal, Prof. Guohua Chen, Dr Adam Ledgeway and Dr Graeme Trousdale.
6 Jun 2012 Latest PhilSoc Publication now available
The latest volume (Vol. 45) in PhilSoc's Publications series, Language, society and identity in early Iceland (188pp) by Stephen Pax Leonard, is now available. PhilSoc members receive Publications free as part of their annual £10 subscription. Membership details are available by clicking on Membership in the panel on the left. Non-members can order Publications direct from the publisher by clicking on Books in the panel on the left.
26 Mar 2012 PhilSoc workshop in Utrecht: Language contact in the West Germanic languages, 400-1200
PhilSoc is now able to provide further details of the one-day workshop which is being jointly organised with the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS (UiL OTS) on the topic of Language contact in the West Germanic languages, 400--1200. The event will be held at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands on 15 June 2012. Please click here.