Welcome to the PhilSoc website
Detailed content is available by clicking on the links in the panel on the left. Current PhilSoc announcements are listed below.
Next PhilSoc meeting
Date: Fri 10 Feb 2012. Time: 4.15pm. Speaker: Dr Ilya Yakubovitch (State University of Moscow/University of Oxford). Title: Reconstructing multilingualism in the Ancient Near East. For details of the venue, please click on Meetings in the panel on the left.
Forthcoming articles in Transactions include:
"Against 'dummy DO': the 'low DO Aux' hypothesis", by José Luis González Escribano, "Grammar writing and provincial grammar printing in the eighteenth-century British Isles", by Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, "Evolution of the Burmese vowel system", by Nathan Hill, "Latin rhotacism: a case study in the life cycle of phonological processes", by Philip Roberts, "Between feminine singular and neuter plural: re-analysis patterns", by Francesco Rovai, "Morphological causatives in Old English: the quest for a vanishing formation", by Luisa García García, "Variation and change in Sark Norman French ", by Mari C. Jones, "The periphrastic perfect in Ancient Greek: a diachronic Mental Space analysis", by Klaas Bentein, "An internal reconstruction of Tibetan stem alternations", by Guillaume Jacques, "Definite article reduction and the Obligatory Contour Principle in York English", by Rebecca Roeder, "Moraic feet in Prakrit metrics: a constraint-based approach", by Andrew Ollett.
1 Feb 2012 Programme now available for Synchrony and diachrony symposium
PhilSoc Council is pleased to announce the programme for its first special event of the session, a two-day symposium entitled Synchrony and diachrony: variation and change in language history, to be held at Worcester College, Oxford on 16 and 17 March 2012. The event will provide students and early-career researchers with an opportunity to exchange ideas about their work. The Society is delighted to announce that Dr Ritsuko Kikusawa (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka) has agreed to lead a workshop session on the Friday. The event will conclude with a talk by Dr David Willis (Cambridge), ‘Reanalysis and language contact in the Syntactic Atlas of Welsh Dialects’, open to all participants as well as to other members of the Society and their guests. The programme is available for download from the panel on the left. (If you would like to attend this symposium and have not yet registered, please email Philomen Probert at philomen.probert@wolfson.ox.ac.uk.)
31 Jan 2012 Masters bursary scheme
PhilSoc Council is delighted to announce a new scheme to support individuals wishing to undertake study in linguistics/philology at Masters level. Bursaries of £4000 are available. The application form, which contains details of terms and conditions, the application process and deadlines, is available in various formats from the panel on the left.
1 Jan 2012 New member of Transactions' International Editorial Board
PhilSoc is pleased to announce that Liliane Haegeman (Ghent), John Hajek (Melbourne) and Bernd Kortmann (Freiburg) have joined Transactions' International Editorial Board. They replace Abdelkader Fassi Fehri (Rabat), Stephen Matthews (Hong Kong) and Terttu Nevalainen (Helsinki) who are standing down after four years, 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.
6 Dec 2011 Joint PhilSoc publication now available
PhilSoc Council is delighted to announce the appearance of Daniele Baglioni’s L'italiano delle cancellerie tunisine (1590-1703): Edizione e commento linguistico delle “Carte Cremona”, published in association with the Society by the Accademia dei Lincei. Joseph Anthony Cremona (21 Aug 1922 – 19 Mar 2003) was the first Lecturer in Romance Philology at Cambridge University. A fellow of Trinity Hall from 1966 until 1989, when he became an Emeritus Fellow, Cremona was a dedicated and inspiring teacher who encouraged generations of students to become specialists in Romance and theoretical linguistics. He joined PhilSoc in 1951 and was a member of Council from 1972 to 1979. In 1973 he founded the Romance Linguistics Seminar, an annual forum of British Romance linguistics which now attracts scholars from all over the world. Cremona is principally known for his series of studies on the history of Maltese, the Mediterranean Lingua Franca, and for his discovery of the use of Italian as a major international diplomatic and commercial language within the Ottoman Empire, at a period when it was generally believed that Italian enjoyed little international prestige or use outside the literary sphere. It is precisely to this discovery that the present volume is dedicated, and in publishing it in conjunction with the Accademia PhilSoc honours the memory of one of its most distinguished and devoted members.
14 Oct 2011 Seventh Robins Prize of the Philological Society
PhilSoc is pleased to announce the Society's seventh RH Robins Prize for an article written by one or more student associate members on a topic within the Society’s interests. The Society will award the £500 first prize together with a £250 second prize. Click on Robins Prize in the panel on the left for details. A pdf of an A4 poster publicising the Prize is also available for download from the panel on the left.
14 Sep 2011 PhilSoc programme for 2011-12 announced
PhilSoc Council is pleased to announce its programme of events for the 2011--12 session. The programme includes a number of special events. The first, a two-day symposium to be held at Worcester College, Oxford on 16 and 17 March 2012, is detailed above. The second is a discussion forum led by Prof. Peter Trudgill F.B.A. on the topic of Language--Community--Identity, and held at the British Academy on 11 May 2012. The final special event is a one-day workshop on the topic of Language contact in the West Germanic languages, 400--1200, to be held at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. Details are available by clicking on Meetings in the panel on the left.
6 May 2011 Special PhilSoc event in Glasgow in June 2011
PhilSoc Council is pleased to announce a special half-day event to mark the publication of the OED Historical Thesaurus. The event will take place at the University of Glasgow on the afternoon of Sat 18 Jun 11. Speakers include Christian Kay, Rosemarie Lühr and Roger Lass. The full programme is available by clicking on Meetings in the panel on the left. A registration form is also available from the panel on the left.
6 May 2011 New PhilSoc Council line-up announced
At the PhilSoc AGM held on 6 May 11, four Council members stood down, namely, Dr James Clackson, Prof. Heinz Giegerich, Dr Mari Jones and Prof. Rodney Sampson. The President thanked the retiring members on behalf of Council and the Society for their service, and welcomed their replacements, namely, Prof. Geoffrey Khan, Dr Lutz Marten, Dr Paul Russell and Prof. Rosanna Sornicola.
6 May 2011 PhilSoc Council announces winner and runner-up of sixth RH Robins Prize
At the PhilSoc AGM held on 6 May 2011, Council announced that Francesco Ciconte (Manchester) was the winner of the sixth RH Robins Prize of the Society and that Thomas Rainsford (Cambridge) was runner-up. Francesco and Thomas will receive cheques for £500 and £250 respectively upon submission of a revised version of their essays and acceptance for publication.
21 Feb 2011 PhilSoc Council members to serve on REF sub-panels
Following the announcement in November 2010 that PhilSoc Council member Prof. Kersti Börjars (University of Manchester) had been appointed as chair of the Modern Languages & Linguistics sub-panel in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), PhilSoc Council is delighted to report that three current and former Council members have been appointed to serve on REF sub-panels: Dr Lutz Marten (SOAS; Area studies); Dr Adam Ledgeway (Cambridge; Modern languages & linguistics); Prof. Jenny Cheshire (Queen Mary, University of London; Modern languages & linguistics).
1 Feb 2011 Postgraduate bursary scheme
The Society is happy to receive applications from postgraduate students for bursaries to cover the cost of: (a) giving a paper at a conference in the UK or overseas, or (b) carrying out fieldwork (of long or short duration) in the UK or overseas. Applicants should be student associate members of the Society (click on Membership in the panel on the left for details on how to join), and their funding applications should be supported by a letter from their supervisor. They should address their applications to the Society’s Hon. Treasurer, Dr. Philip Durkin (treasurer@philsoc.org.uk).
8 Nov 2010 Record number of entries for sixth Robins Prize of the Society
The sixth RH Robins Prize of the Philological Society for an essay written by a student associate member has attracted a record number of entries. Sixteen submissions had been made by the 1 November deadline. The winning entry is due to be announced at the Society's AGM in May 2011.
4 Oct 2010 November PhilSoc meeting in Bristol
In line with a now well established tradition, the Nov 2010 meeting of the Society will centre on a collection of papers to be delivered on a particular theme. The day-long event, to be held at the University of the West of England in Bristol, will focus on the topic "Language, region and economy". The full programme is available by clicking on Meetings in the panel on the left.
23 Jul 2010 New online platform for Transactions
Transactions of the Philological Society will, from 9 Aug 2010, be available from a new online platform. The Wiley Online Library will replace Wiley InterScience. Note that PhilSoc members have free online access to the entire Transactions back catalogue.
7 May 2010 New PhilSoc Council line-up announced
At the PhilSoc AGM held on 7 May 10, five Council members stood down, namely, Dr Fellerer, Prof. Maiden, Dr Watkins and Prof. Willi as regular members, and Dr Marten as Honorary Secretary. The President thanked the retiring members on behalf of Council and the Society for their service, and welcomed their replacements, namely, Dr Stephen Colvin (UCL), Dr Catherine MacRobert (Oxford), Dr Sandra Paoli (Oxford) and Dr Philomen Probert (Oxford) as regular members, and Dr Martin Orwin (SOAS) as Honorary Secretary. Council was also joined by Dr Kathryn Allan (UCL) as Membership Secretary.
20 Mar 2010 Further growth in Transactions readership
PhilSoc Council has now received the Society's annual publications report for 2009 from its agents, Wiley-Blackwell, and is pleased to report further indications that the impact of Transactions (TPhS) continues to grow: TPhS articles were downloaded a total of 11,523 times, a growth of 8.7% on 2008; over forty-six thousand TPhS article abstracts were downloaded; the most downloaded TPhS article in 2009 was Barry Heselwood's piece on R vocalisation, linking R and intrusive R in English; the number of individuals signing up for emailed TPhS table-of-contents alerts rose by a further 4%.
12 Feb 2010 PhilSoc symposium: Language, text & history: linguistics and philology in the 21st century
PhilSoc Council is pleased to announce the Society's plans for a two-day symposium at which students and young researchers will be able to exchange ideas about their work and to attend courses on philological subjects. The event will take place at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge on 19 and 20 March 2010, and the Society is delighted to be able to announce that Professor Andrew Garrett (Berkeley) has agreed to lead a teaching session on the Friday and deliver a paper on the Saturday entitled "Diffusion and descent in linguistic speciation". The event will also include a panel discussion, with panelists including Prof. David Denison, Dr Adam Ledgeway, Prof. Anna Morpurgo-Davies and Prof. Nick Sims-Williams.
12 Feb 2010 Sixth RH Robins Prize of the Philological Society
PhilSoc is pleased to announce the Society's sixth RH Robins Prize for an article written by one or more student associate members on a topic within the Society’s interests. The Society will award the £500 first prize together with a £250 second prize. Click on Robins Prize in the panel on the left for details. A pdf of an A4 poster publicising the Prize is also available for download from the panel on the left.
1 Jan 2010 New member of Transactions' International Editorial Board
PhilSoc is pleased to announce that Joseph Salmons has joined Transactions' International Editorial Board. Joseph is replacing Moges Yizegu who is standing down after three years, and will join the eleven existing members acting as an ambassador for Transactions in his part of the world, and thus further enhance the international profile of the journal.
11 Sep 2009 Latest PhilSoc Publication now available
The latest volume (Vol. 43) in PhilSoc's Publications series, The semantic predecessors of 'need' in the history of Engilsh (c.750-1710) (273pp) by Lucia Loureiro-Porto, 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.
6 Jun 2009 PhilSoc heads North again
PhilSoc Council is pleased to announce that its Nov 09 meeting will continue its recent tradition of taking place in the North. A one-day conference on corpus-based advances in historical linguistics will be held on Sat 14 Nov 09 at the University of York.
8 May 2009 Fifth RH Robins Prize of the Philological Society: winner announced
At the PhilSoc AGM on 8 May 09, the Society was pleased to announce Petros Karatsareas of the University of Cambridge as the winner of the Society’s Fifth RH Robins Prize. The prize-wining essay ‘The loss of grammatical gender in Cappadocian Greek’ is due to appear in issue 107.2 of Transactions of the Philological Society. The winner was greeted with applause and received warm congratulations from the President as well as a prize cheque for £500.
8 May 2009 New PhilSoc Council line-up announced
At the PhilSoc AGM held on 8 May 09, four Council members stood down, namely, Prof. Adamson (who becomes President), Dr Durkin (who became Treasurer in Jan 09), Prof. Huang (who joined the International Editorial Board of Transactions of the Philological Society in Jan 09) and Prof. Johnson. The President thanked the other retiring members on behalf of Council and the Society for their service, and welcomed their replacements, namely, Prof. Kersti Börjars (Manchester), Prof. Martin Durrell (Manchester), Prof. Andrew Linn (Sheffield) and Prof. Maggie Tallerman (Newcastle).
8 May 2009 All change at the top: New PhilSoc President announced
At the PhilSoc AGM held on 8 May 2009, Dr Keith Brown stood down as PhilSoc President at the end of a two-year period of office, and was elected as Vice-President. Prof. Sylvia Adamson, a former regular member of PhilSoc Council, was elected to succeed Dr Brown as President. The incoming President thanked the retiring President for his work as President and for his long-standing commitment to the Society.
8 May 2009 Suggestions to be invited for new PhilSoc Council members
At the PhilSoc AGM on 8 May 09, it was announced that members would be invited to submit suggestions for individuals who might be invited to stand for election to PhilSoc Council. Further details will be provided in due course.
11 Mar 2009 Linguistics within the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise
An analysis of how linguistics performed in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) has been carried out by the University Council of General and Applied Linguistics. The data show overall quantitative growth but comparatively disappointing qualitative results. The report can be downloaded by clicking here.
9 Mar 2009 Latest PhilSoc Publication now available
The latest volume (Vol. 42) in PhilSoc's Publications series, Metaphor and Metonymy: A Diachronic Approach by Kathryn Allan (255pp), 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.
13 Feb 2009 Further growth in Transactions readership
PhilSoc Council has now received the Society's annual publications report from its agents, Wiley--Blackwell, and is pleased to report further indications that the impact of Transactions (TPhS) grew during 2008: TPhS articles were downloaded a total of 10,597 times, a growth of 52% over two years; the most downloaded TPhS article in 2008 was Anna Siewierska's introduction to the special issue on impersonal constructions; the number of individuals signing up for emailed TPhS table-of-contents alerts rose by a further 27%.
16 Jan 2009 Invitation to submit proposals for topics for special issue of Transactions
Visitors to this page will know that Transactions of the Philological Society has in recent years had one special thematic issue per year. PhilSoc Council is now pleased to announcethat it would like to invite proposals for future special thematic TPhS issues from potential guest editors. Proposals should be addressed to the Editor in the first instance.
15 Jan 2009 20% discount on Wiley--Blackwell linguistics titles for PhilSoc members
The Society is pleased to announce that all PhilSoc members now benefit from a discount of 20% on the list price of any item in the Wiley--Blackwell linguistics catalogue, available here.
1 Jan 2009 New members of Transactions' International Editorial Board
PhilSoc is pleased to announce the names of two new members of Transactions' International Editorial Board: Yan Huang (Auckland) and Randy LaPolla (La Trobe). Yan and Randy replace Jay Jayaseelan and Nick Evans who are standing down. The new members of the Board will join the ten existing members and act as ambassadors for Transactions in their respective regions, and thus further enhance the international profile of the journal.
1 Jan 2009 New PhilSoc Honorary Treasurer
PhilSoc Council is pleased to announce that Dr Philip Durkin has agreed to take over from Prof. Martin Durrell as Honorary Treasurer of the Society. Council wishes to record its heartfelt thanks to Martin for his work over more years than most of us can remember.
7 Jul 2008 Entire back catalogue of Transactions now available on line
PhilSoc is pleased to report the successful completion of its project with Wiley--Blackwell to digitise the entire back catalogue of TPhS, which has now been made available online via the Wiley InterScience delivery platform. (This service is free of charge to PhilSoc members, for whom access is available using a password which can be obtained from Wiley-Blackwell (e-mail: customerservices@blackwellpublishing.com) citing the delivery number printed on the address label of "Transactions".) The catalogue goes all the way back to Volume 1, Issue 1, published in January 1854, containing "Attempt at an explanation of some Difficulties in the currently received account of the Battle of Marathon" and "On some Greek Lyrical Metres".
31 Mar 2008 Further growth in Transactions readership
PhilSoc is pleased to report further indications that the impact of TPhS grew during 2007: the total readership of online TPhS articles increased by 61%; the number of individuals signing up for email table-of-contents alerts rose by 14%; institutional circulation rose by nearly 9%.
11 Feb 2008 PhilSoc meeting minutes now available for download
The minutes of PhilSoc's ordinary meetings and AGMs will in future be available for download from the PhilSoc website. Please click on Meetings in the panel on the left; the minutes of the most recent meeting are available in the panel on the left of that page, while the minutes of previous meetings are available from the bottom of the page.
1 Jan 2008 New members of TPhS's International Editorial Board
PhilSoc is pleased to announce the names of six new members of Transactions' International Editorial Board: Stephen Matthews (Hong Kong), Nick Evans (ANU), Donka Minkova (UCLA), Michela Cennamo (Naples), Abdelkader Fassi Fehri (Rabat), Terttu Nevalainen (Helsinki). The new members of the Board will join the six existing members and act as ambassadors for Transactions in their respective regions, and thus further enhance the international profile of the journal.
10 Dec 2007 2008 reprint of 1934 Transactions essay by J. R. R. Tolkien
An essay by J. R. R. Tolkien, 'Chaucer as a philologist: The Reeve's Tale', which originally appeared in Transactions in 1934, will be reprinted in volume 5 (spring 2008) of Tolkien Studies. For details, please click here.
23 Nov 2007 World French Linguistics Congress
PhilSoc is pleased to announce its support for the first World French Linguistics Congress, organised by the Institut de linguistique française and taking place in Paris 9--12 Jul 08. The Congress includes eight plenary lectures, 140 selected papers and 300 poster presentations across twelve themes. The Congress also includes a dedicated poster session for early-career researchers. The Congress website can be accessed by clicking here.
25 Oct 2007 150th anniversary of Trench's seminal paper read to PhilSoc
Nov 2007 marks the 150th anniversary of the reading of one of the most important papers ever to be read to PhilSoc: Richard Chenevix Trench's 'On some deficiencies in our English dictionaries', widely regarded as having created the impetus which ultimately led to the compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary.
17 Jul 2007 PhilSoc heads North again
PhilSoc will this year once again be holding its Nov meeting in the North. Following a number of biennial Nov meetings in Manchester, and last year's Nov meeting in Edinburgh, the Society will travel to Yorkshire and meet in Sheffield. PhilSoc looks forward to seeing many of its northern members on Fri 16 Nov.
4 Jul 2007 Fifth RH Robins Prize of the Philological Society
PhilSoc is pleased to announce the Society's fifth RH Robins Prize for an article written by a student associate member on a topic within the Society’s interests. In a departure from previous Prizes, the Society will award the £500 first prize together with a £250 second prize. Click on Robins Prize in the panel on the left for details.
11 May 2007 All change at the top: New PhilSoc President announced
At the PhilSoc AGM held on 11 May 2007, Prof. Nicholas Sims-Williams stood down as PhilSoc President at the end of a four-year period of office, and was elected as Vice-President. Dr Keith Brown, formerly PhilSoc Publications Secretary and editor of Transactions of the Philological Society, was elected to succeed Prof. Sims-Williams as President. The incoming President thanked the retiring President for his work as President and for his long-standing commitment to the Society.
11 May 2007 New PhilSoc Council line-up unveiled
At the PhilSoc AGM held on 11 May 2007, four Council members stood down, namely, Prof. Beal, Prof. McMahon, Prof. Roberts and Dr Willis. The President thanked the retiring members on behalf of Council and the Society for their service, and welcomed their replacements, namely, Prof. Wendy Ayres-Bennett (Cambridge), Dr Philip Durkin (OUP), Dr Patrick Honeybone (Edinburgh) and Prof. Ruth Kempson (KCL).
11 May 2007 PhilSoc Council announces winner of the fourth RH Robins Prize
At the PhilSoc AGM held on 11 May 2007, Council announced that Louise Mycock (Manchester) was the winner of the fourth RH Robins Prize of the Society. Louise was presented with the £500 prize for her essay entitled "Constituent question formation and focus: A new typological perspective" which has been accepted for publication in Transactions, where it's expected to appear in issue 105.2.
21 Mar 2007 Latest PhilSoc Publication now available
The latest volume (Vol. 41) in PhilSoc's Publications series, Colonialism and Grammatical Representation: John Gilchrist and the Analysis of the 'Hindustani' Language in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries by Richard Steadman-Jones (280pp), 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.
1 Feb 2007 Latest PhilSoc Publication now available
The latest volume (Vol. 40) in PhilSoc's Publications series, Focus in Hausa by Melanie Green (290pp), 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.
18 Jan 2007 Blackwell Synergy relaunch
Blackwell Synergy, the online journals platform from Blackwell Publishing through which Transactions of the Philological Society is available, has been relaunched for 2007 with a brand new design providing easier navigation, faster loading times and improved access to research tools. In addition to a new look and feel, features have been repositioned to highlight key tools more clearly so that you can make the best use of journals.
31 Dec 2006 International Editorial Board for Transactions
PhilSoc is pleased to announce the names of the founding members of Transactions' International Editorial Board: Prof. Cynthia Allen (Australian National University), Prof. Jan Terje Faarlund (Oslo), Prof. Jay Jayaseelan (Hyderabad), Prof. Frans Plank (Konstanz), Prof. Don Ringe (Pennsylvania) and Prof. Moges Yigezu (Addis Ababa). The members of the International Editorial Board will act as ambassadors for Transactions in their respective regions, and thus further enhance the international profile of the journal.
17 Nov 2006 Record number of entries to RH Robins Prize
PhilSoc is delighted to announce that the fourth running of the Society's RH Robins Prize has attracted record levels of interest. A total of twelve entries have been received, more than twice as many as last time. The winner is due to be announced at the Philsoc AGM in May 2007.
1 Oct 2006 New electronic editorial office for TPhS opens
The new electronic editorial office for Transactions of the Philological Society is now open. Not only can potential authors and reviewers register as users, authors are now able to submit manuscripts using the new facility. Please click here to register. The editorial process for all new manuscripts, from submission through refereeing to publication, will now be handled online. The system, Manuscript Central from US company ScholarOne, will allow authors, reviewers and editors to use the same web-based interface when dealing with manuscripts. The system is expected to simplify the process for all involved.
20 Sep 2006 PhilSoc heads North of the border
In a break with recent tradition, PhilSoc will be holding its Nov meeting at the University of Edinburgh. For some time now, the Society has held a biennial meeting in Manchester; the Edinburgh meeting therefore represents a further move to extend coverage northwards. PhilSoc looks forward to seeing many of its northern members on Fri 17 Nov.
6 Jul 2006 PhilSoc Vice-President elected British Academy Fellow
PhilSoc is delighted to announce that Vice-President Professor Nigel Vincent was elected a Fellow of the British Academy at their AGM on 6 July 2006.
20 Apr 2006 New online submission to TPhS
PhilSoc and Blackwell Publishing Ltd have agreed to set up an online manuscript-management system for Transactions of the Philological Society. The system, Manuscript Central from US company ScholarOne, will allow authors, reviewers and editors to use the same web-based interface when dealing with manuscripts. The system is expected to simplify the process for all involved.
1 Feb 2006 New Publications Secretary
As of 1 Feb 2006, Dr Delia Bentley joins Professor Andrew Linn and Dr Paul Rowlett as PhilSoc's new third Publications Secretary. Delia will edit PhilSoc's books series, the Publications of the Philological Society, while Andrew and Paul look after PhilSoc's journal, the Transactions of the Philological Society. Click on Books in the panel on the left for details.
24 Jan 2006 Century-old Transactions article digitised for AHRC project
Sections of an article by W. W. Skeat entitled "Nominale sive Verbale" and published in Transactions in 1906 are to be digitised as part of a major AHRC-funded research project called Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub. For details, please click here.
1 Jan 2006 New Publications Secretary
As of 1 Jan 2006, Professor Andrew Linn joins Dr Paul Rowlett as joint Publications Secretary. Andrew and Paul will edit PhilSoc's journal, the Transactions of the Philological Society. Click on Journal in the panel on the left for details.
31 Aug 2005 Death of Professor Murray B. Emeneau
It is with deep regret that PhilSoc announces that its Honorary Member, Professor Murray Barnson Emeneau, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., L.H.D., LL.D., D.Lit., F.B.A., died peacefully in his sleep at his home on Monday 29 August at the age of 101. A full obituary will appear in number 104.1 of Transactions.
6 May 2005 PhilSoc Council announces winner of the third RH Robins Prize
At the PhilSoc AGM held on 6 May 2005, Council announced that Sarah Turner (University College, Oxford) was the winner of the third RH Robins Prize of the Society. Sarah's essay was called "Post-verbal subjects in Early East Slavonic". Sarah will receive the £500 prize once a revised version of her essay has been received and accepted for publication in Transactions, where it's expected to appear in issue 104.1.
6 May 2005 Launch of www.philsoc.org.uk
PhilSoc's new website, www.philsoc.org.uk, was launched on 6 May 2005 to coincide with the Society's AGM. As well as incorporating all the features of the old site, the new site carries the distinctive PhilSoc logo and colour scheme. New features include a user-friendly file-download facility, and a facility allowing PhilSoc Publications to be ordered direct from the publishers. The new site has been built by DancingDog Web Design.