Adita Lahiri (@ox.ac.uk) is our next speaker 🤩
She will present a model of phonological variability and change, based on diachronic, psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic evidence from English, German, Swedish, and Bengali.
🔗 www.dcl.fu-berlin.de/veranstaltun...
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
I'm very proud to share that the US edition of A History of England in 25 Poems (Pegasus Books) has a *starred review* from Kirkus. (For friends not in the US / publishing worlds, this is apparently a Big Deal, and I'm very grateful.) #book #history
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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Friday! The Toronto Old English Colloquium returns with Lindy Brady of Edge Hill University's "Multilingualism, Old English, and the Viking Age". RSVP to attend in person at CMS or virtually via Zoom, April 17, at 2:30 pm.
uoft.me/TOEC2026 #oldenglish
The Old English Translation of the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri | Convegno internazionale
13 Aprile 2026, 09:00 - 14 Aprile 2026, 13:00
dllcs.unibg.it/it/eventi/th...
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Explore the last 3 volumes of The New Cambridge History of the English Language, coming soon! #LangSky 🐦🐦
Vol 4: Britain, Ireland & Europe https://cup.org/4mmkKkn
Vol 5: North America & the Caribbean https://cup.org/41WkqiI
Vol 6: Africa, Asia, Australasia & the Pacific https://cup.org/4sqYOWt
English Linguistics and the Age of Data: How Digitalization Is Rewriting the Rules', a new blog by Mikko Laitinen and Paula Rautionaho, author of DATA-INTENSIVE INVESTIGATIONS OF ENGLISH
📚 https://cup.org/4dssnDe
Now available on the #ISLE YouTube channel: Robert Fuchs, Rotimi O. Oladipupo, Danica Salazar & Guyanne Wilson on "Historical Corpora in World Englishes" youtu.be/2KqWMpkVz5Q
#WorldEnglishes #EnglishLinguistics
I am pleased to share that I have signed a contract with Cambridge University Press to write “The End of Roman Britain and the Arrival of the Saxons,” which I have been approached to write by the editors of their series “Cambridge Elements in the Late Antique World”.
Claxon 📣 for English lit. graduates: here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden led by the fabulous Dr Lotte Fikkers, and co-supervised by yours truly, on literary representations of wardship in early modern English drama.
bit.ly/4bEeH7a
Apply by 31 May 2026; starting date 1 Jan. 2027
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One of my favourite things to find in historical letters are scribbles by very small children: "Mrs Ann is last [in presenting her service] because she will haue itt in her own carictteer" ✍️
📢 #CfP #medievalsky #OldEnglish
📚 36th International Conference of SELIM (SELIM 36)
🏫 University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo
📅23rd-25th September 2026
‼️Abstract deadline: 30 March 2026
💻Further details: eventos.uclm.es/go/SELIM36
Whoa! My abstract for a diachronic sttudy of "antisemitism" as a "hard word" was accepted for the International Conference on Historical Lexicoraphy and Lexicology. I'd have thought they wouldn't touch that with a 10 ft pole. Huge thanks to @joeinaustralia.bsky.social
ichll-2026.sciencesconf.org
A TALE OF TWO DICTIONARIES
(one in London, one in Paris)
The first book printed in England with the title 'dictionary' was in 1538.
The first book printed in France with the title 'dictionnaire' was in 1539.
And they were both translations of the same Latin dictionary.
Registration for the next #ISLE summer school in Uppsala is still open until April 30:
Theme: "English in transition - Socio-cultural encounters across time and space"
Dates: 7–13 June 2026
Organized by Merja Kytö & Eric Lander
www.uu.se/en/departmen...
#EnglishLinguistics #HistoricalLinguistics
I wrote this article about the Oxford English Dictionary using The Other Place as a source of language evidence -- the most cited single source (if that's what it is) in updates since 2018. thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca/published-tw...
📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖 Unravelling Old English Riddles with Year 7s at the Bodleian’s Weston Library
✍️ Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social
📝 TOEBI Newsletter 2025, vol. 41
📲 www.toebi.org.uk/wp-content/u...
#OTD 177 years ago, Karl Brugmann (1849–1919) was born 🎂 An expert on Sanskrit and comparative Indo-European linguistics, he was one of the most prominent Neogrammarians, who argued that sound laws operate without exceptions. Brugmann’s Law is named after him.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE @unileiden.bsky.social
www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3592...
Just signed the contract for the 2nd edn of my CUP textbook ‘Construction Grammar: The Structure of English’. Thank you to the 5 anonymous reviewers who supported my revision plan! And, of course, thank you so much to Helen Barton & the entire team at CUP for all their wonderful help & support!
New Cambridge Element, Optimizing Decision Trees for the Analysis of World Englishes and Sociolinguistic Data, by Sarah Buschfeld and Claus Weihs, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at
https://cup.org/4sc5itg
Evolving Englishes on a bookstand
Cake with space puffin: Happy birthday Claudia
Secret mission was successful! We celebrated Claudia Lange's 60th birthday & delivered the Festschrift "Evolving Englishes" (out now with Routledge) 🎉
Plese repost & share! *THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES*, a free, scholar-produced onlyne resource for teachinge and learninge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level: opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
Research Assistant/Associate to play a key role in the ESRC/NSF-funded project, "INvestigating and Treebanking Scots And Yiddish Together (InTSaYT)" at Newcastle University @newcastleuni.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU472/r...
📢 The 2025 #TOEBI Newsletter is here‼️
💻 Available to download now from our website
🔗 www.toebi.org.uk/toebi-newsle...
✍️ Edited by Francisco J. Rozano-García and Claire Poynton-Smith
📝Featuring reports on the latest #OldEnglish pedagogical resources, the Kemble Lecture & book reviews.
#️⃣ #medievalsky
Opportunity for a PhD candidate in English linguistics. Please repost.
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
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The CMS Summer Latin Program is now taught exclusively online! Register for one of three levels to receive unmatched Latin instruction at U of T.
uoft.me/CMS-Latin
• May 11-July 23 - Beginning Latin
• May 5-June 26 - Level I Latin
• July 2-August 7 - Level II Latin
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 1
The opening of Beowulf from the unique surviving manuscript of the Old English text, beginning with a large initial 'H'.
Hwaet! The Beowulf manuscript (Cotton MS Vitellius A XV) is now back online.
You can consult the entire manuscript through the online catalogue:
searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...
📢 Deadline extended: 30 April 2026‼️
📜 Theme: All Kinds of People
📚 TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level.
🏫 Host: University of Nottingham
📅 Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026
#️⃣ #CfP #TOEBI #medievalsky #OldEnglish
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This just out: a Finnish-language collection of Old English literature. 'When the Swords Sang' includes two chapters I co-authored, and I also tried my hand at translating bits of the A-S Chronicle. Publisher: Gaudeamus.
