Frontispace of Vaugelas's Remarques sur la langue française (1647)

Le bon usage: using French correctly

01 January 2010

The purity and linguistic correctness of the French language has been closely guarded by the French for centuries. Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett is exploring the reasons behind this national preoccupation.

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Violin

Creative research on musical performance

01 September 2009

A pioneering research centre studying live musical performance as creative practice launches in the Faculty of Music in October with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

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River Dicle from Hasankeyf

Endangered dialects of Aramaic

01 September 2008

Current estimates suggest that a language dies every two weeks. Here, Geoffrey Khan describes the documentation of a group of dialects before they are lost forever.

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Members of the European Legal Development Project

Finding fault

01 February 2008

A multicentre project led by the Faculty of Law has reached its conclusion, having studied over a century's worth of European legal changes relating to liability.

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