The first-hand testimonies of thousands of people who witnessed the bloody rebellion that paved the way for centuries of sectarian conflict in...
A project to document the unique language and culture of a remote Inuit community which is threatened by the effects of climate change is being...
An endangered Greek dialect spoken in Turkey has been identified by Dr Ioanna Sitaridou as a "linguistic goldmine" because of its closeness to a...
Close scrutiny of text is the bedrock of a research culture that spans practically the whole range of contemporary English studies.
The purity and linguistic correctness of the French language has been closely guarded by the French for centuries. Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett is...
A new project is recording and making accessible the endangered oral literatures of indigenous peoples before they are lost forever.
A new Grammar will be the first comprehensive description of the medieval and early modern Greek language.
At first glance, reasons for researching locations as different as the Arctic and Mexico are not self-evident. But comparison is at the core of...
Current estimates suggest that a language dies every two weeks. Here, Geoffrey Khan describes the documentation of a group of dialects before they...
Even though we might be able to hear someone speaking, our powers for understanding what is actually being said switch off as we go to sleep.
Innovative research in the Department of Linguistics suggests that dynamic features of speech could provide a clue to forensic speaker identification...