Some thoughts about "defective" verbs and other fossils. Andarsene. Word has it that "sene" became a fixed form, attached to "andar" and...

For those who have to do the MLAT test at Oxbridge, I find it very odd that you don't want to do morphology and linguistics (and...

I have been doing OT through lock-down basing my studies on this book, A course in Phonology - 1999. I have the following problem: in p....

Descartes, 1635 ... avant qu'on le puisse voir imprimé ... Notice that clitic climbing WAS allowed in French in 1635. Being contemporary...

If only we could make communicative monkey noises like Dame Jane Woodall does in her video.

"Corbyn made Epstein sound more Jewish" says Metro (21.11.19) by pronouncing his name "epsh-tine" and not "ep-steen". An English comedian...

Reclaiming your ancestry via your "family name". All European names had their ancestry in some skill or chore. Most Europeans were...

A mixture of Jo Brand and The Hungry Games. To end a "Big Brother" game called Concentration with "un cocktail Molotov une m'elange...

Oh, Jeremy (H)unt ! It's more a case of Victoria Fromkin than Victoria Derbyshire these days. Why is the four-letter slip happening ?...

As coming to a university near you: the new "theory" in which only the verb is the predicate (move over Plato). More thoughts on this...

Verde que te quiero verde. More Lorca soon. Tip: You can make any member of your blog a writer so they can write posts for your blog....

Lecturers are mixing and not always matching theories and perceptions, proper orthodox syntax with bits of pragmatics and things that...

Doing a Marie Kondo like half of the world. In the next razzia, I think that Wix is going to go. They don't answer emails, don't even...

The Wix meeting was better than I thought, but they don't seem to follow up with information for the attendees, and even less to answer...

While some students think that scaffolding is what you have to contend with in our personal Gotham, others are doing excellent work in...

At UCL, when I asked whether I could mix generative grammar with sociolinguistics, one of my supervisors said that sociolinguists should...

Phonetics students: square brackets for PHONETIC transcriptions. Forward slashes for PHONEMIC transcriptions - I heard you say. But !...

PLEASE NOTE THAT I HAVE NEVER AGREED TO HAVE MY DATA MIGRATED TO THE NEW OWNERS OF THE TUTOR PAGES' SITE (IF THIS IS PERMANENT). THIS HAS...

The poor archi-phoneme has died a death - and I have been meaning to resurrect him since Xmas. My idea is based on the fact that there is...

This is not the season of good cheer if "coursework" is looming for the next term (Jan. 2018). First of all, diversion is not rewarded....