Jamaican Family Search is a virtual genealogy library for Jamaica, developed by Patricia Jackson, which is particularly strong in 19th century material. Click here to go to the site: Jamaican Family ...

The Survey of English Usage carries out research in English language Corpus Linguistics, and was the first centre in Europe to undertake this type of research. From its inception in 1959, the Survey ...

Sadly, Randolph Quirk passed away at the age of 97 on 20 December 2017. Tributes to Randolph are being published on our Survey blog, where you can also add your own. This chapter is based on an ...

I regard it as the most fortunate accident of my career that when I went to study English at University College, I chanced upon a magic circle of leading scholars in the study of language. During my ...

These courses will be delivered via Zoom. English Grammar for Teachers and Teaching English Grammar in Context are also available as six-week courses on FutureLearn. We also deliver these courses as ...

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Emeritus Professor Jan Svartvik, Lund University, Sweden. Jan was born on 18 August 1931 in the county of Värmland in Sweden and died in Lund on ...

I was never in any doubt about which subject to follow at University – it had to be English, and it had to be a course where there was a language element alongside the literary. I very much wanted ...

In this episode, we explore the industrial regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. From 2014 until 2022, this was where Russia focused its war of aggression against Ukraine, killing and uprooting thousands of ...

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It has been suggested that pauses in speech occur at major syntactic boundaries. We are interested to see if this is the case in spontaneous speech. We are also interested in whether other linguistic ...

The 2025/26 funding call opens on 21 May 2025 and will clos11.59 pm (Singapore time), 21 June 2025. Other topics are not eligible, though UCL staff may explore alternative small funding via UCL Global ...