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Linguistics / Literature - 23.11.2023
ERC Consolidator Grant for Professor Malte Rosemeyer
ERC Consolidator Grant for Professor Malte Rosemeyer
How did verbs such as "to go," which were originally reserved for describing specific actions, come to take on the more abstract grammatical role of signifying the future (for example, "voy a cantar"

Linguistics / Literature - 22.11.2023
Library opening hours over Christmas vacation 2023/24

Linguistics / Literature - 20.11.2023
Large Language Models pose risk to science with false answers, says Oxford study
Confused scientist: LLMs are currently treated as knowledge-bases, and used to generate information in response to questions.

Linguistics / Literature - 20.11.2023
Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita is brought to astonishing life on stage
Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita is brought to astonishing life on stage
Dr Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer in English, reviews a riotous new stage adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, known for its supernatural satire.

Media - Linguistics / Literature - 17.11.2023
Meet the UCL Student Journalists
Meet the UCL Student Journalists

Linguistics / Literature - Campus - 10.11.2023
’The Final Countdown.’ The Aesthetics and Politics of Apocalypse

Linguistics / Literature - History / Archeology - 02.11.2023
Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation - alive again
Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation - alive again
After a two-year project, the Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation (BOSLIT), which records Scottish literature in translation, has been revitalised and given a new digital home that can be accessed from across the globe.

Environment - Linguistics / Literature - 31.10.2023
Amitav Ghosh - how climate crisis, colonialism and migration are connected
Amitav Ghosh - how climate crisis, colonialism and migration are connected

Linguistics / Literature - 30.10.2023
Hopkins Bloomberg Center launches Authors & Insights series

Innovation - Linguistics / Literature - 26.10.2023
TERRATECH project closes with the graduation of 17 new master students in Smart Agriculture
Can AI grasp related concepts after learning only one? Can AI grasp related concepts after learning only one? Research shows new promise for "compositional generalization" in a recent article disseminated by Nature, whose authors are from New York University and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). Humans have the ability to learn a new concept and then immediately use it to understand related uses of that concept-once children know how to "skip," they understand what it means to "skip twice around the room" or "skip with your hands up." But are machines capable of this type of thinking?

Linguistics / Literature - Event - 24.10.2023
Interactive map and exhibition show Europe's literary links with London
Interactive map and exhibition show Europe’s literary links with London

Linguistics / Literature - History / Archeology - 18.10.2023
’Signs of the Future. East-West: Dialogues and Points of View’: a series of events focusing on Kazakhstan and Eastern Europe

Linguistics / Literature - 18.10.2023
Rare collection of Voltaire manuscripts makes its way to McGill University
This estate gift, entrusted to McGill by Professor Peter Lambert-David Southam, includes handwritten documents written by Voltaire himself The McGill University Library is now home to a rare collection of materials related to the prolific Enlightenment period philosopher, Voltaire (1694-1778).

Pedagogy - Linguistics / Literature - 18.10.2023
Pupils from across England to visit China with Mandarin Excellence Programme
Pupils from across England to visit China with Mandarin Excellence Programme

Linguistics / Literature - Psychology - 10.10.2023
Educator studies acculturation of Ukrainian children in Estonia
Dina Birman always has been interested in how immigrant children acculturate to a new country and language. As a 12-year-old immigrant herself, she had to learn English in Silver Spring, Maryland, and adapt to school in the United States after she and her parents left the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War.

Linguistics / Literature - Event - 10.10.2023
One of MIT's 'best-kept secrets' offers an outlet for creative writing
One of MIT’s ’best-kept secrets’ offers an outlet for creative writing

Social Sciences - Linguistics / Literature - 04.10.2023
Lifelong Indigenous language advocate dedicates degree to Tlingit heritage

Linguistics / Literature - 28.09.2023
Additional student spaces
Additional student spaces
We now have 105 brand new study spaces in the Main Library, that you don't need to book! Most of these are on Blue 1, but you will also find some new study booths and desks across the Library.

Linguistics / Literature - Life Sciences - 27.09.2023
Have you heard about the 'whom of which' trend?
Have you heard about the ’whom of which’ trend?
An MIT student and linguistics professor spot an emerging English phrase and examine what it tells us about syntax - but questions remain. Back in the spring of 2022, professor of linguistics David Pesetsky was talking to an undergraduate class about relative clauses, which add information to sentences.

History / Archeology - Linguistics / Literature - 26.09.2023
The University Library: not always warm and accessible
The University Library: not always warm and accessible
These days, people are hard at work in the University Library, and the books are neatly organised and categorised for everyone who wants to use them.

Linguistics / Literature - Campus - 26.09.2023
Exploring linguistic and human landscapes in translation
Exploring linguistic and human landscapes in translation

Art and Design - Linguistics / Literature - 20.09.2023
UCLA Film & Television Archive presents lineup of free cinema, TV treasures this fall
UCLA Film & Television Archive presents lineup of free cinema, TV treasures this fall

History / Archeology - Linguistics / Literature - 19.09.2023
Talk like a pirate – but how?
Talk like a pirate – but how?

Campus - Linguistics / Literature - 18.09.2023
Aoife Cantrill wins Best Doctoral Thesis Award

Linguistics / Literature - 07.09.2023
Voices from the war: What tweets reveal about refugee experience
What is on the minds of people fleeing the war in Ukraine? An interdisciplinary study by the University of Würzburg provides new perspectives.

Linguistics / Literature - Research Management - 05.09.2023
Semitic and Arabic Studies Scholar at Freie Universität Berlin to Receive ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council
Semitic and Arabic Studies Scholar at Freie Universität Berlin to Receive ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council

Linguistics / Literature - History / Archeology - 23.08.2023
’Een schip vol woorden’ exhibition on display in Utrecht University Libraries

Linguistics / Literature - History / Archeology - 23.08.2023
’Een schip vol woorden’ exhibition on display in Utrecht University Library

Linguistics / Literature - 23.08.2023
Speaking hypothetically
In new research, MIT linguists explore how human language handles leaps from the here and now. What's the winning number for next week's Mega Millions? If Julie knew the number, Leah would know the number. But you know that neither person holds this precious secret - and not just because Mega Millions hasn't been drawn yet.

Linguistics / Literature - 16.08.2023
Studying how children learn words with no meaning
Project leaders at the MIT Language Acquisition Lab say their research could shed new light on the nature of language learning.

History / Archeology - Linguistics / Literature - 14.08.2023
Discovering the 'Eurasian Miracle'
Discovering the ’Eurasian Miracle’
In the cluster of excellence Eurasian Transformations, led by Claudia Rapp (expert on Byzantine studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna), an international team of 31 academics i

Linguistics / Literature - Research Management - 09.08.2023
MIT Press’s Direct to Open (D2O) opens access to 82 new books in 2023

Environment - Linguistics / Literature - 07.08.2023
Q&A: Harryette Mullen's newest poetry brings us closer to nature
Q&A: Harryette Mullen’s newest poetry brings us closer to nature

Linguistics / Literature - 26.07.2023
On the Beach stage adaptation is poignant and life-affirming
On the Beach stage adaptation is poignant and life-affirming
Associate Professor Huw Griffiths, in English Literature, reviews On The Beach, a new Australian play by Tommy Murphy adapted from Nevil Shute's classic end-of-the-world novel.

Linguistics / Literature - 19.07.2023
From pen to picket line
From pen to picket line

Linguistics / Literature - 19.07.2023
Outlander author gives fascinating insight into her creative writing process

Campus - Linguistics / Literature - 13.07.2023
UQ Masters grad lands 'unicorn' job in publishing
UQ Masters grad lands ’unicorn’ job in publishing

Linguistics / Literature - Pedagogy - 11.07.2023
More than 7 million euros for Els Stronks and Maaike Bleeker from Dutch Research Agenda

Astronomy / Space Science - Linguistics / Literature - 10.07.2023
Tiera Fletcher ’17: Finding the purpose that propels us

History / Archeology - Linguistics / Literature - 28.06.2023
New methods for ancient texts
Magical texts of the Ancient Near East, Egypt and neighbouring regions are the focus of a new research group at the University of Würzburg.

Religions - Linguistics / Literature - 21.06.2023
New University of Glasgow project to explore ancient religious manuscripts
New University of Glasgow project to explore ancient religious manuscripts
A new £2.4 million project at the University of Glasgow exploring manuscripts and knowledge in multiple religions in partnership with world experts in their field.

Linguistics / Literature - 14.06.2023
Finding the heat

Art and Design - Linguistics / Literature - 14.06.2023
Cult TV, queer film and 'async': UCLA Film & Television Archive's free summer gems
Cult TV, queer film and ’async’: UCLA Film & Television Archive’s free summer gems

Linguistics / Literature - Social Sciences - 12.06.2023
Playwright Sigrid Edson wins Sudler Prize
Playwright Sigrid Edson wins Sudler Prize

Linguistics / Literature - 09.06.2023
More methodologies, better possibilities, greater insights
More methodologies, better possibilities, greater insights

Linguistics / Literature - 02.06.2023
No closed doors

Campus - Linguistics / Literature - 02.06.2023
Fulbright Grantees To Embark on Adventures Abroad

Linguistics / Literature - 28.05.2023
450 children in Brussels and Flanders receive VUB-ALEF certificate for Arabic classes

Politics - Linguistics / Literature - 26.05.2023
Seven Questions with... Nadia Dobrianska
Seven Questions with... Nadia Dobrianska

Linguistics / Literature - Innovation - 17.05.2023
Anniversary Exhibitions Trace Influence of Shakespeare through Time and Technology
This year, the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries presents two  exhibitions  to mark the quatercentenary (1623-2023) of Shakespeare's First Folio, a copy of which is held in the Libraries'  Special Collections.
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