This page archives all past blog posts from my homepage.
The University of Manchester's Linguistic Society offered me the chance to give a little talk on language change ...
read moreI was invited to give a talk at the Linguistics Research Seminar at the University of Geneva and enthusiastically agreed ...
read moreThis year's Undergraduate Scholars used my Student-Transcribed Corpus of Spoken American English to investigate slang ...
read moreMA students of my directed reading module "Historical Syntax" have presented their research at a final poster presentation event. A recording of their talks is now available to the public...
read moreA new article on the Dictionary of Old English Progress Report is available on my Old-Engli.sh website...
read moreThe "Student-transcribed Corpus of Spoken American English" has profited greatly from the hard work of undergraduate students this semester and reached a size of over 150k words ...
read moreTwo of my papers have come out during the summer of 2022. Publish or perish, they say, so this is good news ...
read moreAs part of the University of Manchester's Undergraduate Scholars Programme, two students contributed to my spoken corpus project. I am grateful for their help...
read moreI was recently invited to give a guest lecture at UCLA. I recorded the lesson and decided to put it up on YouTube...
read moreI uploaded three undergraduate teaching sessions on using logistic regression for the analysis of syntactic changes. They are available for free for anyone who may be interested in them ...
read moreAdele Goldberg and Charles Yang had a fantastic discussion on linguistic generalisation at the LEL research seminar. A video of their discussion is now available...
read moreA video recording of a talk I gave for the Cambridge Linguistics Forum is now available ...
read moreI have written a summary article on the 2020 Dictionary of English progress report ...
read moreI will present my research on conjunct clauses in Old English at the Cambridge Linguistics Forum on February 3rd 2022 ...
read moreI have a new paper out! It's on the development of negative prepositional phrases like "in no way" in Middle English ...
read moreMy Undergraduate Scholars project "Conducting Research with Spoken Corpora" has come to a close. The final event took place online and was recorded. Hence, there is now a video that summarises the research findings ...
read moreTony has influenced my thinking as a linguist quite a lot. Sadly, he recently passed away. I put one of his talks up online as a way to remember ...
read moreI have finished the second addition to my Middle English parsed corpus this year. It’s a rhymed, thirteenth century saint’s life …
read moreThe International Conference on English Historical Linguistics has just come to a close. Because of the pandemic, it will likely be the only conference I go to this year, and I enjoyed it all the more for it ...
read moreI have been awarded £350 to digitise some Middle English texts for a project called "Studying linguistic changes in late Middle English - the medieval romance." I'm looking forward to working on this task ...
read moreI will be running an internship this summer funded by the University of Manchester careers service. The successful candidate will transcribe Middle English texts. If you're interested and eligible, why not apply ...
read moreI posted a news article on my "hobby website" www.Old-Engli.sh. The article is about thousands of new words that have recently been added to the Dictionary of Old English Corpus ...
read moreThe text “Siege of Jerusalem”, an alliterative poem of the late fourteenth century, has been added to the Parsed Corpus of Middle English Poetry (PCMEP). There are now more than 200,000 words in that text collection ...
read moreThe University of Manchester School of Arts, Languages and Cultures runs an extra-curricular programme for intellectually adventurous students called the "Undergraduate Scholars Programme." This year, I decided to lead one project myself. It's about doing research with spoken corpora and will start 10 February 2021 ...
read moreMy new website, www.richardzimmermann.com, has been launched. A lot of work is yet to be done, but I'm glad the project is finally underway ...
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