News and Events

On 3 December Cristina Suárez-Gómez (University of the Balearic Islands) gave a talk at the Faculty of Philology and Translation entitled “Structural creativity in multilingual countries." In her presentation she examined structural creativity in World Englishes, i.e. varieties of English which have emerged in multilingual countries. Basing the analysis on data from the International Corpus of English (http://ice-corpora.net/), she explored relative clauses in the spoken language of the Englishes spoken in Hong-Kong, India and Singapore.

We are happy to announce that on 21st September 2015 the University of Gibraltar will open its doors and enrol its first cohort of students. This new higher education institution will bring many new opportunities for Gibraltar and the communities it will serve.

At a recent meeting, the Press Syndicate of Cambridge University Press formally confirmed the appointment of our colleague Elena Seoane as Review Editor of the journal English Language and Linguistics (ELL), for a four-year term. She succeeds Bas Aarts, Professor of English Linguistics at University College London and Review Editor of ELL for the past four years.

Pre-conference workshop organized by Elena Seoane (Univ. of Vigo), Cristina Suárez (Univ. of the Balearic Islands) and Valentin Werner (Univ. of Bamberg) within the 35th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 35), University of Nottingham.