News and Events

We are pleased to announce the publication of Languages of Gibraltar - 20 Linguistic Biographies by Mellen Press at the end of this year. This volume, edited by team members M.G. Sanchez, Elena Seoane, Cristina Suárez and Lucía Loureiro, contains the linguistic biographies of a diverse range of Gibraltarian men and women.

Exciting news coming from Gibraltar. The Gibraltar Government has just formed a national book council. The council intends to become a focal point in Gibraltar for all book and literature related activity. Its aim is to encourage writing and reading as well as to support writers, illustrators, and publishers, while working to promote Gibraltarian literature locally and internationally and offering advice to international academics interested in Gibraltarian writing, language and culture.

Hon Dr John Cortes, Minister for the Environment, Sustainability, Climate Change, Heritage and Culture of Gibraltar, and Davina Barbara, officer for Gibraltar Cultural Services, met with us at the Ministry on 24th January regarding our ICE-GBR project, the compilation of the Gibraltarian Component of the International Corpus of English. He offered his full support, which has granted us access to data that are necessary for the completion of ICE-GBR.

PhD students Heidi Douglas and Pablo Vilas successfully presented their work at the International Workshop Modelling the linguistic architecture of English: cognitive and empirical developments, organised by the LTVC group and the ELC research network. We are grateful for the rich feedback on their talks, namely Heidi's "Attitudes towards English as a Lingua Franca in Spain: A proposal" and Pablo's "A PhD in the making: Non-categorical morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes".