Just re-read a grant rejection I got a year ago where I did not “provide sufficient information on research risks”
I work on verbs and pronouns in medieval languages
"On touche à un pronom, au système de la langue. Or, les pronoms n'ont pas changé depuis le IVe siècle." 🤯 j'ai littéralement écrit une thèse doctorale là-dessus. Non, c'est faux, y a PLEIN de changements & même si c'était vrai, c'est pas un bon argument.
Started YOU season 4. Can someone explain how Joe got hired as a *professor* with no supporting statement, journal article, conference presentation and no network? Joke aside, can we stop depicting professors as people who earn enough to live in a HUGE flat in the centre of Ldn?
Delighted to share that I’ve been offered a Departmental Lectureship in French Linguistics at
@UniofOxford
😊 I’m so looking forward to starting this new role!
I've just
#submitted
my
#PhD
thesis 🥳 it's been an amazing 3 years, my thesis is *exactly* what I wanted it to be. I've learnt so much. I'm so proud of myself. Thanks to my fantastic supervisors
@ladyven7
&
@raffifolli
, and
@UlsterUniPhD
. Now on to a well-deserved break in 🇫🇷
Monday - back to work. I’m somehow happy to have a
#PhD
to work on during those mildly insane times. I have a reason to get up in the morning and have that sense of achievement(ish) when I go to bed. Routine is key. Happy Monday everyone 😊
#phdlife
@AcademicChatter
@UlsterUniPhD
Exactly 1 year ago I submitted my thesis! 2022 has bit a tipping point in my life. I became a Dr, traveled to many conferences, made friends, got a lectureship in Oxford… I’m so grateful. During the first year of my PhD I was SURE I didn’t belong and was a recruitment error! 🤡
“[language X] is one of the richest languages linguistically” is a dangerous statement, on top of being false. And if your supporting evidence is “it’s complex because this word contains 26 characters”, you’re simply not doing linguistics
Last but not least, meet our second
#BUCLD48
Co-Organizer, Hayat AlThagafi (
@H_ALThagafiii
)!
"Arabic language is one of the richest languages linguistically. The longest word in Arabic is "أَفَاسْتَسْقَيْنَاكُمُوهَا"
pronounced: [ʔafəʔistasqajnakumuhuma], which means..." (1/2)
I’m extremely pleased to announce that I’ll be publishing my first book with
@OxUniPress
😊 The provisional title is “Clitic Placement in the History of French”
On this
#EuropeanDayofLanguages
, let's remind ourselves that there are 82 regional languages spoken in France, but la République officially recognises 1. That's just not ok
Exactly 5 years ago I was embarking on the ferry to spend 9 months in Northern Ireland. I had no idea I’d be a language assistant, a master’s student, a teaching assistant, a PhD student, a casual lecturer, in 2 unis. Now I’m packing up. It was the right place at the right time!
Now that we’re focusing on STEM (once again) and making sure English pupils study maths until they’re 18, can we do the same for languages? Or is that still not a proper discipline worth investing in
@Laelia_Ve
@Agnes_Henri
Ma thèse sera soumise pour examination le mois prochain, pas encore disponible donc, mais vous pouvez regardez les grammaires de l'ancien Fr (Foulet), les études de Gérard Moignet, d'Ans de Kok... Par exemple le pronom 'li' a disparu. Bien sûr, tout ça est bien après le 4e s...
When writing my PhD thesis I kept reassuring myself “it doesn’t have to be perfect, nobody will read it anyway”. Now I see that it has been downloaded 200+ times 🤡
So, unless I'm missing something, there will be 0 language assistant working in the UK starting next year. Surely that will help Modern Languages departments stay afloat
We’re delivering the biggest-ever cut in legal migration - protecting worker’s wages and prioritising British talent.
Today we’ve...
⬆️ Raised skilled worker visa salary thresholds by 48%
❌ Abolished the Shortage Occupation List and 20% going rate salary discount
I see this type of tweets a lot more recently. Clearly, it’s an enormous anxiety trigger to most PhD students, especially first gens. If you don’t publish four single-authored articles during your PhD you are *normal*
When I started working on pronouns I thought no one would ever care. Then the French came across a pronoun they didn't know and panicked, and anyway, here's me on the telly
Excuse me, hwæt? 🧐 "... the language, a descendant of those spoken by the first humans... N|uu is one of our last linguistic links to the earliest humans" What's the theory about *all* other languages then?!
@oliglesias
Mais oui, y en a plein! Alors je dis pas que le français est une langue pro-drop pour autant mais à chaque fois que je lis que c’est pas possible en français je saute au plafond
A play in two acts:
1) Uni of Aberdeen: “we’re closing the modern languages department because studying languages is 👎🏻”
2) The same Uni of Aberdeen *tweets in a language other than English*
Bidh luchd-obrach agus oileanaich a tha nam pàirt de chòisir Ghàidhlig Obar Dheathain a' nochdadh air a' phrògram 'Alleluia' air BBC Scotland Didòmhnaich seo tighinn bho 7.30f -
Absolutely thrilled to be awarded a John Fell Fund by
@UniofOxford
! This grant will allow us to investigate the effects of syntactic operations (like pro-drop) on cognition 🧠 I look forward to working on this project with two brilliant linguists,
@tomrwilliamson
and
@yuyan_xue
!
Just passed my
#ConfirmationViva
🍾 so lucky to work w great supervisors & to receive useful comments from the panel. I am enjoying my project so much. Belfast friends, celebrate w me tonight at the Sunflower around a cheeky pint
#PhDchat
#PhDlife
@UlsterUniPhD
I'm very happy to be joining the
@MFOxford
as Visiting Researcher. The MFO is a true hub of Franco-British academic collaborations, and I look forward to contributing to this vibrant community! 🇫🇷🇬🇧
It's my first semester coordinating a module (generative syntax) and today I received amazing feedback from the class. Couldn't be any prouder of myself 🙃
Delighted that my article 'Language in time: assessing Medieval French registers in a quest for accuracy in historical linguistics' is accepted for publication in the French Studies Bulletin 🍾🙌
@FrenchStudies
Currently reading through a chapter of my thesis and I’ve misspelt ‘shift’: “To account for this shit, ...” I hope my subconscious wasn’t actually thinking that
I struggle to get the rationale behind the high cost of a conference dinner - I’m looking at one that’s €70! I don't even spend that on my own birthday dinner. This trend towards exorbitant prices may create an impression of academia becoming elitist - or am I naive?
I struggle to get the rationale behind the high cost of a conference dinner - I’m looking at one that’s €70! I don't even spend that on my own birthday dinner. This trend towards exorbitant prices may create an impression of academia becoming elitist - or am I naive?
It's Holocaust
#RemembranceDay
. On 22/04/1945 my family was liberated from Sachsenhausen concentration camp. They were lucky to survive. To this day we still avoid the topic in the family - the scar is transgenerational. But we remember, and memory compels moral action
During the Autumn semester I'll be teaching an Open Learning class called "The 'How' and 'Why' of Language Change" at
@QUBelfast
. I'll introduce students to key concepts of language change. 👉 All welcome!
I treasure the PhD Community at
@UlsterUni
. Tonight we celebrated
@EilishBoschert
’s birthday 🎂 and we learnt together we were going under lockdown 🇬🇧. We’re (virtually) together, and it feels so good. 💙
@UlsterUniPhD
I had my last pre-submission supervision meeting with
@raffifolli
and
@ladyven7
today. ⭐️ What a pleasure it’s been to work with two inspiring women over the past few years! My thesis would be nowhere near what it is today without their help and guidance 🙏🏻
My first French-written article is out!
👉It's a diachronic & quantitative analysis of proclisis and enclisis with infinitives in French between the 12th and the 15th centuries. Exciting data to look at!
I received the most beautiful flowers for my birthday - tweeting them so everybody enjoys 💐
Did you know that ‘flower’ and ‘flour’ both stem from Old French ‘flor/flur’, meaning the best/finest part of something? 🤓
People who put deadlines for the first week of January: what is WRONG with you? Why put me in a situation where I have to work AND harass my referees to write/send a letter when we should be taking time off with our families? Aaaargh
Let’s not forget that
#Breton
is still not recognised as an official language in France, and regional bilingualism is still not legally enforced. France must (1) change the Article 2 of its Constitution to stop pretending monolingualism is the norm and (2) abide by the ECRML 🇫🇷🇪🇺
With their unique blend of Breton and electro-pop, Alvan & Ahez will represent France 🇫🇷 in
#Eurovision
2022 with Fulenn! 🔥
🌟 Find out more about the team from Brittany at !
I’m truly honoured to have been elected an executive member on the committee of Societas Linguistica Europaea. I look forward to working with my European colleagues and promoting the field further 😊
👉🏽 Attention:
- "Il y a deux pronoms" non, j'en compte des dizaines en français, regardez les paradigmes
- "le point médian blabla" ne pas confondre système d'écriture & langue (2 choses différentes!)
- "la langue est si belle" 🙄 cet argument est naïf & vide
It’s my Vivanniversary! For years, completing my PhD seemed like a far-off dream, but now it's hard to believe that a whole year has already passed since I achieved it. We were (and still are actually) an amazing team
@raffifolli
&
@ladyven7
! 🙌🏻 Thank you for everything!
#PhDchat
@Laelia_Ve
@Agnes_Henri
Quant au 'système' pron (un peu vague) c'est un peu la foire ds la diachronie du Fr. C'est tout sauf stable, on a des pronoms forts, conjoints, des pronoms faibles qui disparaissent; on les trouve tantôt avant le verbe, tantôt après. Je vs réfère aux travaux de Paul Hirschbühler
I stumbled across the French translation of some NHS fact sheets and the phonetic descriptions made my day. “Helf visotor” 🥰 (this is an official document)
Marc Olivier kicks off our PhD Researcher-led Initiatives programme with his session on ‘Introduction to LaTex’ at the Jordanstown campus. Thanks Marc!
#proudofUU
#skillsdevelopment
#RDP
(Senior) academics, what would you advise to someone who has just been awarded their PhD and who would like to stay in academia (I would love you to explain why below)
@AcademicChatter
@PhDVoice
@PostdocVoice
#phdlife
I’m very grateful to have been awarded the bourse doctorale and to connect with researchers in French studies in Ireland 🇮🇪 🇫🇷 merci énormément pour votre soutien
@adeffimembre1
@AmopaIrlande
😊
I meant to type “many thanks” to sign off on an email and when I pressed “sent” I saw my laptop had corrected it to “many tunas”. Thank god it’s Friday 🥴
Exactly 7 years ago I was deciding what to do with my life. My two options were acting and linguistics. My parents wanted me to have a “real, reliable job”, so I decided to study clitics in Medieval French instead of singing Grease Lightning 😬
Historical linguists, do you have examples of a construction that developed but was never "successful" in the grammar and was lost shortly after being spotted for the first time, say <4 centuries?
Delighted to have presented joint work with Anna Paradis to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Institute of Linguistics. We introduced a new formal analysis of clause size for restructuring in Romance (Cat, Spa, MidFre, Rom) arguing against the one-size-fits-all analysis
Students writing feedback along the lines of “the university should pay this person a decent wage. Hold onto some of your best staff” - I read you, and I love this. And yes.
We are pleased to present the termcard for the Oxford Historical Syntax Seminar. The seminar meets on Wednesdays in even weeks from 16.30-18.00 at the Clarendon Institute.
Our special issue with French Studies Bulletin (FSB) is out following the PG Conference 'Passages' in 2020! Look at the amazing contributions by these young scholars in French Studies,
@juliarsct
,
@loiseaulivier
,
@JayneDuff1
, Lang Wang and Nupur Patel.
@Dessouliers
Votre tweet idiot donne encore plus de valeur à
@TractLinguistes
en soulignant certaines règles absurdes de l’orthographe française, et en illustrant le comportement abject des « défenseurs de l’orthographe » ignares en matière de linguistique