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Here’s the last of our student post-series on linguistic landscapes! Hope you enjoyed this short glimpse into one of the topics dealt with in the BA programme and the different blog posts…

November 7 commemorates the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, by which the Spanish king Phillip IV transferred the territories of the County of Rosselló/Roussillon and parts of the…

The Parliament of Catalunya passed legislation on November 9th, 2015, declaring its intention to start a process that will lead this Spanish Autonomous Community to political independence from Spain. The close vote…

Just to give a little insight of the goings-on in the world of linguistics: Lately there has been a discussion on where the Australian accent originated, some claim it would have come…

On Saturday October 24th, citizens and politicians got to the streets in support of several local languages spoken within French territory. The simultaneous demonstrations took place in Montpellier (for Occitan and Catalan),…

Here’s the second student blogpost in our series on ‘Linguistic landscapes’, this time on the presence of the Groninger dialect, by Anna Huiting (read the first post here). Blog Post on the…

REBLOG: Amber Nota, who is a PhD at our Department of Frisian Language and Culture, wrote this excitant blog entry at her project’s website (https://sites.google.com/site/multilimelo/blog). Happy to reblog! “The disappearance of the…

Here’s the first in a series of student blog posts on linguistic landscapes! (Cool term, but what does it mean?) Linguistic landscapes is all about the mapping of the language around you.…