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Having just returned from a year spent documenting the language and culture of the remote Inughuit community of north-western Greenland, Dr Stephen...

Two Cambridge institutions, the Department of Linguistics and the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, have merged as of 1 August...

A decommissioned Land Rover ambulance will be home to Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥â€™s Dr Emily Lethbridge from December – as she begins an epic year-long...

Of the world's 6,500 living languages, half will cease to be spoken by the end of this century. //-->

An endangered Greek dialect spoken in Turkey has been identified by Dr Ioanna Sitaridou as a "linguistic goldmine" because of its closeness to a...

Close scrutiny of text is the bedrock of a research culture that spans practically the whole range of contemporary English studies.

At first glance, reasons for researching locations as different as the Arctic and Mexico are not self-evident. But comparison is at the core of...

Current estimates suggest that a language dies every two weeks. Here, Geoffrey Khan describes the documentation of a group of dialects before they...