The Survey of English Usage
Quarterly Newsletter
September 2013
This newsletter is part of a series of quarterly newsletters from the Survey of English Usage, intended to keep the academic community and other interested parties informed about research in the Survey. The newsletter will be sent out in March, June, September and December. The March issue is the Survey’s Annual report.
News
I
am pleased to announce that the Survey was awarded Follow-On
Funding by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to
extend the Englicious platform into primary schools.
For more details of the project, see here.
Research
App development
The project Mobile Device Apps: A New Channel for UCL Knowledge Transfer Activities is described on the UCL Business website as a case study.
We have developed two additional apps on spelling and punctuation, and on academic writing.
More informationSurvey seminars during the autumn term
21 October 2013, 4 pm (room t.b.a.) Seth Mehl, Keywords within a model of semantic change: vagueness, polysemy and the urgency of the debate.
Marina Lambrou (tbc.)
Bas Aarts
Director
September 2013
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