morphology

eWAVE -- the electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English

Submitted by Bernd Kortmann on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 06:25

Dear members of the Cyberling community,

upon the kind invitation by Emily Bender, this is to inform you that

FRIAS -- the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies -- and the Max-Planck-Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) proudly announce the availability of a fascinating new OPEN ACCESS online tool which can be exploited both in research and teaching on the grammars of varieties of English worldwide:

eWAVE -- the electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English

Submitted by Bernd Kortmann on Tue, 11/22/2011 - 06:07

Dear members of the Cyberling community,

upon the kind invitation by Emily Bender, this is to inform you that

Invitation from NSF/SBE for white papers describing grand challenges

The NSF Directorate for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) released last week a Dear Colleague Letter inviting members of the research community (individuals and groups) to submit by September 30th, 2,000-word-maximum white papers outlining what they think are "grand challenge" questions in the fields supported by SBE "that are both foundational and transformative". These contributions will be used to help the Directorate make plans to support research over the coming decade and beyond.