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<font face="FuturaStd-Book" class=""><span class="">I am delighted to announce this year’s English Language and Linguistics Research Seminars at the University of Westminster. This year’s programme (attached) features talks on a diverse and fascinating range
of topics: from language learning in late medieval Western Europe to the linguistic style of Boris Johnson, obscene Language in the Oxford English Dictionary, and Vietnamese Pidgin French – and more!</span></font></div>
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<font face="FuturaStd-Book" class=""><span class="" style="font-style:normal">Seminars will take place on Blackboard Collaborate on even-week Wednesdays at 16:00 (UK time). The first seminar for this year is on 6 October, when Sophie Whittle (University of
Sheffield) will present a paper on “</span></font><font face="FuturaStd-Book" class="">Investigating the decline of verb-second (V2) in the history of English: what were the factors involved in driving language chan</font>ge?<span class="" style="font-family:FuturaStd-Book">”.</span></div>
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<span class="" style="">Course Leader for MA English Language</span></div>
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