Linguistics Association of Great Britain

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The Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) is an association which claims to be the leading professional association for academic linguists there. [1]

The association's predecessor was the Germanist Jeffrey Ellis' Linguistic Circle at Hull University which became active in the late 1950s. It was renamed LAGB and had its first meeting of significance on 1 November 1959.

The association has published the Journal of Linguistics since 1964.

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References

  1. ↑ "LAGB" . Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "Department of Linguistics, David Adger". Queen Mary University of London. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "History of the LAGB" . Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "Prof Kersti Börjars | The University of Manchester". www.research.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  5. ↑ "History of the LAGB" . Retrieved 22 July 2016.


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