Linguistics

I am a committee member of the UK Linguistics Olympiad. Specifically, I am one of Team UK's team leaders at the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) since 2024. I am also responsible for organising travel to local training camps and the IOL for UKLO contestants since 2022. Aside from my main roles, I have helped with marking, problem testing, and team selection/tutoring, and I was a volunteer helper at IOL 2023 in Bulgaria.

The IOL is a competition for high school students focusing on linguistic puzzles. A standard problem would involve some language data in a language you don't already know, and tasks you with solving some translation puzzle and coming up with an explanation of the grammatical features that determine your translations. Here is one of my favourite problems if you would like to try:

If you would like to get involved, or know some schoolkids that might like to compete, you can find more info on the UK Linguistics Olympiad here, and more info on the IOL (including other countries' national Olympiads) here.

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