About this LARG website

This website was designed and created by Peter L. Patrick, working under the very helpful guidance and expertise of Web Development Officer Janine Morgan of the University of Essex Web and Learning Technology staff (who did all the difficult technical bits!). Content and appearance advice came from members of the LARG Advisory Panel and Convenors, especially Diana Eades and Maaike Verrips.

The website is initially funded by the ESRC LADO Network through Research Seminars grant (RES-451-26-0911), in order to disseminate results of the ESRC LADO Network series of meetings, and is to be maintained by donations from LARG members. You can join LARG to help support it.

Photo Credits

Most of the photos and illustrations on the website, including a couple of maps, come from the professional agency istock. A few are, as far as I am able to determine, public domain images.

Language Map Credits

We have used language maps in order to illustrate something well-known to empirical linguists, namely, how complex the distribution of speakers and languages is across both social and geographical space and place. This complexity is a master fact informing the caution with which scientifically-trained linguists characteristically approach LADO.