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The Department is pleased to announce that Ph.D. alumna Erin Shay has just published (2021, with Brill): A Grammar of Giziga: A Chadic Language of Far North Cameroon . This is the first broad, detailed grammar of the Giziga language, which belongs to the Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language...

Prof. Kira Hall has received a research grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation , a major international foundation for anthropological research, for her project 鈥淎ccent Imitation on the Autism Spectrum.鈥� The project investigates a phenomenon noted in descriptions of autistic symptoms but rarely discussed in scholarship: the prolonged and often fluent...

Professor Chase Raymond was interviewed by 'CU 麻豆影院 Today', where he was asked about language, interaction, and culture during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article also highlights some of the sorts of questions that undergraduate majors in our new SAIL track -- Sociocultural, Anthropological, and Interactional Linguistics -- might be interested...

The Department is excited to recognize LING MA student Allen Hsiao for winning a Center for Humanities and Arts (CHA) summer fellowship to complete work on his MA thesis, 鈥淪emantics and Syntax in Polysemous Denominal Verbs: A Corpus-based Study鈥�. The study looks at denominal verbs that span one or more...

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce that, in addition to the general Linguistics major, we are now offering 4 official 鈥榯racks鈥� as specializations within the major. These tracks are: (1) Computational Linguistics , (2) Language and Cognition , (3) Sociocultural, Anthropological, and Interactional Linguistics (SAIL) , and (4)...

CU Linguistics Professor and chair Laura Michaelis is the co-author of a new English syntax textbook, Syntactic Construction of English (Cambridge UP, 2020). The book takes a novel approach to the study of sentence structures. It is the first formal syntax textbook based on Construction Grammar, a theoretical framework that...

The Department is pleased to announce that PhD student Olivia Hirschey Marrese has been invited as a Visiting Researcher in the Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture at UCLA. During this year-long post, Olivia will be attending specialized data sessions that investigate interactions at the intersection of race and social...

The Heritage Language Resources Hub development team at LESLLA -- including our own Dr. Rai Farrelly , Director of TESOL Programs in the Department of Linguistics -- is delighted to announce that the Hub is ready to explore on the LESLLA website ! The team has been working since early...

Congratulations to CU 麻豆影院's very own Claire Cummings , an undergraduate anthropology major who recently published an article in the Society for Linguistic Anthropology Blog. The article, "Deaf Community Deserves Greater Access to Medical Information During COVID-19," was the result of a project she began in Dr. Adam Hodges '...

Professor J Calder 's work straddles the fields of sociolinguistic variation and linguistic anthropology. Using sociophonetic and ethnographic methods, they explore the role of phonetic variation in the construction of marginalized identity in communities of queer/trans individuals and people of color. They are a member of the editorial board for...