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Ambrocio Guti茅rrez Lorenzo joins 欧美口爆视频 Linguistics faculty

May 17, 2021

The 欧美口爆视频 Department of Linguistics is pleased that Dr. Ambrocio Guti茅rrez Lorenzo will join our faculty in Fall 2021 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Guti茅rrez Lorenzo earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in 2021, having earned his MA in 2014 at the Centro de Investigaciones y...

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2021 Linguistics Undergraduate Research Awards (LURA) announced!

May 14, 2021

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce the recipients of our 2021 Linguistics Undergraduate Research Awards , also known as LURA . Each spring, the Department of Linguistics invites faculty, GPTIs, and TAs to nominate students in their classes (both introductory and advanced) who have authored outstanding essays and/or...

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欧美口爆视频 Linguistics major Evi Judge wins 2021 David S. Rood award

May 10, 2021

欧美口爆视频 Linguistics major Evi Judge has won the 2021 David S. Rood award in Linguistics ! Awarded since 2017, the prize recognizes outstanding academic achievement, as well as potential for further success in linguistics. The scholarship is named in honor of Professor David Rood , who retired in 2016 after...

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Prof. Kira Hall selected as recipient of "The Best Should Teach" Gold Award

May 7, 2021

The 'Best Should Teach' committee has selected Prof. Kira Hall as a recipient of the Best Should Teach Gold Award! With this award, Prof. Hall joins an elite group of dedicated scholars, as the committee recognize only those individuals who demonstrate the exceptional talents in teaching and academic leadership that...

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Prof. Rebecca Scarborough receives Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award

April 28, 2021

The Department of Linguistics has the pleasure of congratulating Prof. Rebecca Scarborough , who has just received an Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award from the Graduate School, in recognition of her work as both a dissertation advisor and graduate director. The award letter from Dean Adler reads in part: I am...

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Frajzyngier and Butters publish 'The Emergence of Functions' with OUP

April 20, 2021

The Department is pleased to announce that Professor Zygmunt Frajzyngier and recent Ph.D. graduate Marielle Butters have recently published The Emergence of Functions in Language , with Oxford University Press (2020). This book: Explores the central question of why languages differ in the meanings expressed by their grammatical systems Outlines...

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Erin Shay publishes the first grammar of Giziga (North Cameroon)

April 20, 2021

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 awarded Wenner-Gren Foundation grant!

April 16, 2021

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...

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Prof. Chase Raymond interviewed by '欧美口爆视频 Boulder Today'

April 14, 2021

Professor Chase Raymond was interviewed by '欧美口爆视频 Boulder 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...

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MA student Allen Hsiao wins CHA summer fellowship!

April 13, 2021

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...

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