Eleanor Sand

PhD Student
Pre-Doc Fellow

Research Interests

Experimental Syntax & Semantics, Negation, Second & Third Language Acquisition, Slavic Linguistics

Education

MA in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2026)

BA in Linguistics, University of Wisconsin – Madison (Honors in Major, Summa Cum Laude) (2024)

Awards and Honors

2024: Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities & Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2023-2024: Foreign Language Area Studies Scholarship (Kazakh)

Recent Publications

Sand, E. & Ionin, T. (2026). Negative Concord in L2-Russian. Proceedings of 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.