2026-01-26
- We are excited to announce that the second edition of Silvina Montrul’s El bilingüismo en el mundo hispanohablante is being published this month by Wiley-Blackwell. The first edition of the volume was published in 2012 and has since been cited in hundreds of academic publications in linguistics and related fields. According to...
2026-01-20 - The Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting is the premier annual gathering of linguists and linguistics students from throughout the profession and around the world. Its goal is to provide an opportunity for linguists to share research, including the scholarship of teaching and learning in...
2026-01-19 - We are proud to announce that UIUC MATESOL student Eda Yildirimer was selected as the recipient of the AAAL 2026 Graduate Student Award (Duolingo Award).The American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) is a professional organization of scholars who are interested in and actively contribute to the multi-disciplinary field of applied linguistics....
2026-01-09 - We are excited to announce that UIUC's Jonathan Dunn has a new monograph entitled, Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations: Language as a Complex System, published by Cambridge University Press. This work is part of a series called Elements in Construction Grammar. Check out the summary below:This Element presents a computational theory of syntactic...
2026-01-07 - We are excited to announce that UIUC will host the 7th Sociolinguistics Symposium on April 4th, 2026. SOSY is a graduate-student run conference that offers a key forum for scholarly exchange across language-related fields. This year's theme is Between Languages, Between Worlds: Language, Culture, and Global Communication, and invitations for...
2025-12-08 - This semester, many students from the UIUC Linguistics department presented their research at conferences near and far. Let’s take the time to congratulate each of them for their dedication to their work and their excellent representation of our department!In August, Cory Lemke presented the talk Heritage Language Learning for International Adoptees: Insights from...- 2025-11-23 - The Department of Linguistics bids a fond farewell to Professor Peter Lasersohn, who has served twenty-nine years in this department. The following excerpt is taken from James Yoon's tribute to Dr. Lasersohn that was given at the awards ceremony. Lasersohn’s scholarship can be characterized as deep, transformative and consequential...
2025-11-19 - We are excited to announce that the 33rd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference will be held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from August 7 to August 9, with a pre-conference workshop/tutorial planned for August 6, 2026. The invited speakers for the conference will be Dorothy Ahn (Rutgers University)...
2025-11-18 - This is our second annual departmental newsletter. The goal of the newsletter is to celebrate significant milestones among our students, faculty and staff during the past academic year, welcome new members to the department, and share exciting plans for the coming academic year. This year sees a major change to the admin team for the department. I am honored to be...
2025-11-18 - As Peter Lasersohn begins his newest chapter after twenty-nine years of teaching and research, we sat down with him to talk about his journey, and where he is headed. Why did you decide to become a professor?As an undergraduate, I had several professors who I really admired. It seemed like an interesting and worthwhile line of work. Then, after I graduated, I went into a...
2025-11-18 - Get to know our newest faculty member! Scott is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics. What got you interested in the field of linguistics?When I was learning Spanish in high school, what interested me the most was the structural differences between English and Spanish. Particularly, pro-drop fascinated me. In my first year of college, one of my...
2025-10-31 - We are excited to announce that Huiying Cai has been awarded TIRF's 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Grant. The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF) is an international, non-profit organization devoted to English language education. Each year, the foundation offers the Doctoral Dissertation Grant to help researchers complete their dissertations, especially work...
2025-10-29 - Considering taking more Linguistics courses in the upcoming Spring? Check out these options below, and see the full course offerings here.
2025-10-20 - Congratulations to Chae Eun Lee, who has been awarded the Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2025-2026 Academic Year!The Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowships help outstanding Illinois graduate students to complete the doctoral degrees. Chae Eun is receiving this recognition for her research on second language acquisition of Korean plural marking, and...
2025-09-12 - As the new semester starts, we are excited to welcome back so many wonderful reading groups related to Linguistics!If you are considering joining a new reading group, please take a look at the groups below, or learn more on our Reading and Discussion Groups page. Fall 2025 Calendar...