01/22/2021 - Friends, A happy New Year and semester to everyone! As much as we had hoped for a return to some semblance of ‘normal’, it seems that the Spring semester will be pretty much a repeat of Fall...
News
12/21/2020 - For her work on syntactic effects on tone in the Nilo-Saharan language Dholuo, Aida Talić has been recommended by the selection committee of the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) for appointment as a...
10/26/2020 - Dr. Rakesh Bhatt, professor of linguistics and SLATE, has been appointed as editor for the upcoming book series Multilingualism in the Global South (Palgrave MacMillan).
08/27/2020 - Dr. Fred Davidson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, will deliver the Alan Davies Lecture at the Language Testing Research Colloquium. The conference is scheduled...
08/24/2020 - Dear friends, I would like to welcome you (back) to a new semester and academic year, which will surely be one to remember. I hope you are staying safe and well and that your summer has been...
08/14/2020 - Congratulations to Anna, her advisor (Kiel), and the dissertation committee members on being awarded the NSF dissertation research improvement grant. .
08/14/2020 - Ryan Shosted, Professor of Linguistics, has worked extensively with the Maya community since arriving in Champaign in 2007, helping to raise awareness about their native language of Q’anjob’al in the...
08/13/2020 - Linguistics PhD Students The new student orientation for incoming Linguistics PhD students will take place on August 19th at 9 AM via Zoom. All members of the department are welcome...
08/11/2020 - Taraneh Sanei’s paper "Normativity, Power, and Agency: On the Chronotopic Organization of Orthographic Conventions on Social Media," has been accepted for publication in the premier journal in...
The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking Edited by Alexandru Mardale and Silvina Montrul INaLCO, Paris / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Differential Object marking (DOM), a...
06/18/2020 - The co-curricular activities are an essential component of the SILMW program. The activities provide students with experiences outside the classroom to learn about the cultures and peoples in the...
06/18/2020 - On Monday, June 15, 2020, Department of Linguistics and LCTL program welcomed 104 students to the Summer Institute for Languages of the Muslim World, held virtually this year from June 15 to August 8...
- Congratulations to Dee Ann Bates and team for winning the Marita Romine Distinguished Service Award!
06/03/2020 - Congratulations to Office Managers Ellen Lindsey (CWL and Religion), Dee Ann Bates (Linguistics), Katie Walker (Spanish and SLATE) and Jessica Smith (Classics, Translation and Interpreting Studies...
05/19/2020 - Congratulations to Dr. Eman Saadah on being recognized with an Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence award "Dr. Saadah makes the challenge of learning a language such as Arabic seem simple...
05/15/2020 - A a team led by Silvina Montrul, (PI. Spanish and Linguistics) working in collaboration with Xun Yan, (Linguistics), Jessica Montag, (Psychology), Kiel Christianson (Educational Psychology) and Pam...