01/11/2019 - We are happy to announce that Ph.D alumnus Kailen Shantz has received the newly launched biennial Mike Sharwood Smith award for his paper, "Phrase frequency, proficiency and grammaticality interact

12/18/2018 -  

12/18/2018 - We are pleased to announce that Eun Hee Kim has successfully defended her dissertation, "Interpretation and Processing of Overt Pronouns in Korean, English, and L2-Acquisition," prepared under the

11/27/2018 - We are pleased to announce that Myeong Hyeon Kim has successfully defended her dissertation, "Processing of Canonical and Scrambled Word Orders in Native and Non-native Korean," prepared under the

11/26/2018 - Tania Ionin's and Ora Matushansky's book 'The Syntax and Semantics of Cardinal-Containing Expressions' has been published by The MIT Press in Linguistic Inquiry Monographs.

11/05/2018 - Congratulations to Professor Xun Yan on his designation as a LEAP (Lincoln Excellence Award for Assistant Professors)  scholar for 2018-19 academic year.

10/30/2018 - The Second Language and Bilingualism Lab (SLAB) was featured in an article

10/04/2018 - Peter Laser

10/03/2018 - Roxana Girju will be giving an invited talk at the Law and Data Science Summit this Friday titled "Lies, Deception and Misrepresentation in Written Language".

09/26/2018 -  

09/25/2018 - Illinois Linguists at GALANA-8 (Indiana University) - 9/26-30/18

09/10/2018 - Hans Hock, professor emeritus, was recently awarded an Honorary Life Membership from the Societas Linguistica Europaea, for his service to the society, including his work as past editor

08/22/2018 - The slides from the 8/22/18 orientation for new MA/PhD students in Linguistics are available here.

08/21/2018 - Ben and Darren's paper on sarcasm and emoji's that has received media attention is now published.