2026-02-26 - University of Illinois Admissions sat down with Kush Bhardwaj (CS+Linguistics Undergraduate) to discuss Computer Science+X, combination majors, and undergraduate research opportunities on campus. To learn more about the undergraduate program, Computer Science + Linguistics, and...
2026-02-25 - A new book coauthored by Tania Ionin and Linguistics PhD alumna Tatiana Luchkina, The Acquisition of Russian as a Second Language: A Research Overview, is releasing this month from Routledge. ...
2026-02-19 - We are excited to announce that John Kotnarowski has received both the LAS award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Instructional Staff, and the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.The...
2026-02-03 - We are excited to announce that UIUC's Randall Sadler partnered with Melinda Dooly of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona as well as Müge Gündüz, Çiler Hatipoğlu, and Perihan Savas of Middle East Technical University in order to organize the International Conference on Technology-Infused...
2026-01-31 - 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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...- 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...
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...
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. ...
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....