2019-08-21
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Dear all,
My warmest wishes to everyone as we are set to begin an exciting new academic year. For those of you joining us for the first time, welcome! And for those who are returning, I hope you had a productive and enjoyable summer.
The following is a list of new students and faculty joining us this year.
FACULTY
1. Guillermo Del Pinal - Assistant Professor of Philosophy...
- 2019-07-09 - Congratulations to Mien-Jen Wu and her advisor Tania Ionin on being awarded the NSF DDRIG (doctoral dissertation research improvement grant).
- 2019-06-05 - In The Nigerien connection, the LAS newsletter recently profiled Hassana Alidou, an alumna of the Linguistics Department who is currently the ambassador for the United States from Niger. Please read read the article here to learn about Alidou's accomplishments and experience here at UIUC.
- 2019-05-20 - Professor Katharine O. Aston passed away in the early morning of May 16. She was 101 years old. Funeral arrangements are made by Owens Funeral Home, but there will be no visitation. A memorial service (mass) will be held at 10 am, Friday, May 24, at St. John's Catholic Church (Newman Center), at 604 E. Armory, Champaign IL. An obituary appears in News-Gazette, Sunday...
2019-05-03 - Dr. Eman Saadah has been promoted to Teaching Associate Professor effective Fall 2019
2019-04-25 - The Awards and Graduation Celebration for the Department of Linguistics will be held on Wednesday, May 1st from 4 - 6 PM in Room 314A in the Illini Union.- 2019-04-25 - Congratulations to the students of the Linguistics Department who have received awards this year! Departmental Student Awards Outstanding Undergraduate in Linguistics Award - Grace Moran, Sean Chapman, Aidan San Student Leadership Award - Amy Gorgone, Sarah Clark, Chelsey Norman Silver Jubilee Award for Outstanding TA in Linguistics Courses - Patrick Drackley, Anita...
- 2019-04-04 - The IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing can be accessed here.
- 2019-02-09 - We are pleased to announce that PhD student Chung-yu Chen has received the NSF Dissertation Research Improvement Grant. Professor Tania Ionin is the PI.
- 2019-01-21 - Last Friday, Dr. Talić gave an invited talk at UChicago, titled "Accentogenic clitics and prosodic clitic incorporation by phase".
2019-01-11 - 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 in non-native processing: Implications for theories of SLA". The Mike Sharwood Smith award is given to the best article published in the journal Second Language Research. SLR is a...
2018-12-18 - 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 direction of Professors James Yoon and Tania Ionin.
2018-12-18 - To make a donation for Professor Eyamba Georges Bokamba's Fund, please follow this link. This fund celebrates the commitment, rigor, tenacity, and visionary leadership of a gifted teacher. People and institutions worldwide have benefited from Professor Eyamba Georges Bokamba's insights and contributions to the fields of...
2018-11-27 - 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 direction of Professors Tania Ionin and James Yoon.
2018-11-26 - 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. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cardinals