2018-10-03 - 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". For more information see: https://idsi.illinois.edu/summits/...

2018-09-26 -   Congratulations to Hyunji (Hayley) Park! Her paper, entitled “How rater behavior changes over time: Insights gained from many-facets Rasch modeling in second language writing”, was selected for the best presentation award at the 20th MwALT conference in Madison Wisconsin this past weekend.  This paper is based on her work on the new EPT rater certification program. Thanks to all the...

2018-09-25 - Illinois Linguists at GALANA-8 (Indiana University) - 9/26-30/18 Silvina Montrul (invited speaker, Workshop on Attrition in Individuals and Communities): “Who affects who? Let’s reconsider possible mechanisms and directionality of intergenerational attrition.” Begoña Arechabaleta Regulez (Spanish & Portuguese): “On-line processing of differential object marking by heritage speakers and...

2018-09-10 - Hans Henrich 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 of Folia Linguistica Historica and as member of the Executive Committee. This honor is awarded to members who have been active in the society and have reached/are reaching their 80th birthday....

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

2018-08-21 - Ben and Darren's paper on sarcasm and emoji's that has received media attention is now published.  See https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/690952 for UofI News Bureau coverage of article.    

2018-08-20 -   FACULTY Jeff Green – Visiting Asst Prof, LING (2018 PhD, Univ of Maryland) - Psycho/neurolinguistics, Syntax Aida Talic – Asst Prof, LING (2017 PhD, Univ of Connecticut) – Syntax, Syntax/Semantics   MATESL Eunjeong Ahn (Univ of Arizona, MA (Ling)) Hannah Butler (Calvin College, BA (Ling)) Isabelle Cavazos (Univ of South Florida, BA (Eng Lit...

2018-08-07 - Congratulations to Lane Schwartz (and fellow PI, our former colleague Sylvia Schreiner at George Mason) on being awarded an NSF-DEL (Documenting Endangered Languages) grant for their project "Integrating Language Documentation and Computational Tools for Yupik, an Alaska Native Language".

2018-07-06 - Congratulations to 50 instructors (in 61 classes/sections) who made it to the Spring 2018 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent. Keep up the good work!   Teachers%20Ranked%20As%20Excellent%20Sp18.pdf           

2018-07-06 - Congratulations to Sarah Choi (co-PI) and her advisor Tania Ionin (PI) and to Andrew Armstrong and his advisor Silvina Montrul (PI) on being awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant for their dissertation projects. Sarah's dissertation project is title "The Count/Mass Distinction in Native and Non-native Grammar", while Andrew will work on "Literacy Effects on Language Acquisition and...

2018-05-18 - One of our students, Melanie Rohla, was recently awarded the 2018 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Swahili this summer. Melanie Rohla, a junior studying Environmental Science and Global Studies, will take intensive Swahili courses in Arusha, Tanzania for 8 weeks. Melanie sees this as a great opportunity for her to improve her proficiency in the language that...

2018-05-01 - Professor Eyamba Bokamba retires at the end of Spring 2018 after 44 years of distinguished service. His contributions were recognized in a reception jointly hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the Center for African Studies on April 26, 2018.

2018-04-24 - Our student John Rossi took this picture during his study abroad program in Morocco. It was displayed at the UIUC undergraduate exhibition.Thanks John for sharing this project with us!  "This image, taken in the tanneries of Fez, was captured during my semester abroad in the kingdom of Morocco during Fall 2017. Despite departing to research political and economic effects of North Africa’s...

2018-03-28 - UIUC linguistics undergrad Shayne Chammavanijakul’s magazine Dill was recently written up in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/dining/food-magazines.html. Congratulations, Shayne!

2018-03-26 - This book examines the interactional practices of nurse practitioners (NPs) and the delivery of health care in the US. The author takes a discourse analytic approach, examining the linguistic resources that NPs employ in their interactions with patients. These linguistic features are connected to the concept of professional competency with specific focus on the enactment of the patient-centered...