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...
2018-01-16 - Tania Ionin and Ora Matushansky to appear in the Linguistic Inquiry Monograph Series. Their working title is Cardinals: The Syntax and Semantics of Cardinal-Containing Expressions. Congratulations, Tania!- 2017-12-12 - Help us congratulate our students who got their monograph approved by the editorial board for the Routledge Studies in Linguistics Series! Title: Chronotopes and Migration: Language, Social Imagination, and Behavior Extent: 80,000 words; about 100 printed pages Images/Figures: n/a Color...
2017-12-10 - Taylor Erwin has a unique résumé for a software programmer. rwin graduated last May with a "CS + X" degree from the UI, a fairly new option for students who want to combine computer science with another field — in his case, linguistics, or the study of human language. A "CS + linguistics" degree makes sense for those interested in artificial intelligence and how computers understand language (...
2017-10-20 - Our own graduate student, Kate Lyons, has contributed a tool instrumental to the success of a new endeavor which sheds some light on use of Emoji surrounding the current trend of #MeToo. Kate created an expanded set of characters in her Emoji dictionary that catalogs the prose name of an emoji matched up to...