2021-08-01
- Read about Professor Ryan Shosted and his work with the Mayan community in Storied:
https://storied.illinois.edu/found-in-translation/#
"The Initiative was born out of recognition of the continuously growing Q’anjob’al-speaking community in Champaign-Urbana—one that had its start in 1987 with the arrival of the Diego and Ana...
- 2021-06-28 - On Saturday June 26th, the Summer Institute for Languages of the Muslim World concluded the Intensive Summer program in Arabic for high school students with a ceremony. Watch our recorded closing ceremony here: https://illinois.zoom.us/rec/share/...
- 2021-06-01 - Please join me in congratulating Professor Tania Ionin, who has been selected to receive the prestigious University Scholar award for 2021-22.
- 2021-06-01 - Congratulations to Professor Silvina Montrul and Professor David Dubin for being selected for funding by the NCSA Fellows program for their research: 'Analyzing and Visualizing Linguistic Variation in Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers'.
- 2021-05-04 - We are pleased to announce that Professor Tania Ionin has been selected to receive the Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar award for three years, starting Fall 2021. Congratulations, Tania!
- 2021-04-28 - The 51st Meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) will take place virtually between April 29th-May 1st. UIUC Linguistics will be represented at the conference with talk(s) by: José Ignacio Hualde and Jennifer Zhang. Lenition and contrastiveness: Word-...
- 2021-04-22 - Dr. Yan Tang was chosen as a Humanities Released Time award recipient for his research topic: "The impact of background noise on listening comprehension: Implications for English language teaching, learning, and assessment". Congratulations, Dr. Yan Tang!
- 2021-04-20 - The Department of Linguistics will be holding a virtual event to celebrate student award winners and graduates on May 11, 4-5pm. Please join us in congratulating the award recipients below for their accomplishments during the 2020-2021 academic year: MATESL / ESL awards: Peter Strevens Award for Academic Excellence: Alice Houston Mary A. Hussey Award for...
- 2021-04-19 - The LAS Impact Awards were created to honor those who’ve gone beyond expectations to help others during this incredibly difficult chapter in our history. Recipients were nominated by their peers and selected by an LAS committee. The winners' names and a brief summary of their contributions are included in a virtual display. The department...
- 2021-04-07 - The 4th Conference of Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL-4), hosted by Indiana University, will take place virtually between April 9th-11th. UIUC Linguistics will be represented at the conference with talk(s) by: Aylin Coskun Kunduz and Silvina Montrul. The L1...
- 2021-04-01 - The Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) hosted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will take place virtually from April 29 to May 1, 2021. The program and registration for 51st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 51) are now live. Program: ...
- 2021-03-31 - Congratulations to Professor Krystal Smalls for being selected as the winner of the prize for best faculty research with her entry "Race, Signs, and the Body: Toward a Theory of Racial Semiotics" in Chapter 12 of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020) (https://blogs....
- 2021-03-27 - Please join us in congratulating Professor Eman Saadah for being named a 2021-22 Levenick iSEE Teaching Sustainability Fellow!
- 2021-03-23 - Students in the Department of Linguistics are very active in presenting their research at many conferences, both nationally and internationally. We are happy to highlight their contributions to the field of linguistics and encourage everyone to attend upcoming student presentations if possible. Student presentations for March include: Marco Fonseca. 日本語における音変異:...
- 2021-03-03 - Congratulations to Professor Ionin and Professor Shosted for receiving the Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching! Professor Tania Ionin won the Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching Award. Professor Ryan Shosted won the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. Congratulations!