2024-04-15 - We are excited to recognize Dr. Eman Saadah for receiving the 2024 SLCL Diversity & Engagement Award! This award recognizes alumni or members of the community at large who have made significant contributions (tangible and intangible) to the SLCL community; contributions which...
2024-04-08 - During its annual Fund Drive, the Linguist List features undergraduate and early-career graduate students who have gone above and beyond the classroom to participate in the wider field of linguistics. Selected nominees exemplify a commitment to not only academic performance, but also to the field...
2024-04-03 - We are pleased to announce that Dr. Silvina Montrul will give a plenary address at the 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). The Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) is one of the largest student-...
2024-03-19 - We are proud to announce that a new volume edited by Professors Tania Ionin and Silvina Montrul has just been released! The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and Semantics was released on March 11, 2024, published by Routledge. In addition...
2024-03-07 - The 17th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) conference will take place at the UIUC campus May 2-4, 2024 in the Levis Faculty Center. GASLA-17 is a venue for linguists to present theoretically informed research on second language...
2024-03-07 - The Linguistics graduate students at U of I just hosted the 16th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society! The annual academic conference took place on March 1st – 2nd at the I Hotel & Illinois Conference Center and attracted...
2024-02-06 - We would like to welcome new faculty members for whom Spring is their first semester. Let's meet these new additions to the department! Jonathan Dunn (Associate Professor) Tell us a little bit about yourself I am a computational linguist. To me, that means using computational...
2024-02-05 - Congratulations to Xun Yan for being named LAS Alumni Distinguished Professorial Scholar! This is a recognition given to scholars with a particularly outstanding record for their contributions in education and research at the University of Illinois. This five year appointment begins...
2024-01-19 - The 2024 (Centennial) Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America took place January 4- January 7 in New York City. The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) was founded in 1924 to advance the...
2024-01-12 - A hearty congratulations to Silvina Montrul, whose book "...- 2024-01-01 - Join us for the 16th meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society! ILLS is a general linguistics conference open to all subfields and aimed primarily at providing graduate and undergraduate students a friendly venue to present their work. The ILLS annual conference is proud to be...
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2023-12-05 - PhD student Allison Casar has been picked to receive the inaugural COGEL Travel Award to attend the upcoming meeting of the Linguistics Society of America in New York City this January. The COGEL (Committee on Gender Equity in Linguistics) Travel Awards are intended to increase the...
2023-12-01 - 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 September, Joshua Dees...- 2023-11-15 - Congratulations to Britni Moore for receiving two prestigious fellowships for work on her dissertation: Police Recruits and the Discursive Construction of Rape in Sexual Assault Training. Britni has received the Harry F. Guggenheim Emerging Scholars fellowship, which...
2023-11-13 - Martine Gallardo, a PhD student in the Linguistics Department, was recently invited to the University of Chicago to give a talk in the class Bilingualism and Heritage Languages, which was co-taught by Dr. Anastasia Giannakidou and Dr. Zoi Gavriilidou. His talk, entitled Bilingual Knowledge of...