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!    

2021-02-14 - Please join us in congratulating Professor Ryan Shosted in being selected as one of the recipients of the 2020-2021 LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching!

2021-02-10 - The Department of Linguistics is proud to host the Illinois Language And Linguistics Society conference (13th edition) and 2021 Sociolinguistics Symposium on February 26th-27th this year. This two-day event will bring scholars from a variety of subfields in linguistics together to discuss the latest linguistic research findings....

2021-02-10 - Assistant Professor Krystal Small was named an AAA star in Linguistic Anthropology. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Smalls! https://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2021/01/29/stars-from-the-aaa-sections/

2021-02-10 - Congratulations to Karla Sanabria-Véaz for being one of the invited speakers at the Illinois TESOL Bilingual Education (ITBE) conference this year! The conference will be held on February 27th. Please see https://itbe.org/...

2021-01-25 - For her work on syntactic effects on tone in the Nilo-Saharan language Dholuo, Aida Talić has been appointed by the selection committee of the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) as a Fellow in the Center during the 2021-2022 academic year. Congratulations, Dr. Talić!

2021-01-22 - Friends,   A happy New Year and semester to everyone!   As much as we had hoped for a return to some semblance of ‘normal’, it seems that the Spring semester will be pretty much a repeat of Fall 2020. I know this places continued and perhaps new pressures on many of us who have already been impacted adversely by covid-19.  So my heartfelt appreciation goes out to faculty, staff...

2020-12-21 - For her work on syntactic effects on tone in the Nilo-Saharan language Dholuo, Aida Talić has been recommended by the selection committee of the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) for appointment as a Fellow in the Center during the 2021-2022 academic year. Her appointment is now pending approval from the U of I Board of Trustees in January.

2020-10-26 - Dr. Rakesh Bhatt, professor of linguistics and SLATE, has been appointed as editor for the upcoming book series Multilingualism in the Global South (Palgrave MacMillan).