Congratulations to Reem Alshammeri, whose paper ‘Ditransitive Constructions in Najdi Arabic’ has been accepted for an in-person poster presentation at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting, to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, in January 2026.
Daniel Quigley (PhD 2025) is off to Indiana University, where he will be a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Possible Minds. Daniel writes, “I will be working on semantics, various representations of meaning in language and semiotics, and conversation …
Several students and faculty members received SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows) awards this semester. Kenji Rackoff received a SURF award to work on a project entitled “The Role of Cognitive Abilities in Second Language Sound Learning,” under the direction …
UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present. | To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.