Alshammeri defends dissertation
On Monday, May 4, Reem Alshammeri successfully defended her dissertation, entitled The syntax of ditransitives in Najdi Arabic. Congratulations, Dr. Alshammeri!
Nicholas A Fleisher
Fuddah defends dissertation
On Friday, May 1, Aisha Fuddah successfully defended her dissertation, entitled The syntax of yes-no questions and their answers in Hijazi Arabic. Congratulations, Dr. Fuddah!
Important Linguistics Update for Fall 2026 Registration
Greetings Linguistics undergraduates! Starting in Fall 2026, there are some changes to the requirements for the major. These are designed to make things easier for students and also to introduce some new curricular areas. The good news is that existing majors can …
Fleisher talks at UChicago
Faculty member Nick Fleisher was on the road last week to give a colloquium presentation on his current research at the University of Chicago Department of Linguistics, with a talk entitled “Something all its own: on English own possessives.”
Quigley to Indiana
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 …
Kim and Park at CogNeuroIDALL
Dong Jin Kim (PhD, 2024) and Hanyong Park presented their research last week at the Language Learning roundtable conference, Cognitive Neuroscience of Individual Differences in Adult Language Learning (CogNeuroIDALL): Future directions, held at the University of Illinois Chicago. Their poster …
Congratulations to 2025 Linguistics graduates
Congratulations to all of our spring 2025 UWM Linguistics graduates! BA: Payton Auel Kimberly Campos Melanie Choeun-La Emma Henkhaus Hannah Jones Cassandra Rice Preston Ruh Breanna Watson Luna Whelan MA: Victoria Baake PhD: Daniel Quigley
Congratulations to Prof. Garry Davis
Professor Garry Davis is retiring from the faculty after 39 years at UWM. Beyond his many scholarly contributions in historical linguistics, Germanic linguistics, and southeast Asian linguistics, he has been a valued colleague, mentor, advisor, and department chair. We wish …
Quigley defends dissertation
Daniel Quigley this morning successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Neurosymbolic Semantics.” Congratulations, Dr. Quigley!
New article by Oh and Park
A new article by Sujin Oh (PhD 2024) and Hanyong Park has been published in Linguistic Research. It is titled, “The impact of native language on second language rhythm acquisition: Insights from a cross-linguistic and intra-language corpus study.”