The UWM Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce that undergraduate Tori Tran has been named the 2020-2021 recipient of the Eckman Scholarship. Tori became interested in linguistics when she took Linguistics 100 (Diversity of Human Language) during her first semester at … Continue Reading »
Loosen featured in LSA Member Spotlight
UWM Linguistics MA alumna Suzi Loosen is featured in the Linguistic Society of America’s May Member Spotlight. She is recognized for her pioneering work bringing linguistics education to high schoolers, both here in Milwaukee at the Milwaukee School of Languages … Continue Reading »
Linguistics at UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium
Congratulations to four undergraduate linguistics students who presented their collaborative research papers at UWM’s Undergraduate Research Symposium last Friday. Tori Tran, Valerie Perkins, Aimee Roekle, and Paige Cooper-Rolefson all represented the department in the first online version of the symposium. … Continue Reading »
Fleisher at MIT and Rutgers
Associate Professor Nick Fleisher will give invited talks at MIT on Friday, March 6 and at Rutgers University on Tuesday, March 10, on his ongoing research on binding and ellipsis.… Continue Reading »
Abuhaib wins best student abstract award
Mohammed Abuhaib won the best student abstract award from the Arabic Linguistics Society at this year’s Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics in Tucson. Congratulations, Mohammed!… Continue Reading »
UWM at 34th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
UWM Linguistics will be well represented at the upcoming 34th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics at the University of Arizona this weekend, with the following talks: Saja Albuarabi & Hanyong Park: Production and Perception of Consonant Clusters in Nonwords by … Continue Reading »
Hamid Ouali at Georgetown University
Associate Professor Hamid Ouali gave an invited talk at Georgetown University on Friday February 21. The title of the talk was: “On the correlation between tense and verb movement in Arabic.” Congratulations, Professor Ouali!… Continue Reading »
Pattillo in Wisconsin Englishes Project
Kelsie Pattillo has a new article on sociolinguistic variation in Wisconsin, published as part of the Wisconsin Englishes Project. The article, entitled “I bought a bag of bagels,” examines sociolinguistic variation in vowel articulation in the word bag across age … Continue Reading »
UWM linguists at the LSA
UWM Linguistics was well represented at the LSA annual meeting in New Orleans this past weekend, with presentations by Hamideh Sadat Bagherzadeh & Aqil Izadysadr and Okgi Kim. Congratulations all!… Continue Reading »
Patrick Rich to present at BSSL 2020
UWM Linguistics masters student Patrick Rich will present his work, “Macedonian Object Clitics: Replication and Grammaticalization” at the 22nd Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore at Arizona State University in April. Congratulations, Patrick!… Continue Reading »