Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal (PhD 2019) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of the English Language and Literature at Middle East University in Amman, Jordan. Congratulations, Abdel-Rahman!… Continue Reading »
Pattillo to appear in Anthropological Linguistics
Kelsie Pattillo’s article, “Limb term naming patterns in South American languages,” has been accepted for publication in Anthropological Linguistics. Congratulations, Kelsie!… Continue Reading »
El Haimeur to Kansas
Amal El Haimeur (PhD 2019) has accepted a position as Assistant Teaching Professor and Coordinator of the Arabic Program in the Department of African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas. Congratulations, Amal!… Continue Reading »
Moran defends MA thesis
Congratulations to Joseph Moran, who successfully defended his master’s thesis today!… Continue Reading »
Albuarabi and Althubyani pass prelims
Congratulations to Saja Albuarabi and Ruqayyah Althubyani, both of whom passed their doctoral preliminary exams today!… Continue Reading »
Abu Helal presents at SLA Symposium
Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal presented a paper at the 2019 SLA Symposium, held last weekend at UW-Madison. His paper was entitled “On the L2 acquisition of embedded tense in before-clauses: a bi-directional study of truth conditional mismatch.”… Continue Reading »
Kim presents at ILLS
Linguistics Ph.D. student Okgi Kim is presenting a paper at the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society conference this weekend. His paper is entitled “Gapless right dislocation in Korean as remnant-VP movement.”… Continue Reading »
Abu Helal defends dissertation
On Tuesday, April 23, 2019, Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal successfully defended his dissertation, “Logical Form in the Second Language: An Investigation into Quantification in Interlanguage.” Congratulations, Dr. Abu Helal!… Continue Reading »
Sarah Ransom-Laud ’18 to University of Texas, Austin
UWM linguistics graduate Sarah Ransom-Laud (formerly Sarah Gilbert), class of 2018, has accepted a funded offer to the Ph.D program in linguistics at the University of Texas, Austin. Congratulations, Sarah!… Continue Reading »
El Haimeur defends dissertation
On Tuesday, April 16, 2019, Amal El Haimeur successfully defended her dissertation, “The Acquisition of Morphology in Moroccan Heritage Speakers in France.” Congratulations, Dr. El Haimeur!… Continue Reading »