On Thursday, July 26, 2018, Reham Alhammad successfully defended her Ph.D dissertation entitled, “The Role of the Syllable Contact Law-Semisyllable (SCL-Semi) in the Coda Clusters of Najdi Arabic and Other Languages.” Congratulations, Dr. Alhammad!… Continue Reading »
Abbey Palmer ’18 featured in UWM Report
A great video of Abbey Palmer (B.A. & TESOL certificate ’18) was featured in the UWM Report. View it here. &nbs… Continue Reading »
Welcome to Sharon Geibel
The Linguistics Department has a new Academic Department Associate! Sharon Geibel comes to us from UW Whitewater, where she was responsible for the First Year Experience. We are very pleased to have her. Welcome, Sharon!… Continue Reading »
Photos from Undergraduate Research Symposium
Abbey Palmer to Oxford
UWM linguistics major Abbey Palmer has accepted an offer to attend the Master’s program in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at University of Oxford. Congratulations, Abbey!… Continue Reading »
Abu Helal published in Studia Linguistica
UWM doctoral student Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal just had an article published in the peer-reviewed journal Studia Linguistica. It is entitled On Discourse Features Inheritance in the vP Information Structure: Evidence from Depictive Secondary Predication in Standard Arabic. Congratulations, Abel-Rahman!… Continue Reading »
Okgi Kim published in Proceedings of LSA
UWM doctoral student Okgi Kim recently had an article published in the Proceedings of the Linguistics Society of America. The article, “Morphosyntactic form of Korean fragments is relevant to their resolution”, was co-authored by Joanna Nykiel, Jong-Bok Kim, and Rok … Continue Reading »
Chapin ’16 to doctoral program at Pompeu Fabra
Kayla Chapin, UWM linguistics class of 2016, has accepted an offer to pursue a doctoral degree in linguistics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Congratulations, Kayla!… Continue Reading »
Alharbi promoted to Assistant Professor
Bader Alharbi, UWM Linguistics PhD 2017, has been promoted to Assistant Professor of English and Linguistic at Qassim University, Saudi Arabia. Congratulations, Bader!… Continue Reading »
Dr. Pattillo named Digital Humanities Fellow
Linguistics department lecturer Kelsie Pattillo has been named a Digital Humanities Lab Teaching Fellow for the 2018-1019 school year. As part of the award, Kelsie will receive training to use tools from the Digital Humanities Lab and then incorporate these tools … Continue Reading »