UWM Linguistics alum (MA 2018) Tanner LeTourneau sent the following update: “I got a job as a business ESL teacher and as a methodologist for my company (James Cook Languages) in Prague, Czech Republic. I had a nice opportunity to … Continue Reading »
Albuhayri defends dissertation
On Tuesday, November 26, Salem Albuhayri successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Information Structure in Standard Arabic Verbal Sentences.” Congratulations, Dr. Albuhayri!… Continue Reading »
Albaty to Qassim University
Yasser Albaty (PhD 2019) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of English and Linguistics at Qassim University, Saudi Arabia. Congratulations, Yasser!… Continue Reading »
Abu Helal to Middle East University
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 »