This morning Mohammed Abuhaib successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Remarks on Modern Standard Arabic Construct State and Quantification.” Congratulations, Dr. Abuhaib!… Continue Reading »
Lauren Clark at High Desert Linguistics Society
UWM Linguistics Ph.D. student Lauren Clark will present a paper entitled “Mandarin Chinese Word Order and Altaic Influence” at the 14th High Desert Linguistics Society conference this week. Congratulations, Lauren!… Continue Reading »
Alwahibee defends dissertation
This morning Turki Alwahibee successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Simple Subject-Verb Agreement: A Morphosyntactic Path to Arabic Variations.” Congratulations, Dr. Alwahibee!… Continue Reading »
UWM linguists presenting at LSA 2021
Congratulations to current and former UWM linguistics students who will be presenting at the 2021 Linguistic Society of America conference. Doctoral student Okgi Kim will present “On the syntax of ‘why’-like ‘how’ in Korean” And, with co-author Seulkee Park (Kyung … Continue Reading »
Ruqayyah Althubyani defends dissertation proposal
UWM linguistics doctoral student Ruqayyah Althubyani successfully defended her dissertation proposal, “The Effect of Shadowing in Learning L2 Segments and Suprasegmentals: A Perspective from Phonetic Convergence”. Congratulations, Ruqayyah! (Main advisor Dr. Hanyong Park is in the small image on lower … Continue Reading »
Tori Tran receives Eckman Scholarship
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 »