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 »
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 »
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 »