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 »
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 »
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 »
UWM at 34th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
UWM Linguistics will be well represented at the upcoming 34th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics at the University of Arizona this weekend, with the following talks: Saja Albuarabi & Hanyong Park: Production and Perception of Consonant Clusters in Nonwords by … Continue Reading »
UWM linguists at the LSA
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 »