This morning Mohammed Abuhaib successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Remarks on Modern Standard Arabic Construct State and Quantification.” Congratulations, Dr. Abuhaib!… Continue Reading »

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 »

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 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 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 »