On Thursday, July 26, 2018, Reham Alhammad successfully defended her Ph.D dissertation entitled, “The Role of the Syllable Contact Law-Semisyllable (SCL-Semi) in the Coda Clusters of Najdi Arabic and Other Languages.” Congratulations, Dr. Alhammad! &nbs… Continue Reading »

UWM linguistics major Abbey Palmer has accepted an offer to attend the Master’s program in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at University of Oxford. Congratulations, Abbey!… Continue Reading »

UWM doctoral student Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal just had an article published in the peer-reviewed journal Studia Linguistica. It is entitled On Discourse Features Inheritance in the vP Information Structure: Evidence from Depictive Secondary Predication in Standard Arabic. Congratulations, Abel-Rahman!… Continue Reading »

UWM doctoral student Okgi Kim recently had an article published in the Proceedings of the Linguistics Society of America. The article, “Morphosyntactic form of Korean fragments is relevant to their resolution”, was co-authored by Joanna Nykiel, Jong-Bok Kim, and Rok … Continue Reading »

UWM linguistics and Japanese major Lauren Singer won the grand prize at a speech contest hosted by the Japanese Consulate in Chicago. Congratulations, Lauren!… Continue Reading »

UWM graduate Amanda Johnson ’17, Global Studies major and TESOL certificate student, has been accepted to the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program in Colombia. Congratulations, Amanda!… Continue Reading »

UWM undergraduate Trevor Brown-Cox, a double-major in Linguistics and Japanese and TESOL certificate student, has won an award to the prestigious Japan Exchange and Teaching program (JET). He will start in Japan in August. Congratulations, Trevor! &nbs… Continue Reading »

Linguistics PhD candidate Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal was in Philadelphia this weekend to present his paper, “On dimensional property concepts in Palestinian Arabic: Evidence for uniformitarianism,” at this year’s Penn Linguistics Conference.… Continue Reading »