An article by Katya Pertsova, “A case for a binary feature underlying clusivity: the possibility of ABA,” has been published in Morphology. The published article is available …

Several UNC linguists and alumni presented last week at the 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology, hosted at UCLA. They presented the following works …

An article by Brian Hsu, “Gradient symbolic representations in Harmonic Grammar” has been published in Language and Linguistics Compass. The published version is available on the journal’s website; an open access submitted version is available on Lingbuzz.

Justin Pinta (MA 2013) has accepted and begun a faculty position as an assistant professor of Spanish Linguistics at Mississippi State University. After receiving his MA in Linguistics at UNC, he completed his doctoral work at the Ohio State University (Ph.D 2022). Congratulations, Justin!

Recent graduate Dylan Elliott (MA 2022) started a job this summer as a computational linguist at Megaputer Intelligence. Congratulations, Dylan!

The department congratulates Jennifer Smith, who has been promoted to the rank of Professor. Congratulations, Jen!

Becky Butler and an interdisciplinary team of UNC researchers have won a $900,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for “Bringing Southeast Asia Home,” an initiative that will expand the study of Southeast Asia and its languages at UNC-Chapel Hill and the UNC System …

Last week, Amy Reynolds successfully defended her Ph.D dissertation, “Consonant Cluster Simplification Patterns in Refugee English Revisited: Karen English in the United States.” Her committee includes David Mora-Marín as chair, Jennifer L. Smith, Misha Becker, Robin Dodsworth (NCSU), and Walt Wolfram (NCSU). Congratulations, Amy!

Caitlin Smith presented last weekend at the 40th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 40), hosted virtually by Stanford University. She presented a talk, “Typological asymmetries in underapplication opacity: A gestural account,” with co-author Charlie O’Hara (University of Michigan).

Trey Anthony recently presented at the 3rd International Symposium on Language Attitudes toward Spanish, Portuguese, and Related Languages, hosted virtually at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He presented a talk, “Perceptions of Inclusive Language among Spanish-language Educators in Spain and Mexico.” 

Second-year MA student Sean Foley has accepted an admissions offer to the linguistics Ph.D program at the University of Southern California, where he will begin this fall. Congratulations, Sean!

Prof. David Mora-Marín has been contributing to a multidisciplinary study of the movement of human populations and genes, linguistic traits, and cultigens between South America and Middle America …

Several UNC linguists and alumni presented at this year’s meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) …

Some current UNC linguists and alumni presented at the this year’s Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. They presented the following …

Next week, from Thursday, October 21, through Saturday, October 23, the Linguistics Department, with the support of several other academic units at UNC (Archaeology Curriculum, Carolina Asia Center, Department of Anthropology; Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Asian … Read more

Our legacy PhD students Amy Reynolds and Jennifer Boehm both received ARPA graduate degree completion grants to complete their dissertations…

The department congratulates David Mora-Marín, who has been promoted to the rank of Professor. Cheers, David!

Katya Pertsova presented this past weekend at the 30th annual meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL), hosted virtually at MIT …

Our 2007 Ph.D alumna Yu Li, currently an assistant professor at Loyola Marymount University, recently published a book, The Chinese Writing System in Asia: An Interdisciplinary Perspective …

A couple of UNC linguistics students and alumni are presenting this week at the 57th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. They are presenting the following …