Several UNC linguistics students, faculty, and alumni presented this weekend at the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, hosted virtually by the University of Arizona. They presented …

Yiwen Peng has successfully defended his MA thesis, “The constituency and syntactic projections of classifiers in Mandarin Chinese.” His committee includes Brian Hsu (chair), Misha Becker, and Michael Terry. Congratulations, Yiwen!

An article by Jennifer Smith, “Some Formal Implications of Deletion Saltation,” has been accepted for publication in Linguistic Inquiry. Both the “just accepted” version and its eventual published version are available …

Recent MA graduate (2020) Meg Fletcher has has been admitted to the linguistics Ph.D program at the University of Georgia, where she will begin this fall. Congratulations, Meg!

Our department will offer several classes during the two Summer 2021 sessions. This includes LING 101: Introduction to Language,
LING 202: Language Variation and Change, LING 290: Special Topics: Introduction to American Sign Language I …

David Mora-Marín gave a (remote) presentation this week at the Museo del Jade y de la Cultura Precolombina in Costa Rica, on inscriptions on Mayan jade pendants found in Costa Rica …

Katya Pertsova gave a keynote presentation at a conference, International/Interslavic 2020/2021: Internationalisms in Slavic as a window into the architecture of grammar, hosted by the University of Graz …

Jen Smith gave an invited colloquium talk, “A tale of two alternations: Productivity and phonetic naturalness in a nonce-loanword judgment task,” at the University of Leipzig (remotely) on Wednesday, February 17 …

The Department of Linguistics is co-sponsoring the Department of Romance Studies’ lecture series: Spanish as a Heritage Language, a series of three invited talks during February and March. More information …

A number of UNC linguistics students, faculty, and alumni presented over the weekend at the 2021 annual meetings of the Linguistic Society of America and North American Research Network on Historical Sociolinguistics …

David Mora-Marín has been interviewed by Spectrum News 1 North Carolina about new English words and new word meanings that have developed during the Coronavirus pandemic …

In the spring semester, our department will offer several courses of special interest (less frequent or Special Topics courses). This includes the following classes …

Brian Hsu presented this past weekend at the 51st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 51), hosted online by the Université du Québec à Montréal …

Current MA student Leah Dudley presented her work recently at the 5th annual Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication, hosted online by Rice University …

Current MA student Sean Foley presented recently at the 53rd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, hosted (remotely) by the University of North Texas …

MA students Jiefang Li and Yiwen Peng presented their work at the (virtual) annual meeting of LASSO, the Linguistic Association of the Southwest. They presented …

An article by Brian Hsu and Saurov Syed (University of Auckland), “Cooccurrence of nonarticle determiners as evidence for split DPs and bundled projections” has appeared in the current issue of Language …

Several UNC linguists faculty, students, and alumni presented their work at the Annual Meeting on Phonology 2020, hosted online by UC Santa Cruz. They presented the following works …

Jennifer Smith recently presented a keynote lecture “How Productive Is Core-Periphery Structure in the Japanese Lexicon? Empirical Results and Theoretical Implications” at the Phonology Forum 2020 of the Phonological Society of Japan. 

Recent work by Amy Reynolds, Jennifer Boehm, and Becky Butler with the Karen community has been featured in an article in Endeavors, the UNC Research magazine. The article delves into their collaboration with local Karen youth to document …