News Blog Archives
News Blog Archives
Jennifer Smith in Linguistic Inquiry
March 29, 2021 |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 …
Meg Fletcher to Ph.D program at University of Georgia
March 25, 2021 |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!
Summer 2021 course offerings
March 19, 2021 |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 invited talk at Museo del Jade (Costa Rica)
February 25, 2021 |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 keynote at InterSlavic 2020/2021
February 25, 2021 |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 …
Jennifer Smith colloquium talk at Universität Leipzig
February 18, 2021 |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 …
Spanish as a Heritage Language lecture series
January 28, 2021 |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 …
UNC linguists at the 2021 LSA and sister society meetings
January 11, 2021 |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 interviewed by Spectrum News
December 22, 2020 |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 …
Special courses in Spring 2021
December 12, 2020 |In the spring semester, our department will offer several courses of special interest (less frequent or Special Topics courses). This includes the following classes …