Skip to main content
Skip to main menu Skip to spotlight region Skip to secondary region Skip to UGA region Skip to Tertiary region Skip to Quaternary region Skip to unit footer

Slideshow

Keith Langston

Default Image
Professor and Department Head

Keith Langston is Professor of Slavic Studies and Linguistics. He received his Ph.D. in Slavic Linguistics from Yale University, where he also taught for three years as a lecturer. Since 1995 he has been a member of the faculty of Germanic & Slavic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Georgia. His research interests include Slavic prosody and the phonology/morphology interface; historical Slavic linguistics and accentology; and sociolinguistics, with a focus on questions of language and identity and language contact in the former Yugoslavia. 

Education:

Ph.D., Slavic Linguistics, Yale University

M.A., Slavic Linguistics, Yale University

B.Mus., Piano Performance, University of Alabama

Specific Research Areas:

Slavic prosody and the phonology/morphology interface; historical Slavic linguistics and accentology; and sociolinguistics, with a focus on questions of language and identity and language contact in the former Yugoslavia.

Selected Publications:

Langston, Keith and Petar Vuković. 2020. “Croatian”. In Lenore Grenoble, Pia Lane, and Unn Røyneland (eds.), Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lme.11420181.

Langston, Keith. 2020. “Čakavian.” In Greenberg, Marc L. et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online. Leiden–Boston: Brill. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_032011.

Langston, Keith. 2018. Evaluating the Effects of Language Planning Efforts in Croatia: Evidence from Corpus Data. In Stephen M. Dickey and Mark Richard Lauersdorf (eds.), V zeleni drželi zeleni breg: Studies in Honor of Marc L. Greenberg. Columbus, OH: Slavica, 157-198.

Langston, Keith. 2018. Prescriptive Accentual Norms vs. Usage in Croatian: An Acoustic Study of Standard Pronunciation. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 26(2), 245-305.



Langston, Keith. 2018. The Documentation of Slavic. In Jared Klein, Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, and Mark Wenthe (eds.), Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, Vol 3. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 41/3.) Berlin-New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 1397-1413.



Langston, Keith. 2018. The Morphology of Slavic. In Jared Klein, Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, and Mark Wenthe (eds.), Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, Vol 3. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 41/3.) Berlin-New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 1538-1557.

Langston, Keith. 2017. Slavic Sociolinguistics in the Post-Iron Curtain World: A Survey of Recent Research. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 25(2): 417-440.

Langston, Keith and Anita Peti-Stantić. 2014. Language planning and national identity in Croatia. Basingstoke-New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Peti-Stantić, Anita and Keith Langston. 2013. Hrvatsko jezično pitanje danas: Identiteti i ideologije [The Croatian Language Question Today: Identities and Ideologies]. Zagreb: Srednja Europa.

Langston, Keith. 2006. Čakavian Prosody: The Accentual Patterns of the Čakavian Dialects of Croatian. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers.

Articles Featuring Keith Langston

Dr. Keith Langston was honored this week for his "influential vision and leadership" and "significant impact on UGA" with the title of 2023-2024 University Professor alongside Dr. Paula Lemons, Professor and Associate Dean of Franklin College. 

This past summer, Linguistics faculty and students represented UGA at several conferences. We are excited about all of the phenomenal research taking place in the department, and we would like to take the opportunity to recognize some of the projects that…

Keith Langston, Professor of Linguistics, was recently awarded a three-year, $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study endangered languages on the Istrian peninsula of Croatia and the Kvarner Bay in the northern Adriatic Sea.

Support Linguistics at UGA

Your donations to the Department of Linguistics will support research and travel opportunities for students and faculty and other initiatives to enhance students' education in linguistics. Please consider joining other friends and alumni who have shown their support by making a gift to our fund. We greatly appreciate your contributions to the success of our programs!  

EVERY DOLLAR CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEPARTMENT HAS A DIRECT IMPACT ON OUR STUDENTS AND FACULTY.