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Reflections from Linguistic Fieldwork with the Guajajará Communities of Maranhão, Brazil

Dr. Pilar Chamorro will be presenting a talk as part of the 27th Annual Conference on the Americas and the UNESCO Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032. Pilar Chamorro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia. Her main areas of specialization are semantics and pragmatics with particular interest in cross-linguistic variation of form-meaning mappings. Her…


Event Series: Indigenous Languages Initiative

2024 UNESCO Decade of Indigenous Languages Lecture Part 2  Rainy Brake was the first certified teacher in the EBCI New Kituwah Academy Cherokee Immersion Program, and is currently Cherokee Language Instructor at Western Carolina University's Cherokee Language Revitalization Program. Rainy has a BA in English Literature and a Graduate Certificate in Cherokee Language.  Rainy also studies the effects of language immersion pedagogy on…


HUMANITIES@WORK Speaker Series

The HUMANITIES@WORK speaker event will highlight four folks with careers at UGA who started out as humanities majors. This panel will take place on Wednesday, October 11th at 3 p.m. in the Park Hall Auditorium (room 265). This free event is the first in a series that will take place every October. This year's speakers include: Alan Flurry, Director of Communications in the Franklin College at UGA Dr. Mike Merva, Coordinator, Franklin College…


Drew Hoffmaster presents Spark Undergraduate Research Project

Join us for a presentation by Drew Hoffmaster, this year's Spark Undergraduate Research Award recipient, as he presents his research project "The Closer you Look, the Weirder it Gets! English Comparative Correlatives: Para- or Hypotaxis". The Spark Award for Undergraduate Research is made possible each year thanks to a generous endowment created by Michael H. and Nancy E. Scarbrough, providing funding to support undergraduate research projects…


Python For Humanists

The next installment of Digilab workshops, the "Python for Humanists" series, will be offered on Friday October 14, 21, and 28. This workshop series will provide an introduction to Python that may be useful for individual's with no programming experience. They just need to arrive having installed Python (https://www.tutorialsteacher.com/python/install-python) and Jupyter Notebooks(https://www.datacamp.com/tutorial/installing-jupyter-notebook).…


Undergrad Mentoring Program Meet and Greet

The Department of Linguistics is starting a new mentoring program that will pair undergraduate students with a faculty mentor, which will provide opportunities for students to get involved with faculty research projects, explore possible research topics of their own, talk about summer programs, graduate study and careers in linguistics, or just learn more about topics that interest them. All undergraduate Linguistics majors and graduate students…


Dr. Michał Głuszkowski to lead workshop "The use of sociology and social science methodology in linguistics"

Dr. Michał Głuszkowski will lead a workshop "The use of sociology and social science methodology in linguistics”.    This workshop will examine historical and contemporary relationships between sociology and linguistics, focusing on the application of sociological methods and theoretical approaches to language contact. Cooperation between representatives of the given disciplines is possible on the grounds of structuralism and, in fact…


Dr. Michał Głuszkowski to present “Sociolinguistic processes in language islands"

We are pleased to host a presentation by Dr. Michał Głuszkowski, visiting scholar from Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu (Nicolaus Copernicus University) who will presenting research entitled “Sociolinguistic processes in language islands". The abstract for Dr. Głuszkowski 's presentation is provided below.   Abstract: The problems of the language island situation have been known in the humanities for over 160 years. However, in…


Virtual Workshop: Using R to work with the UGA Corpus Server

The Department of Linguistics will be hosting two virtual workshops to introduce participants to the basics of how to access and work with text corpora available on the UGA Corpus Server. Contact Dr. Chad Howe (chowe@uga.edu) to set up an account prior to the workshop and to get the link for the Zoom meeting.


Virtual Workshop: Introduction to the UGA Corpus Server and Open Corpus Workbench

The Department of Linguistics will be hosting two virtual workshops to introduce participants to the basics of how to access and work with text corpora available on the UGA Corpus Server. Contact Dr. Chad Howe (chowe@uga.edu) to set up an account prior to the workshop and to get the link for the Zoom meeting.
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