The University of Georgia will be hosting the fifth annual Language Varieties in the South (LAVIS) conference in conjunction with the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) in April of 2024.

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Can Large Language Models (LLMs) impact the pace and direction of change by altering stable patterns in language? Singular vs. Plural variation is commonly observed cross-linguistically, particularly in contexts with a collective subject such as ‘majority’ that agrees with a verb and/or adjective in a phrase as in Spanish la mayoría está/están de acuerdo en ‘the majority agrees/agree’.

UGA Linguistics Ph.D. candidate Tucker Hardison recently presented his research at the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference, held August 20–22 at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. The annual conference brings together scholars from around the world to explore intersections of language, gender, sexuality, and identity.