This November, Michael Wolfman’s essay “Parallelism in Language: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of English and Indonesian” appears again in The Classic, the Writing Intensive Program’s journal of undergraduate writing and research. This paper compares the English and Indonesian language in the context of generative grammar.

This November, Alpha Smith’s essay “The Unrealized Universality of Phrase Structure: An Analysis of Similarities Between Japanese and English” appears in The Classic, the Writing Intensive Program’s journal of undergraduate writing and research. This paper seeks to compare English and Japanese, revealing similarities between the two languages.

The Writing Intensive Program has just released Volume 5, Issue 2 of The Classic, their second special issue featuring five articles from students in Generative Syntax (LING 3150W). This issue was guest edited by Dr. Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, Associate Professor of linguistics, and Jonathan Crum, linguistics PhD student.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2021 Spark Award For Undergraduate Research in Linguistics! Thanks to a generous endowment created by Michael H. and Nancy E. Scarbrough, the Department of Linguistics is able to offer funding to support undergraduate research projects. The maximum budget is $1000.

Wednesday at 4:00 EST, Join Katie Kuiper, a PhD candidate in Linguistics and a DigiLab TA, as she presents a series of digital Zoom workshops on data visualization. This week's topic will focus on creating scatterplots in Excel, Tableau, and R. Contact digi@uga.edu for the Zoom link to this event.

Next Wednesday, November 11 at 5:00 PM EST join current UGA Linguistics faculty Dr. Margaret Renwick and recent UGA Linguistics graduate Dr. Joey Stanley (Now a faculty member at BYU) as they present "100 Years of Speech in Georgia" a workshop on language, technology, and society in an event sponsored by the Institute for People & Technology, the GVU Center, and the Atlanta Global Studies Center. Use https://bluejeans.com/4473252229 to access this event.

Dr. Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, Associate Professor of Linguistics and former UGA undergraduate Linguistics major Nicholas Twiner recently co-authored a proceedings paper that has been published in the current edition of the journal Nordlyd: "German passives and English benefactives: The need for non-canonical accusative case". Dr. Lee-Shoenfeld is pictured here at the Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held in Konstanz, Germany in the Summer of 2019 presenting ideas that this article is based on. Nick is now continuing his Linguistics studies as a Ph.D.

The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Advisory Board has awarded Shannon Rodriguez a Graduate Research Award to help fund her dissertation research, the Latino Voices in Georgia Project (LVGP). The LVGP aims to document Latino voices and identities via sociolinguistic interviews and audio-response surveys.