Due to emerging events and restrictions due to COVID-19, the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 2020 has been cancelled. 

The UGA Departments of Germanic & Slavic Studies and Linguistics will host the 26th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference from April 2-4 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.

Spring 2020 classes begin on Tuesday, January 7, 2020. See the Department of Linguistics course schedule for our course offerings.

There will be a screening of the documentary "Talking Black in America" at the Athens-Clarke County Library in the Jon and Virginia Appleton Auditorium. The documentary talks about the formation and history of African American Language in the United States, as well as the functions it serves in the community. Linguistics Assistant Professor, Dr. Jon Forrest will be giving a short introduction and co-hosting a Q&A with Dr. Barbara McCaskill from the Department of English after the screening.

The Department of Linguistics held a Final Project Poster Conference on December 4th, 2019 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm at the Georgia Center. Students from our Field Methods, Natural Language Processing, and Text & Corpus classes presented their final project posters. Over 40 different posters were presented on a variety of topics by undergraduate and graduate students. Please take a look at our picture gallery below.

University of Georgia Linguistics Faculty and Graduate Students will be presenting at the 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, in San Diego, California, December 2-6, 2019.

Dr. Margaret Renwick with Yanming Shi and Fred Maier of UGA's Institute for Artificial Intelligence: "Improved Vowel Labeling for Prenasal Merger Using Customized Forced Alignment."

Two former UGA Linguistics graduate students, Ryan Hearn,M.A.'14 and Joseph Rhyne,M.A.'17 were recently credited with creating an alien language Torfan for the "Captain Marvel" film released this year.

The Department of Linguistics is currently accepting applications to its M.A. and Ph.D. degree programs! Deadline to apply is January 1st, 2020.

Dr. John Hale presented a poster on "Text Genre & Training Data Size in Human-Like Parsing" along with Adhiguna Kuncoro (DeepMind & Oxford), Keith B. Hall (Google NYC), Chris Dyer (DeepMind), and Jonathan Brennan (University of Michigan) at the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing in Hong Kong, November 3-7 2019.

Linguistics Ph.D. Student, Betsy Miller, recently represented UGA’s Office of Instruction as a student panelist at the Southeast Regional Conference for the International Center for Academic Integrity held at Emory University October 25-26, 2019.  She was commended for representing the department with insightful comments about her experiences serving as academic honesty student panelist.

Please Note: Course offerings are subject to change due to budgetary restrictions or other contingencies. No class or section will be continued or offered if the enrollment does not meet minimum University requirements at the end of the registration period. Please visit Athena to access a searchable schedule of classes.