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.There are two categories of awards, which are described below.

UGA Linguistics alum, Dr. Doug Merchant (PhD class of 2019) was recently published in the journal Natural Language and Theory. His paper, "What's in the bucket? Aspectual (non)compositionality in phrasal idioms" can be found in Volume 39, issue 4 released in November 2021.

To read more, follow the link below:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11049-021-09528-9

The NWAV 29 Conference (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) was held virtually hosted by the University of Texas at Austin October 19-24, and the University of Georgia's Linguistics Department was well represented!

Dr. Peggy Renwick co-authored two papers that were presented: one with former UGA Linguistics graduate Joseph Stanley "100 Years of Georgia English", and the second with current Linguistics graduate student Keiko Bridwell "Social predictors of the wine-whine merger in the US South".

The Red and Black recently published an article profiling PhD student Shannon Rodriguez and her research on the Southern Latinx community. Read the article here to learn more about her research: https://www.redandblack.com/uganews/uga-linguistics-scholar-conducts-research-on-southern-latinx-community/article_27dad1e4-2dc7-11ec-b5ea-1bd265fcdc0a.html

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Georgia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor to begin August 1, 2022. We seek a candidate whose research focuses on the use of experimental methods and/or computational models to understand how language is acquired, processed, and perceived. Emphasis on bi-/multilingualism preferred.

Congratulations to PhD student Jean Costa Silva, who recently published a chapter titled "A revista de um programa de português como ferramenta didática: uma alternativa translíngue e multicultural (The magazine of a Portuguese program as a pedagogical tool for translanguaging and multiculturalism)", co-authored with Juliano Saccomani (University of Chicago), in the volume Microgeopolitics of the Portuguese Language.

A volume of papers co-edited by Vera Lee-Schoenfeld and Dennis Ott, titled Parameters of Predicate Fronting, was published by Oxford University Press this summer. This book showcases state-of-the-art research on predicate fronting and the parameters governing its realization in a range of diverse languages, including English, German, Malagasy, Niuean, Ch'ol, Asante, Twi, Limbum, Krachi, Hebrew, and multiple sign languages.

The Linguistics Society at the University of Georgia is proud to present the 7th Annual Linguistics Conference at UGA on October 9th and 10th, 2021! The central focus of this year’s conference is ''Language and Connection.'' We will host presentations with creative interpretations of the central theme and that span academic fields, as well as connect academia with the larger community. We are proud to welcome our plenary speakers, Dr. Lelia Glass of Georgia Tech and Dr.

The Linguistics Society at the University of Georgia is proud to present the 7th Annual Linguistics Conference at UGA on October 9th and 10th, 2021! The central focus of this year’s conference is ''Language and Connection.'' We will host presentations with creative interpretations of the central theme and that span academic fields, as well as connect academia with the larger community. We are proud to welcome our plenary speakers, Dr. Lelia Glass of Georgia Tech and Dr.

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.