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 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.

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.

Want to learn more about corpus linguistics? The Linguistics Department will be holding a pair of virtual workshops to introduce participants to basic corpus tools available to everyone at UGA.

Friday, September 17th, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Introduction to the UGA Corpus Server and the Open Corpus Workbench

(note time change!) Thursday, September 30th, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Using R to work with the UGA Corpus Server (with the package PolmineR)

The University of Georgia Graduate School hosted the 10th annual Three Minute Thesis competition in a virtual ceremony on April 8. Better known by the acronym 3MT, the competition requires contestants to explain their thesis or dissertation topic and its significance in three minutes or less using only a single static presentation slide.

This year’s grand prize winner was Judith M. Reyes Ballista, a doctoral student in the Department of Infectious Diseases, for her presentation titled “The Grinch of the Cells.”

Please join us on Wednesday April 21 at 12:40PM EST for a discussion with Dr. Lena Borise, a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Linguistics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a Departmental Associate in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University, as she presents "Focus Projection Need Not be Based on Pitch Accents: Evidence from Georgian".

Please join us on Wednesday April 21 at 12:40PM EST for a discussion with Dr. Lena Borise, a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Linguistics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a Departmental Associate in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University, as she presents "Focus Projection Need Not be Based on Pitch Accents: Evidence from Georgian".