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".

Join us on Wednesday February 24 at 3:30PM EST for a discussion with Joy Peltier, PhD Candidate in linguistics at the University of Michigan. She will discuss her research on the pragmatics of multifunctional items in Kwéyòl Donmnik (KD), an understudied French- and English-influenced Lesser Antillean Creole. To access this Zoom event, please use the following Zoom link with your UGA credentials: https://zoom.us/s/99029600375

Join us for a discussion with Joy Peltier, PhD Candidate in linguistics at the University of Michigan. She will discuss her research on the pragmatics of multifunctional items in Kwéyòl Donmnik (KD), an understudied French- and English-influenced Lesser Antillean Creole. To access this event, please using the following Zoom link with your UGA credentials: https://zoom.us/s/99029600375

Applications are due by February 1 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.

Join us for a discussion with Lars Hinrichs, associate professor of linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, and Axel Bohmann, assistant professor of English at University of Freiburg in Germany. They will discuss the building of the Digital Archive of Texas English Speech, a legacy archive containing recordings from 1934 to 2020, and how it can be used to map linguistic changes in Texas English over time.

Applications are due for the 2021 Spark Award For Undergraduate Research in Linguistics.  Applications for the Spark Award for Undergraduate Research can be completed by filling out the following form: 2021%20Undergraduate%20Research%20Awards%20-%20Call%20for%20Applications.pdf  and emailing it to linguistics@uga.edu.

Date the Graduate School will accept theses/dissertations for format checks for future graduations.

Date of degree conferral. Diplomas will be mailed approximately six to eight weeks after graduation. Address changes, if necessary, should be made with the Office of the Registrar to ensure receipt of diplomas. Students completing degree requirements during Summer 2021 will have the option to participate in Fall 2021 commencement ceremony.