This May, Michael Wolfman’s essay “Parallelism in Language: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of English and Indonesian” appears in The Classic, the Writing Intensive Program’s journal of undergraduate writing and research. Wolfman’s essay compares aspects of the English language and aspects of the Indonesian language. You can read the latest issue and find out more about The Classic online at http://theclassicjournal.uga.edu/. 

The Department of Linguistics congratulates our Spring and Summer 2020 graduates! We have 21 students completing our undergraduate degree program and 3 who are receiving their Ph.D. degrees. Please see below for profiles of some of our graduating students.

To our students: We may not be able to celebrate face-to-face, but we can celebrate virtually! We are incredibly proud and excited for each and every one of you, and wish you the very best in your future endeavors!

Go Dawgs!

Thanks to a generous endowment created by Michael H. and Nancy E. Scarbrough, the Department of Linguistics was able to offer funding to support undergraduate research projects.

James West, an undergraduate student studying Linguistics and Computer Science, is our first recipient to receive the Spark Award for Undergraduate Research in Linguistics for his project - "A Lexical-Functional Grammar for the Irish Language."

Congratulations to Dot-Eum (Rachel) Kim for successfully defending her QP2 entitled “Korean Americans: [+back] on the B/OW/T”. Rachel’s committee was impressed with her solid and compelling research regarding the speech of Korean Americans in Georgia. This is indeed innovative and novel work that will no doubt be proceeded by lots more interesting findings. She has now been admitted to candidacy!

Congratulations to Linguistics Ph.D. Candidate, Mike Olsen, for being selected to receive a Graduate School Dissertation Completion Award for the 2020-2021 academic year.

The Dissertation Completion Awards are designed to assist doctoral students who are writing their dissertations by enabling students to concentrate solely on research and writing.

Recipients are selected through a competitive process, and awards are made to students who demonstrate superior academic performance and research productivity and who are likely to become leaders in their fields.

It's Honors Week here at UGA. This is a time where we recognize our best and brightest students. We would like to congratulate Bailey Bigott for receiving the Presidential Award of Excellence and Garrett Klawuhn for being recognized as a First Honors Graduate!

Congratulations for earning these accolades this year!

Congratulations to Linguistics doctoral student, Kit Callaway, for successfully defending their 2nd qualifying paper entitled "A Wise Man Always Watches Their Words: Acceptability Variation in Singular They" and being admitted to candidacy!