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!

Two Linguistics doctoral students receive 2019 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award!

Andrew Bray received the award for his teaching assistance in the Department of Linguistics and Dot-Eum Kim received the award for her teaching assistance in the Department of Comparative Literature.

The University of Georgia Department of Linguistics hosted Dr. William Matchin, Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South Carolina, for a guest lecture on March 6, 2020. The title of the presentation was "The cortical organization of syntax."

The University of Georgia Department of Linguistics hosted Dr. Masaya Yoshida, Associate Professor of Linguistics at Northwestern University, for a guest lecture on February 28, 2020. The title of the presentation was "Syntactic Prediction in Online Sentence processing."

All students are invited to attend the free Discovery Showcase for Majors, Minors, Certificate Programs and Double Dawgs Pathway program. The Discovery Showcase seeks to guide students on their major and career paths at UGA.

Zlata Liwschin, a visiting research scholar from Leibniz Universität Hannover, will be presenting a talk titled “Grammaticalization of Aspect in German and its diachronic parallels in English."

Please join Linguistics PhD Candidate, Joey Stanley, for a workshop on presenting yourself professionally in a digital world!

Topics will include:

Published this month by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman Littlefield, Climate Consciousness and Environmental Activism in Composition: Writing to Save the World (Ecocritical Theory and Practice) edited by Dr. Joseph R. Lease.

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