The Computer Museum of America (CMoA) visited the Linguistics Department to explore the role of Navajo language in historical encryption and technology. 

Late September, PhD Jean Costa-Silva alongside Dr. Vera Lee-Schoenfeld published the article, "Syntactically branching out beyond the traditional classroom: A report on the discovery method", in Language - the flagship journal of the Linguistics Society of America.

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This summer, Dr. Timothy Gupton, along with UGA alumni Dr. Brian Gravely, published their article, “What Formal Approaches to Syntactic Interfaces Can Tell Us about the Syntax of Preverbal and Prenominal Constituents in Galician.”

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This past summer, Dr. Joshua Bousquette visited the North American German Dialect Archive (NAGDA) at the Max Kade Institute, located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. 

As part of Dr. Keith Langston’s NSF grant, this summer some faculty and graduate students collaborated and presented on their project “Endangered Languages in Contact in Istria and Kvarner, Croatia (ELIC)” at two different conferences.

Keith Langston presented a poster at LREC-COLING 2024 in Turin, Italy in May:

The purpose of the Distinguished Scholarship & Service Award is to recognize and honor a distinguished scholar for their scholarship and service to the profession in general and to the American Association for Applied Linguistics in particular. In making this award, AAAL recognizes that contributions to equity, diversity, inclusion, and access are integral to distinguished scholarship and service.

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Georgia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor with an anticipated start date of August 1, 2025. We seek a candidate with a documented record of research in computational linguistics that engages with theoretical and methodological questions relevant to general linguistics (e.g., in the areas of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics).