The Linguistics Society at UGA is pleased to announce the Linguistics Conference at University of Georgia (LCUGA 2024) on February 17-18th (in-person) in Athens, GA.

The theme of this year's conference is "Modeling Language." We are excited to announce this year's plenary speakers: Luis Ulloa (PhD Candidate, SUNY: University at Buffalo) and Dr. Sashank Varma (Professor, Georgia Tech).

We are excited to announce our first series of events related to the UNESCO Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032, a global initiative to emphasize the value and importance of preserving and revitalizing indigenous languages.

It’s the end of another great semester! The Linguistics department is so proud of everything our students and faculty have accomplished this year, including several paper presentations and conference attendances. 

This week, Linguistics Ph.D. students Keiko Bridwell and Amelia Abbott received Graduate Research Awards from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Advisory Board. The scholarships were awarded to fund Bridwell and Abbott's respective research efforts. 

This past summer, Linguistics faculty and students represented UGA at several conferences. We are excited about all of the phenomenal research taking place in the department, and we would like to take the opportunity to recognize some of the projects that were shared with other researchers across the world over the summer.

Professor Tianming Liu is presenting an invited talk by video to SUNY Albany. 

UGA Linguistics faculty members Dr. Margaret Renwick and Dr. Jon Forrest were featured in this week's Columns article, discussing the rapid decline of the Georgia accent among younger generations.