2024-05-16 - The Linguistics Department just hosted the 17th Meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA-17)! The biannual academic conference took place on May 2nd – 4th at the Levis Faculty Center and attracted 148 registered attendees.  GASLA-17 welcomed linguists to present theoretically informed research...

2024-05-14 - We are excited to announce that Computational Construction Grammar by UIUC's Jonathan Dunn was published last week by Cambridge University Press! This Element introduces a usage-based computational approach to Construction Grammar that draws on techniques from natural language processing and unsupervised machine learning. This work explores how to represent constructions, how...

2024-05-13 - The U.S. Department of State announced the selection of UIUC ESL Senior Lecturer John Kotnarowski for an English Language Specialist project focusing on teaching academic writing in Kazakhstan. Kotnarowski is part of a select group, as his project is one of over 250 that the English Language Specialist Program supports each year.    To learn more about John's work and...

2024-05-09 - Through April 19-21, 2024, a significant milestone was achieved with the inception of the inaugural U.S. Universities Arabic Midwest Debate Championship at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The event was coordinated by the Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Program and the...

2024-05-06 - On Wednesday May 1st, our department gathered for its annual Year-End Graduation and Awards Celebration.   It was a wonderful time to reflect on the past year, and to recognize our amazing students. Congratulations to our awardees! We wish you continued growth and success!   Awards Prestigious Non- Departmental Awards Graduate College dissertation completion fellowship (23-24 AY...

2024-04-23 - The 17th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) conference will take place at the UIUC campus May 2-4, 2024 in the Levis Faculty Center. GASLA-17 is a venue for linguists to present theoretically informed research on second language acquisition. The target audience includes linguists - both faculty and graduate students - from UIUC and other...

2024-04-22 - Four University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students were awarded U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships to study foreign languages this summer. Shireen Aydogan, Xavier Davenport, Karel Pene and Sylvia Techmanski received full scholarships to spend 8-10 weeks abroad studying one of 14 critical languages....

2024-04-17 - We cordially invite you to join the the Linguistics Student Award and Graduate Recognition Ceremony and the Chin-Woo Kim Phonetics Laboratory Naming and Dedication Ceremony that will take place in Lucy Ellis Lounge on Wednesday, May 1, 4pm - 6pm. Join us in celebration of an excellent year's work from our wonderful students and to look ahead to the exciting new future of the Chin-Woo Kim...

2024-04-15 - We are excited to recognize Dr. Eman Saadah for receiving the 2024 SLCL Diversity & Engagement Award!  This award recognizes alumni or members of the community at large who have made significant contributions (tangible and intangible) to the SLCL community; contributions which strengthen our public service mission, our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusivity, and our...

2024-04-08 - During its annual Fund Drive, the Linguist List features undergraduate and early-career graduate students who have gone above and beyond the classroom to participate in the wider field of linguistics. Selected nominees exemplify a commitment to not only academic performance, but also to the field of linguistics and principles of scientific inquiry. This year's nomination for Rising Star is none...

2024-04-03 - We are pleased to announce that Dr. Silvina Montrul will give a plenary address at the 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). The Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) is one of the largest student-run linguistics conferences in the world. BUCLD is an internationally recognized meeting of...

2024-03-19 - We are proud to announce that a new volume edited by Professors Tania Ionin and Silvina Montrul has just been released!  The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and Semantics was released on March 11, 2024, published by Routledge.  In addition to editing this volume alongside Roumyana Slabakova, Tania and Silvina contributed to several...

2024-03-07 - The 17th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) conference will take place at the UIUC campus May 2-4, 2024 in the Levis Faculty Center. GASLA-17 is a venue for linguists to present theoretically informed research on second language acquisition. The target audience includes linguists - both faculty and graduate students - from UIUC and other...

2024-03-07 -   The Linguistics graduate students at U of I just hosted the 16th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society! The annual academic conference took place on March 1st – 2nd at the I Hotel & Illinois Conference Center  and attracted over 180 attendees.  Attendees came from all over the world to join us at...

2024-02-06 - We would like to welcome new faculty members for whom Spring is their first semester. Let's meet these new additions to the department! Jonathan Dunn (Associate Professor) Tell us a little bit about yourself I am a computational linguist. To me, that means using computational models to conduct corpus-based experiments. I’ve been working in syntax (e.g., grammar induction,...