Alumni, faculty, and graduate students from UHM linguistics presented at the 25th Sociolinguistics Symposium in Perth, Australia, June 24 - 27, 2024. Caroline Hendy (MA, 2021) and current PhD candidate Emma Breslow presented lexical sociolinguistic research on Jewish English in…
Linguistics faculty member Andrew Cheng has had a new article published online in Asia-Pacific Language Variation entitled: "Variation in Asian and Pacific Islander North American English: What the patterns of scholarship demonstrate about race in sociolinguistics." Be sure to check…
UH Mānoa had a strong presence at the 16th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, held June 20-24 2024 in Manila, Philippines. Linguistics faculty, current students, and alumni presented papers and participated in panels at the conference. Their presentations were: Orlyn…
Dr. Andrew Cheng was interviewed recently for the Grammar Girl podcast to chat about language, linguistics, and movies. The podcast is also available on YouTube. Congratulations Andrew!
Benny Delpada, close collaborator of UHM alumnus Andel Blake (PhD 2024), has just received the Linguistic Society of America Community Linguist Award. Benny is a linguist who has contributed substantially to the documentation and maintenance of his own Abui language…
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa invites applications from students interested in pursuing a fully-funded Ph.D. program, to begin Fall 2025, working with the NSF-funded project, Documenting endangered languages through training and capacity building among…
Linguists Dr. Emanuel Drechsel and Dr. Teresa Makuakāne-Drechsel, who have been ardent and enthusiastic supporters of ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, were recently celebrated in an article by the UH Foundation, which describes their generous gifts that honor their family and Hawaiian culture.…
Professor Amy Schafer and PhD alumnus Ivan Bondoc presented their poster "Gradient effects on pivot accessibility in Tagalog quantifier float" at the 31st meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, June 12-14 2024 in Amherst, MA. Congratulations, Amy and Ivan!
Doctoral student Carolyn Siegman interned for the LSA's Linguistics Career Launch '24 in the summer of 2024. The LCL is a programmatic effort to help students and faculty learn more about careers that welcome linguists beyond roles in academia. Congratulations,…
Doctoral student Emma Breslow and MA alumna Caroline Hendy presented their paper, "From shpiel to shemozzle: A study of familiarity with Jewish English lexical items in Australia and the United States," at the 25th Sociolinguistics Symposium in Perth, Australia, on…