Doctoral student Sydney Ludlow presented her paper, "Voiceless Stops and Their Variants: A lenition continuum in Pastaza Quichua" at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas in New York City on…
Professor Brad McDonnell and PhD student Christina Truong have published a chapter called "28 Applicative constructions in languages of western Indonesia" in the volume Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages, edited by Fernando Zuniga and Denis Creissels. The volume is…
Doctoral student Clé Mayer was recently awarded a full scholarship to the GIS for Sustainability and Resilience in the Pacific Foundations Course given at UN CIFAL (Chaminade) together with the NSF and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research.…
Congratulations to PhD student Louward Zubiri on multiple news items: Louward was part of the Philippine panel at the 7th International Conference on Language and Education in Bangkok, Thailand. This conference was organized by the Asia-Pacific Multilingual Education Working Group,…
Congratulations to all our Fall 2023 graduates! BA: Bethany Cox and Liv PeraltaMA: Angeli Noelle CabreraPhD: Porpla Nusartlert, Kavon Hooshiar and Tom Dougherty
PhD student Anongnard Porpla Nusartlert and Professor Kamil Deen presented a paper at the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in May 2023. Their paper was entitled "Intergenerational Transmission of Isan and Thai: The Passive Voice as…
PhD student Emma Breslow presented her poster "The macher wears a yarmi: A comparative study of Australian and American familiarity with Jewish English lexical items" at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute in 2023. Congratulations, Emma!
In 2023, PhD students Blaine Billings and Jacob Hakim were each awarded the American Institute for Indonesian Studies - Council of American Overseas Research Centers (AIFIS-CAORC) Research Fellowship for fieldwork in Bengkulu Province, Sumatra, Indonesia working with Nasal speakers to…
On November 1-3, 2023 the department hosted a meeting of the Governance Council of the the Endangered Languages Project, welcoming three new Council members: Gabriela Perez-Baez (University of Oregon), Madoka Haminne (Meio University) and Nicholas Barla (Adivasi language advocate).
PhD student Olivia Waring has been selected to teach a workshop at CoLang 2024 which will be hosted by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and the University of Arizona in June 2024. The class is titled "Community Radio and…