The department will celebrate its 50th anniversary at the Austin Cary Forest Campus, Saturday, November 9, 2019, from 5-9pm. Please join us for food, music, and half a century’s worth of memories and people.
Linguistics at the University of Florida started in 1969, with an interdisciplinary faculty and MA and PhD degrees. We will celebrate this milestone in 2019-2020 with various events, including a celebration at the Austin Cary Forest Campus on Saturday, November 9. Please join us at the dinner, send us your recollections, or just check in […]
The 6th Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting will be held March 13-14, 2020 at the University of Florida. Visit the conference website for more information.
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D. Gary Miller (1942–2019), renowned Indo-Europeanist and theoretical linguist, has died at the age of 76. Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Gary Miller attended Moravian College as an undergraduate. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1969, with a dissertation entitled Studies in Some Forms of the Genitive Singular in Indo-European. He subsequently taught at the […]
CalPoly Pomona undergraduate Beverly Cotter completed UF’s Summer Research at Florida (SURF) program, under the supervision of Dr. Eleonora Rossi and Linguistics graduate student Megan Nakamura. The program included the production of a video describing the experience
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus D. Gary Miller on the publication of The Oxford Gothic Grammar (Oxford University Press, 2019). The grammar is the most comprehensive since the 1800s, with discussions of all aspects of Gothic grammar, including syntax.
Dr. Jessica Coon (McGill University) will talk about fieldwork, Universal Grammar, and her consulting work for the movie “Arrival”. The talk takes place in Turlington L011 on Thursday, April 4, at 4pm.
The 5th Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting will be held April 5-6, 2019 at the University of Florida. Talks take place from 1-6pm on Friday and 10:15am-6pm on Saturday in the Keene Faculty Center. There is a conference dinner on Saturday at 6:30, also in the Keene Faculty Center. The meeting is sponsored by the Departments […]
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Dr. Fiona McLaughlin, Professor of Linguistics and Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, has been awarded an NEH fellowship for the academic year 2019-2020. She will be investigating Trans-Saharan Literacies, Writing across the Desert. For more information see here and here.
Graduating Linguistics majors were recognized at the CLAS Student Recognition Ceremony in the Stephen C. O’Connell Center on December 15, 2018. The ceremony featured a student speaker, alumni speaker, and remarks from Associate Dean Joe Spillane and Dean David Richardson. The webcast of the ceremony can be viewed here.