Kevin Tang receives seed funding for COVID-19-related research

In collaboration with UF BEBR/CTSI Network Science Lab, and One Health research, Kevin Tang has been awarded a seed grant from the UF Informatics Institute’s COVID-19 Response Seed Funding initiative. The project, “The emergence of COVID-19 team science: tracking topics, networks and expertise in global COVID-19 research”, will analyze a unique combination of big bibliographic data […]

Emily Rine Butler featured in Atlantic article on greetings in this time of pandemic

Emily Rine Butler, Ph.D is interviewed in an article in The Atlantic on greetings during a pandemic, when “How are you?” seems inappropriate. Read it here.

Rossi, Kaan, and Nakamura featured in Explore

Assistant Professor Eleonora Rossi, Associate Professor Edith Kaan, and Linguistics graduate student Megan Nakamura are featured in the most recent edition of Explore, UF Research’s quarterly magazine. The article highlights their on-going research in the Brain, Language, and Bilingualism Lab.

Josh Martin awarded O. Ruth McQuown Scholarship

Congratulations to PhD student Josh Martin, who received an O. Ruth McQuown Scholarship Award. This scholarship is awarded to students who share a, “commitment to social issues (including addressing issues and fostering opportunities for women, racial minorities and those of low socio-economic background)”.

Aleks Tomic awarded NSF grant

Congratulations to Aleks Tomic, PhD student in Linguistics working under the supervision of Edith Kaan and Jorge Valdés Kroff, whose NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, “Effects of code-switching on emotional processing”, has been recommended for funding. The project examines the effect of code switching on the emotional reactivity to taboo words.

Dr. Rossi’s AAAS 2020 flash talk

Dr. Eleonora Rossi will give a flash talk at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Seattle, Washington, February 13-16. Let’s talk! Bilingualism as One-Health approach to understand neurocognitive and social plasticity The ability to communicate is a ubiquitous experience for humans, from childhood to older age. Societies are […]

UF Linguistics 50th anniversary celebration

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.

UF Linguistics celebrates 50 years!

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 […]

UF hosts 6th Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting 2020

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.

D. Gary Miller (1942-2019)

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 […]

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