Drs. McLaughlin and Essegbey have received an award from NSF’s DEL program to host a summer school on language documentation in Ghana in Summer 2017.
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MA student Jordan Mackenzie has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to conduct research in Trinidad next year. He will be compiling an annotated lexicon of food terms as part of a larger pan-Caribbean and African project.
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PhD student Marc Matthews is this year’s Linguistic Society of America intern. He was selected from among 137 applicants and will be spending the summer at the LSA headquarters in Washington, DC. Marc will learn more about the field of linguistics, the professional needs of LSA members, and the LSA’s broader agenda to advance the scientific study […]
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Jordan Mackenzie’s photo Mashambani Mwa Mwani/In the Seaweed Fields placed 3rd in the University of Florida International Center’s Global Culture Photo Contest. The photo can be seen here and on the University of Florida home page.
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Zoe Ziliak Michel, a University of Florida Ph.D. in linguistics, has been named a 2015 American Council of Learned Societies Public Fellow. Michel joins a cohort of 22 Public Fellows who will take up full-time staff positions at a range of nonprofit and government organizations across the United States and, for the first time, in […]
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Senior Nicholas Feroce (http://www.scholars.ufl.edu/nicholas-feroce.aspx) won a best paper award for h is UF undergraduate research paper “Predictive processing in semantically constrained sentences”. He is mentored by Dr. Edith Kaan in Linguistics.
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Congratulations to MA student Jordan Mackenzie for receiving a FLAS fellowship to study Swahili during the 2015-2016 academic year!
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Florida Linguistics Papers is a publication of the University of Florida Linguistics Department. It is an open-access forum for a range of scholarly publishing including but not limited to research by the faculty and students of the University of Florida Linguistics Department, conference proceedings, and occasional papers. The first volume contains the proceedings of the […]
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UF Linguist Diana Boxer discusses the origin and use of thug in recent events, with WJCT news
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