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.
Read more "MA student Jordan Mackenzie awarded Fulbright to Trinidad"
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 […]
Read more "PhD student Marc Matthews chosen as LSA summer intern"
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.
Read more "Jordan Mackenzie wins award in UFIC Global Culture Photo Contest"
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 […]
Read more "Linguistics Ph.D Zoe Ziliak Michel named ACLS Public Fellow"
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.
Read more "Nick Feroce receives best paper award for undergraduate research"
Congratulations to MA student Jordan Mackenzie for receiving a FLAS fellowship to study Swahili during the 2015-2016 academic year!
Read more "Jordan Mackenzie awarded FLAS fellowship to study Swahili"
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 […]
Read more "First volume of Florida Linguistics Papers published online"
UF Linguist Diana Boxer discusses the origin and use of thug in recent events, with WJCT news
Read more "UF Linguist Diana Boxer discusses the origin and use of “thug”"
Associate Professor James Essegbey received a “Small Grant” from the Endangered Languages Documentation Program (ELDP) to document linguistic practices relating to fishing among the Dwang communities south of the Volta Lake in Ghana. Linguistics graduate student Bryan Gelles received a “Small Grant” from the Endangered Languages Documentation Program (ELDP) to begin documentation and to establish the feasibility of a […]