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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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 […]
Frank Seidel and co-PI James Essegbey of the department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures will create a dictionary of Baga Mandori, a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Basse-Cote region of Guinea-Conakry, West Africa. Baga Mandori is one of seven Baga languages, all of which are under-documented. The project will result in a dictionary, a grammatical […]
Professor Anthony is a Professor of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. He will be giving a talk entitled “From Morphology to Semantics to the Big Bang Theory: Application of Corpus Tools and Techniques in Applied Linguistics Research” in Dauer 215 at 10am, August 15, 2013. He will then lead […]
This is the second annual training workshop on multi-modal language documentation for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, led by Dr. Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Program Director, Endangered Languages Documentation Program, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. It is organized by the Linguistics Department, the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and Center for African Studies, University of Florida.