Drs. McLaughlin and Essegbey receive NSF grant to host 2017 summer school in Ghana
September 8, 2016Drs. 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 awarded Fulbright to Trinidad
May 4, 2016MA student Jordan Mackenzie has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to conduct research in Trinidad next year. He will be compiling an annotated lexicon of ...
PhD student Marc Matthews chosen as LSA summer intern
May 4, 2016PhD 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 ...
Dr. Hélène Blondeau selected as CLAS nominee for International Educator of the Year
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Jordan Mackenzie wins award in UFIC Global Culture Photo Contest
November 17, 2015Jordan 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 ...
Linguistics Ph.D Zoe Ziliak Michel named ACLS Public Fellow
June 6, 2015Zoe Ziliak Michel, a University of Florida Ph.D. in linguistics, has been named a 2015 American Council of Learned Societies Public Fellow.
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Nick Feroce receives best paper award for undergraduate research
March 20, 2015Senior 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 ...
Jordan Mackenzie awarded FLAS fellowship to study Swahili
March 20, 2015Congratulations to MA student Jordan Mackenzie for receiving a FLAS fellowship to study Swahili during the 2015-2016 academic year!
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First volume of Florida Linguistics Papers published online
October 17, 2014Florida 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 ...
UF Linguist Diana Boxer discusses the origin and use of “thug”
February 26, 2014UF Linguist Diana Boxer discusses the origin and use of thug in recent events, with WJCT news
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UF Linguists win Language Documentation Funding
January 1, 2014Associate 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 ...
Linguists Frank Seidel and James Essegbey (Languages, Literatures & Cultures) receive NEH Documenting Endangered Languages grant to study Baga language of West Africa
January 1, 2014Frank 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 ...