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The Department is thrilled to announce that our current chair, Dr. Laura Michaelis, was recently named a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) . This is a highly prestigious honor, recognizing career achievement, which is awarded to only a handful of linguists each year by the LSA, the...

Dr. Joseph Dupris, Jr. is joining the CU faculty this fall, 2021, where he will serve as Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and Linguistics. Dr. Dupris received his PhD in Linguistics and Anthropology from the University of Arizona in 2020. Dr. Dupris's work addresses issues around tribal language research,...

Our own Dr. Rai Farrelly has just been featured in 'Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine' ! The article reports that Dr. Farrelly has been selected by the U.S. Department of State to join a two-month English language specialist virtual project focusing on promoting global citizenship and emerging trends in English...

The CU Department of Linguistics is pleased that Dr. Ambrocio Gutiérrez Lorenzo will join our faculty in Fall 2021 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Gutiérrez Lorenzo earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in 2021, having earned his MA in 2014 at the Centro de Investigaciones y...

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce the recipients of our 2021 Linguistics Undergraduate Research Awards , also known as LURA . Each spring, the Department of Linguistics invites faculty, GPTIs, and TAs to nominate students in their classes (both introductory and advanced) who have authored outstanding essays and/or...

CU Linguistics major Evi Judge has won the 2021 David S. Rood award in Linguistics ! Awarded since 2017, the prize recognizes outstanding academic achievement, as well as potential for further success in linguistics. The scholarship is named in honor of Professor David Rood , who retired in 2016 after...

The 'Best Should Teach' committee has selected Prof. Kira Hall as a recipient of the Best Should Teach Gold Award! With this award, Prof. Hall joins an elite group of dedicated scholars, as the committee recognize only those individuals who demonstrate the exceptional talents in teaching and academic leadership that...

The Department of Linguistics has the pleasure of congratulating Prof. Rebecca Scarborough , who has just received an Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award from the Graduate School, in recognition of her work as both a dissertation advisor and graduate director. The award letter from Dean Adler reads in part: I am...

The Department is pleased to announce that Professor Zygmunt Frajzyngier and recent Ph.D. graduate Marielle Butters have recently published The Emergence of Functions in Language , with Oxford University Press (2020). This book: Explores the central question of why languages differ in the meanings expressed by their grammatical systems Outlines...

The Department is pleased to announce that Ph.D. alumna Erin Shay has just published (2021, with Brill): A Grammar of Giziga: A Chadic Language of Far North Cameroon . This is the first broad, detailed grammar of the Giziga language, which belongs to the Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language...