Alumna Sylvia Schreiner (PhD. 2012) has accepted a tenure-track position in syntax at George Mason University, beginning Fall 2017.

Professor Noam Chomsky after an informal seminar with faculty members and graduate and prospective students of the Department of Linguistics on February 24, 2017. Professor Chomsky is on an extended visit to the University of Arizona, teaching a 7 week undergraduate course in politics as well as giving a series of talks in the graduate level course offered by the Department of Linguistics titled Biolinguistics.

Using language invention as a way to teach introductory linguistics to University students is catching on. UA Linguistics has long been offering a Tier One general education course in which students invent a language, and as graduate students earn their degrees and move on to jobs at other institutions, they've taken this approach with them.

UA Linguistics faculty member Amy Fountain collaborated with Jeffrey Punske, now Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University,... Read more

Joint Anthropology & Linguistics PhD student William M. Cotter recently published a review of Reem Bassiouney's most recent book, "Language and Identity in Modern Egypt" (Oxford University Press) in the journal Al-'Arabiyya.

William M. Cotter, Jessica Ray, and Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, all joint Ph.D. students in Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Arizona recently traveled to Minneapolis, MN to present their research at the 115th meeting of the American Anthropological Association. William delivered a paper on discourse within professional barista competitions and the links between these forms of discourse and broader transnational economic regimes that effect the global coffee industry. Together... Read more

Joint Anthropology & Linguistics PhD students William M. Cotter, Jessica Ray, and Priscilla Shin traveled to Simon Fraser University in Vancouver to present their research at the 45th meeting of the New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference. All three students presented results from their ongoing research conducted in the Department of Linguistics and School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. William was also awarded a $525 travel grant from the organizing committee of NWAV... Read more

Doctoral students William Cotter, Skye Anderson, and Elise Bell were recently awarded a $1,000 Research and Projects Grant from the Graduate and Professional Student Council to study the phonetics of Hijazi Arabic, a variety of Arabic spoken in western Saudi Arabia. The project will investigate a set of consonants in Arabic that show considerable phonetic variation across different Arabic varieties and will provide an acoustic account of how these consonants affect surrounding sounds.

The American Indian Language Development Institute teamed up with UA Linguists and the Gila River Indian Community's Huhugam Heritage Center to offer a workshop for Native American community members on the development of digital language resources for their communities on September 19-20. The workshop was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Documenting Endangered Languages Program (NSF-DEL, BCS-1160394) Leading the two-day workshop were Shannon Bischoff (UA... Read more