Congratulations to Heidi Harley, Alex Trueman, Skye Anderson, Noah Nelson, Ryan Walter Smith, Jianrong Yu, and Adam King for having presentations in the WSCLA program this year! Check out this year's program for more details if you are curious.

Tyler Peterson and Ofelia Zepeda were awarded an NSF grant for a project titled "Workshop: Assessing and Documenting the Vitality of Native American Languages." Learn more about the project and the grant here: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1601738&HistoricalAwards...

Robert Henderson and his colleague Ryan Bennett (Yale) have just received a three and a half year collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation to do research documenting and describing aspects of the endangered Mayan language Uspanteko. The grant is entitled "Collaborative Research: Investigations into tone and stress in a complex prosodic system". Find out more at the NSF website: http... Read more

Robert Henderson was recently in Paris to give an invited talk at the Co-Distributivity Workshop 2016 held at CNRS as part of the Structures Formelles du Langage group. He spoke about how his recent work on dependent indefinites in Kaqchikel extends to typologically different languages. You can check out the program here: http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/journees-co-distributivite-2016-workshop-co-... Read more

William Cotter, joint PhD student in Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Arizona recently contributed a feature article to the February 2016 issue of Babel - The Language Magazine. Babel highlights linguistic research in an accessible format for general audiences. Cotter's article uses Palestinian Arabic as a case study for examining the effect of political conflict on language change and stems from his ongoing research on Arabic dialect contact in the Gaza Strip and northern... Read more

Natasha Warner was featured in an article on the UAnews website today, covering her efforts in helping to publish a Mutsun-English English-Mutsun dictionary. This is a result of many years of effort! Read the entire article here.

Aresta La Russo and her work at UA teaching Navajo was recently highlighted for Arizona PBS. Aresta, who has been teaching Navajo since 2010, talks about the language with Gilbert Cordova, as well as new technology for learning the langauge. Make sure you check out it here: http://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2016/01/27/technology-helps-teach-navajo-i...

William Cotter, a joint doctoral student in the Anthropology & Linguistics recently co-authored (with Uri Horesh) a lemma in the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics entitled "Sociolinguistics of Palestinian Arabic". The lemma highlights studies done in recent years that have examined language variation in varieties of Palestinian Arabic. At the same time, the lemma situates language variation in Palestinian Arabic within the larger socio-political context of the modern Middle... Read more