News

Thanks to a generous endowment created by Michael H. and Nancy E. Scarbrough, the Department of Linguistics was able to offer funding to support undergraduate research projects.

Congratulations to Dot-Eum (Rachel) Kim for successfully defending her QP2 entitled “Korean Americans: [+back] on the B/OW/T”. Rachel’s committee was impressed with her solid and compelling research regarding the speech of Korean Americans in Georgia.

Congratulations to Linguistics Ph.D. Candidate, Mike Olsen, for being selected to receive a Graduate School Dissertation Completion Award for the 2020-2021 academic year.

It's Honors Week here at UGA. This is a time where we recognize our best and brightest students. We would like to congratulate Bailey Bigott for receiving the Presidential Award of Excellence and Garrett Klawuhn for being recognized as a First Honors Graduate!

Congratulations to Linguistics doctoral student, Kit Callaway, for successfully defending their 2nd qualifying paper entitled "A Wise Man Always Watches Their Words: Acceptability Variation in Singular They" and being admitted to candidacy!