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UGA Linguistics Faculty and Graduate Students present at the 2018 American Dialect Society annual conference

University of Georgia Linguistics Faculty and Graduate Students presented at the 2018 American Dialect Society annual conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, January 4-7, 2018.

Walt Wolfram film screening

4th Annual Linguistics Conference at UGA

The 4th annual Linguistics Conference at UGA took place October 6-7 at the Miller Learning Center. The conference program featured over 30 presenters from colleges and universities in Alabama, Arizona, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, New York,…

Keith Langston in Ljubljana

12th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society

Dr. Keith Langston presented a paper "Corpus planning and corpus data: Language advice and actual usage in Croatian" at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, September 21-24 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. 

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Dr. Pilar Chamorro researches Tenetehára in Brazil

Dr. Chamorro spent time this summer collecting data to investigate temporal reference in Tenetehára. She found that the language has a ‘graded past tense system’ with three degrees of remoteness and an evidentiality system that conflates temporal and source of reported information.

Portrait of Richard Friedman

Dr. Richard Friedman publishes new book

 

 

 

 

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