Milena Šereikaitė joins the Department of Linguistics
Milena Šereikaitė, a theoretical linguist specializing in syntax and morphology, will join the department as Assistant Professor in Fall 2025
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Linguistics, the systematic study of human language, lies at the crossroads of the humanities and the social sciences, drawing on a special combination of intuition and rigor that the analysis of language demands.
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Current Graduate Students Win Awards
Burak Öney and John Starr win Arts & Sciences awards. John Starr and Charlotte Logan win Provost Diversity Fellowship. Youngdong Cho, Yao Zhang, and Fengyue Lisa Zhao win East Asia Program fellowships.
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Outstanding faculty win 2025 teaching and advising awards
Among those being recognized for exceptional teaching and mentorship this year are faculty members Begüm Adalet, Claudia Verhoeven, and Marcelo Aguiar.
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'I mapped the humanitarian impact of the Wagner Group’s arrival in Mali'
Celia Doherty is majoring in linguistics.
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Language House opens to students learning ASL
Students who want an immersive on-campus experience with American Sign Language (ASL) can now sign up to live in the Language House.
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Share and hear poetry in many languages at this April 9 event
The event celebrates April as National Poetry Month.
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AI ring tracks spelled words in American Sign Language 
A Cornell-led research team has developed an artificial intelligence-powered ring equipped with micro-sonar technology that can continuously and in real time track fingerspelling in American Sign Language.
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Jing Gao, Ph.D. '24, Accepts Special Associate Research Fellow Position at the South China Normal University
Jing Gao, Ph.D. '24, Accepts Special Associate Research Fellow Position at the South China Normal University
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Language & the Law - LING 2223
Discover how language impacts the theory and practice of law. Topics include: origins of legal language, linguistics in the courtroom, plagiarism and language rights. This course also introduces areas of linguistics such as syntax, semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics, which explicate a wide range of legal matters where both spoken and written language come to fore.
1946
The year the department was founded
7117
Number of distinct languages spoken throughout the world
205
Endangered languages spoken in the United States