19th Annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium (CULC 19)
Cornell University's undergraduate linguistics association, The UnderLings, presents its nineteenth annual undergraduate research colloquium.
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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.
Linguistics News
Call for Papers: JK32
The JK32 organizing committee is pleased to invite abstracts for submission to the 32nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference to be held at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, on June 13 – 15, 2025.
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Student spotlight: Nianpo Su
Nianpo Su, doctoral candidate in linguistics, studies how syntactic principles determine the structure of sentences in human languages.
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Call for Papers: FASL34
The Department of Linguistics at Cornell University is pleased to announce that the 34th annual meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) will be held May 16th-19th, 2025 in Ithaca, NY, USA.
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ASL program offers performance series, welcomes new faculty
Lisa Sunde also helps to advise the American Sign Language club and manages the weekly ASL conversation hour in the Language Resource Center.
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A&S announces membership in MLA Strategic Partnership Network
“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.
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Ph.D. Candidate Nielson Hul to Head the University of Washington Khmer Language Program
Congratulations to Nielson Hul, Linguistics Ph.D. candidate, who has been selected to head the Khmer Language Program at the University of Washington at Seattle.
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World Languages Days open to public this year
To celebrate Cornell’s commitment to fostering global literacy and cross-cultural understanding, the Language Resource Center in the College of Arts and Sciences will host World Languages Day on Oct. 26.
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Feb
26
Wednesday
04:30 PM
American Sign Language Conversation Hour
Stimson Hall
G25
Feb
26
Wednesday
04:30 PM
ASL Lecture Series: Rezenet Moges-Riedel
Morrill Hall
106
Mar
05
Wednesday
04:30 PM
American Sign Language Conversation Hour
Stimson Hall
G25
Mar
06
Thursday
04:30 PM
Mar
11
Tuesday
05:00 PM
The Narrative Brain
A.D. White House
Guerlac
Mar
12
Wednesday
04:30 PM
American Sign Language Conversation Hour
Stimson Hall
G25
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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