Student spotlight: Nianpo Su
Nianpo Su, doctoral candidate in linguistics, studies how syntactic principles determine the structure of sentences in human languages.
Read moreLinguistics, 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.
Nianpo Su, doctoral candidate in linguistics, studies how syntactic principles determine the structure of sentences in human languages.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreLisa Sunde also helps to advise the American Sign Language club and manages the weekly ASL conversation hour in the Language Resource Center.
Read more“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.
Read moreCongratulations to Nielson Hul, Linguistics Ph.D. candidate, who has been selected to head the Khmer Language Program at the University of Washington at Seattle.
Read moreTo 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.
Read moreCongratulations to graduate student Charlotte Logan on winning the Elouise Cobell Dissertation Fellowship in 2024.
Read moreCornell, the only institution offering regular multilevel instruction in all six of the major Southeast Asian languages – Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Filipino (Tagalog), Thai and Vietnamese – will host a conference on the teaching of these languages on Sept. 19-21.
Read moreDiscover 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.