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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.
Jean Frantz Blackall, a Cornell faculty member from 1958-94 who in 1971 became the first woman to receive tenure in what was then the Department of English, in the College of Arts and Sciences, died July 15 in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was 97.
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Ten students who participated in this summer's Nexus Scholars Program share their stories.
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Linguist Marten van Schijndel co-led a session on “Responsible LLMs & Issues” at the summit.
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Milena Šereikaitė, a theoretical linguist specializing in syntax and morphology, will join the department as Assistant Professor in Fall 2025
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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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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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Celia Doherty is majoring in linguistics.
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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.