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.
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.
Lisa Sunde also helps to advise the American Sign Language club and manages the weekly ASL conversation hour in the Language Resource Center.
“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.
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.
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.
Congratulations to graduate student Charlotte Logan on winning the Elouise Cobell Dissertation Fellowship in 2024.
Cornell, 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.
"Cornell alumni are generous with their time and efforts to assist students, to answer questions from students, or connect them to people and places."
Peter John Loewen says he's excited to support faculty in their research, meet students and showcase the value of a liberal arts education.
We wish the best of luck to our Class of 2024.
Professor Emeritus Wayles Browne's book, The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics, is now available through Cambridge Publishing.
Coming from the University of Toronto, where he is the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen begins his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
Now offered as a minor, the study of ASL at Cornell came about through years of student advocacy
Emily Pecsok is an applied mathematics and linguistics major.
The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) has awarded five New Frontier Grants to cutting edge projects in science, social science and the humanities led by A&S faculty.
The ASL Program at Cornell is featured in this article in Cornell's alumni publication, Cornellians.
Hitomi Minamida, Ph.D. ’23, has accepted an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
“Any poem, any language” is the theme of the Language Resource Center’s second annual celebration of National Poetry Month, April 17
The grants provide funding for students in unpaid or low-paying summer experiences to offset the cost of taking on those positions.
Margarita Amalia Suñer, professor of linguistics emerita in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), died in Ojai, California on Feb. 29 after a long bout with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 82.
Linguistics Professor Sarah Murray and Research Associate Stephen Henhawk are featured in this article by the Cornell Daily Sun.
The Endangered Language Alliance (ELA), co-founded by alum Daniel Kaufman Ph.D. 2010, locates speakers of endangered languages spoken in New York City.
First year Linguistics graduate student Annabelle di Lustro recently participated in the KAKEHASHI Project, an exchange program for young American researchers to visit Japan, sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA).
Cornell University's undergraduate linguistics association, The UnderLings, presents its eighteenth annual undergraduate research colloquium. By facilitating communication and discussion between researchers, the conference aims to promote undergraduate research at all levels throughout the linguistics community.
Several current Linguistics grads presented at the 2024 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting.
Mei was one of the most important Chinese historical linguists of the 20th century.
Beginning October 16, students can enroll in a wide range of online courses taught by Cornell faculty.
ASL 1101 - American Sign Language I will be offered January 2-19, 2024.
This summer, 40 members of the Gayogohó:nǫˀ diaspora came from all over the U.S. for a language camp on their ancestral homeland.
Nora Owen was awarded for her service with the Dr. Barbara Kannapell Project.
Students can now minor in ASL, take advantage of an expanded set of upper-level classes, participate in a number of ASL events on campus and be part of an active student club.
Our 34 new faculty will enrich the College of Arts & Sciences with creative ideas in a vast array of topics.
Jennifer Kuo, Linguistics
Robin Karlin, Ph.D. '18, Accepts Assistant Professor Position at University of Missouri
The Cornell Department of Linguistics is hosting a conference on the linguistics of Latin, the Sabellic languages, and Venetic.
The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability’s Academic Venture Fund will support 11 new projects across nine colleges; three include Arts & Sciences investigators.
Linguistics faculty have been awarded funding for several new grants in 2023.
Three students in the Nexus Scholars Program will be participating in research projects in the Department of Linguistics in Summer 2023.
The 2023 Lisa Sansoucy Language Scholar Award was awarded to Kevin Kwong, a Ph.D. student in Linguistics who has studied Hungarian, Finnish, Swedish, and Khmer as part of the Shared Course Initiative. The award is named in memory of our friend and colleague Lisa Sansoucy, who passed away in December of 2021. It recognizes a student who excels in learning a less commonly taught language.
This summer, 101 students in the College of Arts and Sciences will take part in groundbreaking research on campus with 61 faculty as part of the Nexus Scholars Program.
Forrest Davis, Ph.D. '22, has accepted an Assistant Professor position in the Computer Science department at Colgate University, beginning Fall 2023. Congratulations, Forrest!
Cassidy Langenfeld is a linguistics major.
These awards include funding for a conference, a superdepartment grant supporting collaboration in psychology, and 17 grants that will jump-start research across campus.
Jennifer Kuo, currently finishing her Ph.D. at the University of California Los Angeles, will join the department as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2023.
The first two classes of American Sign Language (ASL 1101 and ASL 1102) will be offered in Summer 2023 through the School of Continuing Education.
Professor Emerita Sally McConnell-Ginet describes her Linguistics experiences and what she hopes for the future of Linguistics.
A new book by linguist Michael Weiss provides the first pedagogical grammar ever compiled for Tocharian B, an ancient Indo-European language.
"A theme of the Harrison College Scholar Program is that our students are independent but not isolated."
Cornell University's undergraduate linguistics association, The UnderLings, presents its seventeenth annual undergraduate research colloquium.
Interest in ASL is growing, prompting Cornell to increase opportunities for students to explore the language.