Faculty Publications and Research

PublicationsJohn Bowers. 2018. Deriving Syntactic Relations. Cambridge University Press.Sam Tilsen. 2019. Syntax with Oscillators and Energy Levels. Language Science Press.Michael Weiss. 2020. Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin. Beech Stave Press.Michael Weiss, forthcoming. Kuśiññe Kantwo “The Language of Kucha”John...

Einaudi Center awards eight faculty grants

Seed and small grants from the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies are launching some big global initiatives – from uncovering one of Pompeii’s lost gardens to bringing together international researchers studying Indonesia’s 700 languages.

Support Arts & Sciences students on Giving Day March 12

The College of Arts & Sciences is gearing up for Giving Day on Thursday, March 12 and we hope you'll join in the fun!

Your gifts to our annual fund, undergraduate scholarship fund or any of our departments and programs help our faculty and students reach their full potential.

Linguistics grad student receives award for indigenous language presentation

Doctoral student Carol-Rose Little and collaborator Morelia Vázquez Martínez (Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Macuspana) received a special distinction award in the best student presentation category from the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas during the society's winter meeting in January in New Orleans, La.

Carol-Rose Little and Morelia Vázquez Martínez selected to receive award

Carol-Rose Little and collaborator Morelia Vázquez Martínez (Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Macuspana) received a special distinction award in the Best Student Presentation category from the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA). They presented “Dimensions of definiteness in Ch’ol: A dialectal comparison” at the...

Summer and Fall 2019 Conference Wrap Up

Summer and Fall 2019 brought a new wave of conferences, with our graduate students representing Cornell Linguistics.International Conference on Historical Linguistics 24Francesco Burroni and Sireemas Maspong – Contrast Emergence, Preservation, and Loss: A case study of initial geminatesInternational Congress of Phonetic SciencesAbby Cohn...

Grants seed social science research, conferences

Studies exploring the effects of disadvantaged neighborhoods, a reimagined school recess and customized avatars were among a slate of faculty projects receiving grants this fall from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS).

Sign of the times: American Sign Language thrives on campus

The new ASL classes meet the College of Arts & Sciences’ three-semester world language requirement.

World Languages Day Podcast

Linguistics graduate student Katie Blake and Professor Abby Cohn discuss the pilot event for Cornell World Languages Day on the Language Resource Center's weekly podcast. Listen at https://speakingoflanguage.podbean.com/e/s4e10-cornell-world-languages-day/.  

LRC Podcast Highlights Linguistics Students

Linguistics students have been recently featured in the Language Resource Center's weekly podcasts.Grad students Ryan Hearn and Joseph Rhyne discuss their work creating the Torfan language for the Captain Marvel film in Do You Speak Torfan?Undergrad Nisa Burns '21 talks about her experiences studying abroad and learning languages in Heritage...