Our department had a great time a few weeks ago at the 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 57) in Buffalo!
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Boston University's Department of Linguistics enables students to study human language from a variety of perspectives and to consider the relationships between linguistics and other disciplines.
Our department had a huge success at this year's Speech Prosody conference in Pennsylvania! Read more here: www.bu.edu/linguistics/...
BU linguistics alum Yuhao Dai, currently a PhD student at Georgetown, presented at SULA-TripleA on May 12-15 at the University of British Columbia. His poster was entitled "Two perfects in Lhasa Tibetan and the lack of cessation inferences of pa.ree". Here he is pictured with Lisa Matthewson!
Kpogo to Wayne State! 🎉 Lab alum Felix Kpogo (PhD 2024, currently at Brown) has accepted a new job at Wayne State U., starting as a Pre-Faculty Fellow and then moving to a tenure-track Assistant Professorship. Congrats to Felix! 👏👏 www.felixkpogo.com #langsky 🐦🐦 @bulinguistics.bsky.social
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BU Linguistics at ACAL The University at Buffalo will host the 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 57) on May 21–23, 2026! We are proud to have several department members and alumni presenting. For the full schedule, see: sites.google.com/view/acal57/...
Our department has had four PhD candidates pass their dissertation defenses! Andre Batchelder-Schwab: Topics in African Whistled Languages Liza Sulkin: Acoustic correlates of gender presentation and sexuality 1/2
Congrats to Jupitara Ray (@jupitararay.bsky.social) on successfully defending her PhD, "Phonetic plasticity in Indian English bilinguals: How L2 accommodation alters L1 production and perception"! Well-done, Jupitara! 👏👏 Read more: jupitararay.github.io @bulinguistics.bsky.social #langsky 🐦🐦
Thank you to everyone who helped make the Boston Morphology Workshop (BMW) a success! The BU Linguistics department was honored to host.
Last month, BU Professor Kate Lindsey presented at the CUNY Graduate Center with a colloquium called "Two Lies and a Truth: Uncovering the Facts about Chuvash Stress". Congrats!
Last month, Professor Coppock was invited to the Princeton - Rutgers Semantics workshop to provide comments on Hans Kamp's paper! philosophy.princeton.edu/events/princ...
Princeton - Rutgers Semantics Workshop
SESSION 19:00-11:15Josh Dever(comments from Matthew Stone) LUNCHSESSION 212:30-2:45Dag Westerståhl(comments from Zoltán Szabó) SESSION 33:00-5:15John Hawthrone(comments from Paolo Santorio) SESSION 45...
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This Friday and Saturday, May 1-2, BU Linguistics will be hosting the Boston Morphology Workshop! View the schedule and register on the website: sites.google.com/view/bostonm...
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We are proud to announce that four of our students won Boston University Center for the Humanities awards!! Undergraduate students: Noah Darby and Maclain Rockett www.bu.edu/humanities/o... Graduate students: Jackson Kellogg and Liza Sulkin www.bu.edu/humanities/o... Congratulations to all!
Chronology: Undergraduate Student Award Recipients | Center for the Humanities
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Sungjun Kim, a Junior majoring in Linguistics and Computer Science, was accepted to the Emory Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (EULC7)! linguistics.emory.edu/news/eulc.html The conference took place in April and Sungjun's talk was entitled "Hangeul as a Computational Medium." Congrats!
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Professor Kate Lindsey will be teaching Phonological Typology at ALT-2026 (16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology) in Lyon. Registration is now open! alt-2026.sciencesconf.org?lang=en&fbcl...
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Two alumni and one professor will be presenting at SULA-TripleA this year! blogs.ubc.ca/sulatriplea/... - Yuhao Dai (former MA student at BU, now a PhD student at Georgetown) - Aidan Sharma and Jiayuan Chen (former MA student; now PhD student at Rutgers) - Prof. Elizabeth Coppock
Program – SULA-TripleA 2026
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Professor Kate Lindsey was accepted as a fellow at the National Humanities Center for the 2026-2027 academic year! She will be working on her book, "A Speaker-Focused Grammar of Ende, A Language of Papua New Guinea." She is the first linguist since 1993! nationalhumanitiescenter.org/the-national...
National Humanities Center Announces 2026–27 Fellows | National Humanities Center
The National Humanities Center (NHC) is pleased to announce the appointment of 29 Fellows for the 2026–27 academic year. These leading scholars will come to the Center from universities and colleges i...
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That's a wrap on Giving Day 2026! Thank you so much to those who made donations this Giving Day. Because of your generous support, we were able to raise $2,060 for our students, surpassing our goal!!
Today is Giving Day! We have currently raised $535! Thank you so much to all our donors so far. To close the gap, we still need your help! Visit our Giving Day page at give.bu.edu/schools/Bost.... We appreciate your support!
Save the date for Giving Day: April 8, 2026! give.bu.edu/.../arts-sci.... Your support uplifts our students, such as Vasileios Michos, who was able to attend CoLang2024 with the support of the department. Watch the video below to hear his own testimony about the experience!
Tomorrow is BU Giving Day! Visit our Giving Day page now to make an early donation, or save the link for tomorrow! give.bu.edu/schools/Bost.... We appreciate your support! @bualumni.bsky.social
Save the date for Giving Day: April 8, 2026! Visit our Giving Day page to donate early give.bu.edu/schools/Bost.... We appreciate your support!
Giving Day: April 8, 2026! give.bu.edu/schools/Bost... Our students ask fundamental questions about one of humanity's most remarkable abilities: language. They are already making an impact—presenting at conferences, conducting fieldwork, and running studies in our labs. @bualumni.bsky.social
Save the date for Giving Day: April 8, 2026! Visit our Giving Day page at give.bu.edu/schools/Bost.... We appreciate your support! @bualumni.bsky.social
Save the date for Giving Day: April 8, 2026! Visit our Giving Day page at give.bu.edu/schools/Bost.... We appreciate your support! @bualumni.bsky.social
Save the date for Giving Day: April 8, 2026! Our goal is to raise $2,000 for: ✈️ Graduate student conference travel 🌍 Fieldwork on languages around the world 🎓 Undergraduate research opportunities 🧠 Participants in student language research Visit our Giving Day page at give.bu.edu/schools/Bost...
Congrats to PhD student Rebecca Dufie Bonney who presented a paper titled "African Languages and the Expansion of Heritage Phonology Research" at the Fifth International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages. She co-presented with Matthew Ajibade (Indiana University).
Liza Sulkin and Chloe Guttmann presented at LINC last week as part of the "Beyond Fracture" conference!
Liza Sulkin and Chloe Guttmann will both be presenting on a panel at the Literatures & Linguistics Interdisciplinary Conference (LINC) this Thursday at Florida State University! You can catch them at the "Dialogues at a crossroads" panel at 2:00-3:20. mllgraduatestudentconference.wordpress.com
Literatures & Linguistics Interdisciplinary Conference (LINC)
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Professor Kate Lindsey will be teaching Phonological Typology at ALT-2026 (16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology) in Lyon. Registration is now open at alt-2026.sciencesconf.org?lang=en!
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DDL has a long history of studying minority languages, writing grammatical descriptions, doing field research in South America, Africa, Northeast and Southeast Asia, Australia, the Caucasus and Europe, and working on phonological, grammatical and semantic typology. The conference will take place in the old part of the Lumière University, a beautiful venue located in a very dynamic part of the city with the possibility to sit in the garden or walk along the Rhône river. There are excellent public transport links (metro and tram) to other parts of the city, and numerous city bike stations are located nearby. Lyon is the culinary capital of France and a World Heritage Site, with numerous Roman vestiges, a Romanesque Old Town, and a new quarter boasting spectacular modern architecture. The vineyards of Burgundy and the Beaujolais as well as the Cotes du Rhone are only short train rides away, as are the Alps and the Massif Central. We look forward to welcoming you in Lyon next year!
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Professor Coppock recently presented at LangCog (Harvard University): Title: Unifying dependent-indefinite and independent-universal reduplicated numerals in Newar Newar is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in the Kathmandu Valley region of Nepal with a rich classifier system.