Archive: linguistics

• Georgetown GRAD Application for 2020 Admissions Cycle Live

  The Georgetown GRAD application for the 2020 admissions cycle is open for new and returning users.  After you create an account, you are able to access the application form which may be completed in

  Category: News Tags: admissions, graduate, graduate student, linguistics, literature and culture, news

• Language Learning Dissertation Grant Awarded to Timothy McCormick

  The Language Learning Board of Directors has agreed to fund a Language Learning Dissertation Grant submitted by Mr. Timothy McCormick to support his dissertation currently in progress, titled Early a

  Category: Grants and Awards Tags: applied linguistics, graduate, graduate student, grant, linguistics, phd

• Tris Faulkner Awarded Best Student Poster Award at 16th International Pragmatics Conference

  Congratulations to Tris Faulkner who won Best Student Poster Award at the 16th International Pragmatics Conference in Hong Kong! Tris is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Spanish Linguistics pro

  Category: Grants and Awards Tags: award, graduate, grant, linguistics, phd, pragmatics, semantics

• Lucia Donatelli Successfully Defends Dissertation, “A Morphosemantics of Spanish Gender: Evidence from Small Nominals”

  Congratulations to Lucia Donatelli, who successfully defended her dissertation, "A Morphosemantics of Spanish Gender: Evidence from Small Nominals"! Lucia, a Ph.D. candidate in Spanish linguistic

  Category: News Tags: dissertation, graduate, linguistics, syntax

• Internal Validity Issues in Implicit Learning Research

  With Dr. Rebecca Sachs, Virginia International University, and Dr. Phillip Hamrick, Kent State University. Having confidence in research depends upon a study’s internal validity (i.e., whether th

  Category: Events Tags: event, events, implicit learning, linguistics, second language acquisition, sla, spanish

• Dialect Contact in Spanish in the US

  Web Conference with Kim Potowski, a Professor of Hispanic linguistics in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. If you would like more information on

  Category: Events Tags: event, events, linguistics, spanish, united states, us, usa

• Lecture by Dr. Whitney Chappell of UTSA

  Please join the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Dr. Whitney Chappell for "On the relationship between salient linguistic information and social perception: The Case of Second-Generation Span

  Category: Events Tags: event, events, linguistics, sociolinguistics, spanish, united states, us, usa

• Learning three languages through pedagogical translanguaging

  A conversation with Dr. Jasone Cenoz, Professor of Education, University of the Basque Country, and Dr. Durk Gorter, Professor, Ikerbasque Research Foundation, University of the Basque Country.

  Category: Events Tags: bilingualism, event, events, linguistics, pedagogy, spanish, translanguaging

• 1st Institut Ramon Llul Workshop on Bilingualism

  Speaker(s): Kathryn Woolard & Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells Event Type: Discussion Forum / Lecture Date and Time: Friday, November 2, 2018 at 2:00pm to 5:00pm Location: Regents Hall, Baker Schol

  Category: Events Tags: bilingualism, catalan, event, events, institut ramon llul, linguistics

• Syntactic Variation in Spanish: The Case of Interrogatives Caribbean Spanish

  Speaker(s): Francisco Ordóñez Event Type: Lecture Date and Time: Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 3:00pm Location: Edward B. Bunn, S.J. Intercultural Center, 101, 37th and O St., N.W., Washingt

  Category: Events Tags: caribbean spanish, event, events, linguistics