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Joy Peltier presents "Language in Context and in Contact: The Pragmatics of Multifunctional Items in Kwéyòl Donmnik"

Join us on Wednesday February 24 at 3:30PM EST for a discussion with Joy Peltier, PhD Candidate in linguistics at the University of Michigan.

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Applications are due for the Spark Award for Undergraduate Research

Applications are due by February 1 for the 2021 Spark Award For Undergraduate Research in Linguistics! Thanks to a generous endowment created by Michael H. and Nancy E. Scarbrough, the Department of Linguistics is able to offer funding to support undergraduate research projects.

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Drew Felt's essay appears in The Classic

This November, Drew Felt’s essay “Indonesian Versus English Revisited: More Similarities Unveiled” appears in The Classic, the Writing Intensive Program’s journal of undergraduate writing and research.

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Michael Wolfman's essay appears in The Classic

This November, Michael Wolfman’s essay “Parallelism in Language: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of English and Indonesian” appears again in The Classic, the Writing Intensive Program’s journal of undergraduate writing and research.

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Alpha Smith's essay appears in The Classic

This November, Alpha Smith’s essay “The Unrealized Universality of Phrase Structure: An Analysis of Similarities Between Japanese and English” appears in The Classic, the Writing Intensive Program’s journal of undergraduate writing and research.