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Jonathan Evans’s An Introduction to Old English was published by the Modern Language Association in Spring 2021.  The book’s 802 pages represent the culmination of some 25 years’ work compiling, expanding, correcting, and revising drafts of

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.There are two categories of awards, which are described below.

UGA Linguistics alum, Dr. Doug Merchant (PhD class of 2019) was recently published in the journal Natural Language and Theory. His paper, "What's in the bucket? Aspectual (non)compositionality in phrasal idioms" can be found in Volume 39, issue 4 released in November 2021.

The NWAV 29 Conference (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) was held virtually hosted by the University of Texas at Austin October 19-24, and the University of Georgia's Linguistics Department was well represented!