Native Origins of the name ‘Wisconsin’
Professor Valentine contributed to a Wisconsin Public Radio story on the Algonquian origins of the name of our state. The story is available to read or to listen to at the wpr website.
College of Letters & Science
Professor Valentine contributed to a Wisconsin Public Radio story on the Algonquian origins of the name of our state. The story is available to read or to listen to at the wpr website.
Members of the class of 2019 gathered at the top of Van Hise Hall to celebrate the completion of their degrees. In addition to the large ceremony at Camp Randall, Language Sciences hosts a small gathering each year for our graduates and their family and friends, where students receive their diploma cover from the Language …
Our upper-level linguistics majors enjoyed a special celebration to mark the end of their Field Methods capstone course, as well as their time studying linguistics here at UW–Madison. The focus language this year was Sundanese, a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on the island of Java in Indonesia. The Sundanese language consultant, Priza Marendraputra, kindly …