Month: August 2020

Language Sciences Professors Macaulay and Salmons are seeking a 50% Project Assistant for the 2020-2021 academic year (12 months) to serve as editorial assistant for the book series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory and the annual volume Papers of the Algonquian Conference. Qualifications: Excellent organizational skills, writing and proofreading skills in English, word processing, and …

Language Sciences is happy to announce the addition of new tenure-track faculty member Ryan Henke to our program! Professor Henke joins us from the University of Hawaiʻi, where he recently defended his thesis The first language acquisition of nominal inflection in Northern East Cree: Possessives and nouns. His research has focused on the first language …

Professor Anja Wanner, Language Sciences faculty member and Chair of the Department of English, was featured in a recent story in On Wisconsin, UW–Madison’s alumni magazine. In her interview “We Are Not the Grammar Police,” she explains the descriptive and open-minded approach that linguists take when conducting research on human language. Read the full article …

A couple of our faculty have forthcoming edited volumes in interesting areas of linguistic research: Rajiv Rao (2020) – Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain. Grant Armstrong (2021) (with co-editor J.E. MacDonald) – Unraveling the Complexity of SE. This book makes a novel contribution to our understanding of …

Congratulations are in order to several Linguistics majors who were awarded scholarships, prizes, and honor society memberships in 2020. Special merit scholarships: The following students were inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society: Phi Beta Kappa is one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor societies. Approximately 10% of college graduates are invited …