Year: 2025

You’ve probably seen the news about making English ‘the official language’ of the US. Here’s a statement from the Linguistic Society of America giving some of the reasons this attack on linguistic diversity is problematic. It’s an issue you’re likely to talk to non-linguists about and the statement gives you arguments and evidence to draw …

The 19th Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL 19), the Linguistics Student Organization’s (LSO) annual student research conference, is coming soon. The conference will take place in-person in 6191 Helen C. White Hall in the afternoon on Friday, March 14th and all day on Saturday, March 15th. This year the conference also includes a day of …

We are thrilled to announce that Language Sciences Director Rajiv Rao, who is a faculty member in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and Language Sciences, has been awarded a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship. According to the Provost’s office, this title recognizes “UW–Madison faculty members whose distinguished scholarship has advanced the confines of knowledge, and …