Author: pjtorres

  While many of us are aware that Dennis Preston (Oklahoma State) has contributed greatly to the field of sociolinguistics and dialectology, but not all of us know that the …

Anne Bezuidenhout (University of South Carolina) is teaching the Introduction to Pragmatics course at the #lingstitute2019. The class starts with a discussion of several general frameworks (neo-Gricean “Manichean” and Relevance …

With 2019 being the international year of Indigenous Languages, the Institute at Davis is offering a course on The Structure of Tashlhiyt Berber taught by Mohamed Lahrouchi (CNRS). Read our …

In line with the Institute’s theme, which is “Linguistics in the Digital Era,” Rory Turnbull (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa) will offer a fresh take in the study of languages …

By employing Information theory to the study of human language, Richard Futrell (UC Irvine) shows that the framework can be broadened from its usual applications such as analyzing the communication …

Kristen Syrett’s (Rutgers) LSA journey will come full circle when she teaches her own version of “Acquisition of Semantics”, a course she took as a graduate student during her very …

“I love hiking, and all that goes with it. Picking mushrooms, jumping into lakes, camping.” Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of Oregon) is teaching the Computational Learning Theory course at the Institute …

Elaine Francis (Purdue) will co-teach the course called “Acceptability Judgments in Syntax: Theoretical Interpretation and Experimentation Outside the Lab” with Savithry Namboodiripad (University of Michigan). Did you know that in …

Ryan Lepic (University of Chicago) and Corrine Occhino (RIT) will teach the Gesture and Sign Language Analysis course at the Institute at Davis. Their course is set to highlight the …

“Truth, not Tribalism.” Jeffrey Heinz (Stony Brook University) talks about the early days of his career that will inspire all the budding linguists out there. Find out what Professor Heinz …