Department of Linguistics

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American Sign Language News

On top of their duties teaching American Sign Language, the preferred language of Deaf people in the United States and Canada, the ASL faculty also... Read more »
Congratulations to Leanne Rolston, PhD

The Department of Linguistics highlights Leanne Rolston, PhD. The pandemic and shift to remote teaching and research were no match for Leanne Rolston... Read more »
Historic family takes part in Pacific Northwest English Study

Since PNWE’s beginnings in 2007, the general approach has been to include folks in families that have had a longstanding presence in the Northwest. A... Read more »
Congratulations to Olga Zamaraeva, PhD

Olga Zamaraeva successfully defended her dissertation, "A dissertation on constituent questions in the Grammar Matrix, an HPSG-based grammar... Read more »

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Our department is located within the College of Arts and Sciences, and offers degrees in General and Computational Linguistics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The department's primary interests lie strongly in grammatical theory (syntax, phonology, and semantics), and in phonetics, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, and second language acquisition theory.