Tags: Linguistics


Dr. Luis González of Wake Forest U. visits UGA for talk and corpus workshop

People from all departments are welcome at this event. Please, feel free to share this info and the flyer with your students.  1. TALK on Wednesday, November 9, 4:00-5:00 pm, Gilbert Hall 113 "Rules that work: a verber/verbed fragment of a grammar of Spanish" This talk, meant for language students and instructors as well as linguists, will show that rules of language are easier to state, understand, retain, and apply if…

Congratulations to Dr. María Morado-Vázquez!
Congratulations to Dr. María Morado-Vázquez!

Congratulations to University of Georgia's newest PhD in Romance Linguistics, Dr. María Morado-Vázquez, who successfully defended her dissertation, "La adquisición del orden sujeto-verbo en la intransitividad y la interfaz sintaxis-discurso: Un estudio sobre la entrada lingüística dirigida al estudiante" on July 15, 2022. Enhorabuena and Parabéns, Dr. Morado-Vázquez! Timothy Gupton (major professor) Chad Howe Avizia Long Margaret Quesada
Linguistics, Romance Languages


Parabéns y Enhorabuena a Dr. María Morado-Vázquez

Enhorabuena and Parabéns to University of Georgia's newest PhD in Romance Linguistics, Dr. María Morado-Vázquez, on the successful defense of her dissertation, "La adquisición del orden sujeto-verbo en la intransitividad y la interfaz sintaxis-discurso: Un estudio sobre la entrada lingüística dirigida al estudiante"


GSO Workshop : Developing your Professional Presence Online

In the world we currently live in, our presence online is almost as important as our presence on campus. Employers today are likely to "meet you" online before they get to see you in person. That is why the GSO has decided to help our graduate students understand and develop their professional presence online with the help of the DigiLab. Join us on Instagram @uga.roml


Diogo Cosme, "L3 Acquisition of the Portuguese Present Perfect by English-Spanish Bilinguals"

All are invited to attend Diogo Cosme's dissertation defense on Friday, November 19th at 10am via Zoom.  "L3 Acquisition of the Portuguese Present Perfect by English-Spanish Bilinguals" Major Professor: Dr. Tim Gupton (contact Dr. Gupton for link) Commitee Members: Dr. Margaret Quesada, Dr. Chad Howe, Dr. Michael Iverson


Hispanic Linguistics Symposium Practice Event

A number of papers by students in the Departments of Romance Languages and Linguistics have been accepted for presentation at the 21st Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS), which will take place on the campus of Texas Tech University October 26-28. Please join us for a special practice event in anticipation of HLS 21 on Wednesday, October 18, 2017. 5:00pm - Poster session (basement of Gilbert Hall) 6:00-7:30pm - Oral presentations (Gilbert…


Graduate Student Colloquium: Jaume Antuñano and Lisa La Cross

Jaume Antuñano:  “Never Forget, Never Forgive: Sites of Memory in Buenos Aires”   Lisa La Cross: “Variation in Future Temporal Reference in Southern France” 


Graduate Student Colloquium: Dallin Larsen and Julia Hernández

Dallin V. Larsen “Mire usted Sr. González” vs. "Primero Daniel, vos" vs.  “Mr. President”: A comparative approach to the use of personal deixis in Spanish, Argentine, and American presidential debates" Julia C. Hernández “Comparative Historical Linguistics in 16th-century Spain:  Philology and Prestige in Pedro Simón Abril’s Gramática griega escrita en lengua castellana”   


Graduate Student Colloquium: Sarah Lowman and Bethany Bateman

Sarah Lowman, “Román Güemes' Hoy le canto a mi sustento: The Indigenous Kitchen as a Site of Resistance in the Era of Genetically Modified Corn” Bethany Bateman, “Incorporating Oral Narratives as Relevant Data for Linguistic Study”


Romance Linguistics Colloquium by Dr. Margaret (Peggy) Renwick

“Phonological closeness between phonetically distinct vowel phonemes” Standard Italian has seven vowels: /i e ɛ a o ɔ u/. But how strong is the distinction between /e/ vs. /ɛ/ and /o/ vs. /ɔ/? Do people really speak like the dictionary prescribes? Our study investigates the validity of the conventional descriptions of Italian and probes the correspondence between speakers’ productions and their intuitions, with the ultimate aim of understanding…
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