2024
April 13
Graduate Students Linguistics Research Symposium
2023
April 8
Graduate Students Linguistics Research Symposium
February 3
Professional Development Workshop Series: "Data Analysis Tools"
Paige Keuster, Drew Crosby, Hannah Catron, Sarah Wilson, Shana Scucchi
2022
November 4-6
The 5th biennial conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA-5)
November 7
Lecture: The Scandal of the ‘How-To-Write’ Industry
Geoffrey Pullum
November 8
Lecture: Racism and the Relevance of African American English
Geoffrey Pullum
Lecture Series Highlighting Deaf Language: The Linguistics Program, with funding from the College of Arts and Sciences, hosted a lecture series highlighting deaf language. All lectures presented in both ASL and in spoken English. The event was open to all USC students/faculty and the greater Columbia and Deaf Communities.
- November 21: Roger Williams “Introduction to Deaf Studies”
- November 22: Sherry Williams “Deaf Culture and History”
2021
March 19
Professional Development Workshop Series: "Online Presence"
Amanda Dalola & Nina Moreno
April 9
Professional Development Workshop Series: "Navigating Institutional Hierarchies and
Networking"
Stan Dubinsky & Mila Tasseva
April 16
Colloquium: Martin Pickering
April 23
Colloquium: Ellen Bialystok
April 30
Colloquium: Lise Dobrin
May 27
Professional Development Workshop: CVs
3:00-4:30 pm
Location: Zoom
June 24
Professional Development Workshop: Job ads and cover letters
4:00-5:30 pm
Location: Zoom
July 22
Professional Development Workshop: Statements (teaching/diversity)
4:00-5:30 pm
Location: Zoom
October 1
Colloquium: “Little Words” in Context and in Contact: Pragmatic Markers in Kwéyòl Donmnik, English,
and French [pdf]
Joy Peltier, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan
2:00-3:30 pm
Location: Zoom
October 15
Professional Development Workshop: "Applying for Fellowships: When, Why, and How”
Matt Klopfenstein, National Fellowships Coordinator, University of South Carolina
3:00-4:00 pm
Location: Zoom
October 29
Colloquium: "Representing Events in Language and Cognition”
Anna Papafragou, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
2:00-3:30 pm
Location: Zoom
November 6
GSLING Student Research Symposium (SRS) Brown Bag [pdf]
9:00-4:00 pm
Location: Close-Hipp Building 008
November 12
Colloquium: Title TBD
Kanan Luce, Linguistics Program, University of South Carolina
Time/Location TBD
2020
January 2 - 5
Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana
March 19
World Languages Day
September 14
Ph.D. Defense: Brianna Cornelius, "Talkin’ Black and Sounding Gay: An Examination
of the Construction of a Multiplex Identity via Intraspeaker Variation"
September 25
Professional Development Workshop: "How to Turn Your Course Paper into a Publishable
Manuscript"
Amit Almor, Anne Bezuidenhout, and Kurt Goblirsch
October 23
Colloquium: “The Origin of Language and the Oldest Words in the World”
Anatoly Liberman, Visiting Scholar from the University of Minnesota
October 30
Professional Development Workshop: "Linguistics in the time of COVID"
Jennifer Reynolds and Mila Tasseva
November 6
Workshop, "The State of Historical Phonology"
Anatoly Liberman, Visiting Scholar from the University of Minnesota
November 7
Student Research Symposium
November 13
PhD Defense: Danielle Fahey, The Shape of the Bilingual Mental Lexicon: Testing the Cognate Continuum
November 20
Colloquium, "Beating a willing horse: the origin of our idioms"
Anatoly Liberman, University of Minnesota
2019
January 3 – 6
Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, New York, New York
February 8
Colloquium, “Linguistic Entrenchment and the Effect of Subjective Lexical Familiarity
in Korean /n/-insertions”
Stanley Dubinsky and Jiyeon Song
February 22
Colloquium,“The effects of focus on quantifier scope in Korean negation” and Keiko
Bridwell “Hwhat did you say?: An acoustic analysis of the whine-wine merger in unscripted
Southern American speech”
Dennis Park
February 28
"Talking Black in America” screening and Q&A panel
Tracey Weldon
April 12
Colloquia
Angelina Rubina, Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva
August 30
Colloquium
Pete Nelson
September 9
Additive Dialect Workshop
Price L. Lassahn-Worrell
September 27
Colloquium, "Aural You Crazy? Revisiting Leow et al. (2008) in the Aural Mode"
Sam Hackworth