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PhD student collaborates on Nanticoke textbook

PhD student Keith Cunningham collaborated with Nanticoke tribal member and Rutgers Anthropology PhD student Karelle Hall to create a textbook to teach the Nanticoke language for…

November 15, 2022

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Prof. Deborah Tannen elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Faculty member Deborah Tannen was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the area of Humanities and Arts. Read her bio on the Academy’s.…

October 6, 2021

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Prof. Natalie Schilling elected as a Linguistic Society of America Fellow

Faculty member Natalie Schilling is one of 7 linguists elected to the 2022 class of Linguistic Society of America Fellows. The 2022 LSA Fellows were chosen through a nomination…

October 6, 2021

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Call for papers: GURT 2022 Dialect Contact

Call for papers open for GURT 2022, March 10-13, online. Abstracts due Dec. 1 via Oxford Abstracts. Reach out with questions by email and Twitter! Dialect contact occurs whenever…

October 6, 2021

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GURT 2021 virtual conference!

The Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics conference (GURT) will take place virtually this Thursday, March 4th and Friday, March 5th, 2021. The theme: …

March 2, 2021

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Ph.D. candidate Minnie Quartey featured in WUSA9 article

Ph.D. student Minnie Quartey was recently quoted in a WUSA9 article on ‘The power of spoken word during social movements’. The article also features Minnie’s reading of a…

August 24, 2020

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Assistant Professor Nicholas Subtirelu addresses the question ‘Can Quantitative Research Contribute to Struggles for Social Justice?

Linguistics Professor Nic Subtirelu recently presented a lecture titled ‘Can quantitative research contribute to struggles for social justice?’ for the Georgetown Initiative…

July 30, 2020

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Initiative for Multilingual Studies

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April 17, 2020

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Coptic Dictionary Online wins 2019 DH award for Best Tool

The Coptic Scriptorium project, directed by Amir Zeldes at the Department of Linguistics (Georgetown) and Caroline T. Schroeder at the Department of Classics and Letters …

March 11, 2020

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Prof. Hamilton presents on ‘Interactional Sociolinguistics as a Tool for Social Justice’

Linguistics Professor Heidi Hamilton’s presentation on ‘Interactional sociolinguistics as a tool for social justice’ is now available on the Georgetown IMS YouTube…

October 13, 2019