News
Linguistics Associate Professor Dan Parker's new book, Linguistic Illusions, has been awarded the LSA's 2027 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award! The award will be presented at the LSA Annual Meeting in…
Linguistics Associate Professor Dan Parker has received a multi-year NSF award! The three-year grant, Integrating retrieval and prediction in sentence processing using attention-based LLMs will…
Linguistics graduate student Tomiris Kaumenova has received a CCBS Summer Graduate Scholarship and linguistics graduate students Sara Court and Yi-Chien Lin have received CCBS Summer Graduate…
Linguistics faculty member Kathryn Campbell-Kibler has been promoted to the rank of Professor!
Congratulations Kathryn!
Ash Lewis has accepted a three-year postdoctoral scholar position in the Foundations of Computational Linguistics Lab headed by Prof. David Schlangen at the University of Potsdam starting in…
Linguistics major Quinn Seitz has been awarded an Undergraduate Research Scholarship for the thesis project “Polyfunctionality of English derivational affixes”.
Congratulations, Quinn!
While the chair normally has the honor of sharing good news with the department and our broader community of linguists, in this case I’m sharing the news (on behalf of the awards committee) as the…
Linguistics Assistant Professor of Teaching Laura Siragusa and collaborators Octavian Robinson and Margaret Price have been awarded a small grant from OSU's Feminist Research, Education and…
Linguistics major Charlie Rowe has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Small Grant, which will be used to fund travel to the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting in New Orleans in January,…
Linguistics Associate Professor Dan Parker has been awarded an ASC Research Instrumentation and Infrastructure Grant Program grant for his proposal "Advancing language science research and training…
Linguistics graduate student Connor Rouillier has been awarded a Graduate Student Research Grant by the Center for Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at OSU. The award will be put help fund data…
Linguistics major Emily Leach has been awarded an Undergraduate Research Scholarship for a thesis project “Exploring the Whole-Object Bias in Machine Learning”. Congratulations, Emily!
Linguistics Professor Shari Speer has been granted emerita status by the OSU Board of Trustees! Congratulations, Shari!
Linguistics major Charlie Rowe has been awarded an Undergraduate Research Scholarship for their thesis project “Missing or mixed up? What judgements to Spanish verbs reveal about defectiveness”.…
Linguistics Assistant Professor Jessica Kantarovich, together with Eszter Ronai at Northwestern, have been awarded a three-year NSF grant entitled "Collaborative Research: LangDiv: The…
Linguistics Distinguished University Professor Emeritus Brian Joseph is eponymous in an endowed chair, funded by an anonymous donor, at the College Year in Athens: the Brian D. Joseph Chair in…
Linguistics PhD alumna Xhina Ndoci has accepted a multi-year lecturer position in Modern Greek in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at University of California, Berkeley!
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Linguistics PhD alumnus Jordan Needle has accepted a Visiting Assistant Professor position in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Iowa! Congratulations Jordan!
Linguistics graduate student Noah Diewald has successfully defended his dissertation and has accepted a postdoctoral position at Concordia University.
Congratulations, Noah!
Linguistics PhD alumnus Byung-Doh Oh (PhD '24) has accepted a tenure-track position at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (one of the global top 30 linguistics departments according…
Linguistics faculty member Björn Köhnlein has been promoted to the rank of Professor!
Congratulations, Björn!
Linguistics Professor Michael White has been awarded a Battelle Engineering, Technology and Human Affairs Endowment (BETHA) grant for his proposal, Towards an AI Avatar for Public
Linguistics Professor Emeritus Don Winford has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
Congratulations Don!
Ash won the poster competition at the BLN symposium! Congratulations Ash!
Linguistics graduate students Ash Lewis, Tomiris Kaumenova, and Phuong Dang have been awarded CCBS Summer Graduate Awards for Summer 2025! Congratulations, Ash, Tomiris, and Phuong!
Linguistics PhD alumnus Yuhong Zhu has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the Institute for Foreign Language Research and Education at Hiroshima University. Congratulations…
Linguistics Professor Michael White has been become an Editor in Chief of ACL Rolling Review, the principal peer review platform for the Association for Computational Linguistics!
Linguistics alumna Sun-Ah Jun (1993, advisor: Mary Beckman) was recognized as a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America for distinguished contributions to the discipline and to the LSA.
Linguistics Professor Andrea Sims has been recognized as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America for her distinguished contributions to the discipline and to the LSA.
Congratulations…
Linguistics alum Junyu Ruan has been hired as a Postdoctoral researcher at Boya College (Liberal Arts College) of Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China!
Congratulations Junyu!
Linguistics faculty member Andrea Sims has been promoted to the rank of Professor!
Congratulations Andrea!
Linguistics Professor Brian Joseph has been given emeritus status by the OSU Board of Trustees!
Congratulations, Brian!
Linguistics graduate student Chaeli Rule has been awarded a FLAS fellowship for intermediate Russian for the 2024-2025 Academic Year!
Congratulations Chaeli!
Linguistics Senior Lecturer Laura Siragusa has been awarded a Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures Associated Faculty and Professors of Teaching Funding grant. The CLLC awards grants to…
Graduate student Byung-Doh Oh has been awarded a Faculty Fellow post-doctoral position at NYU Center for Data Science! Building on the success of the Moore-Sloan Fellows program, CDS has created a…
Marie Bissell has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Linguistics at UT Arlington, starting in August!
Congratulations, Marie!