Undergraduate Grace LeFevre was awarded second place in the Language Development and Understanding category at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum for her presentation on quantifying the inflection class structure of Spanish verbs.
Undergraduate Shelby Gogal received an Excellent Award in the Intermediate Level competition at the Second Midwest Korean Speech Contest.
Ashwini Deo was promoted to Professor, effective May 19, 2021.
Professors Brian Joseph, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, and Micha Elsner, together with colleagues Christopher Brown and Anthony Kaldellis from Classics, were awarded an Arts & Humanities Collaborative Large Grant for The Herodotos Project: Towards an Ethnohistory of the Ancient World.
Graduate student Ash Lewis is a member of a team of OSU graduate students selected to participate in the first Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge (https://www.amazon.science/academic-engagements/ten-university-teams-selected-to-participate-in-alexa-prize-taskbot-challenge). The OSU team is one of just 10 (6 in the US) selected from 125 applicants.
Professor Beth Hume was elected Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. She will be inducted in a ceremony at the LSA annual meeting in January.
Professor Brian Joseph has been elected Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences of Albania.
Professor Brian Joseph was elected to the Academia Europaea.
Alum Shelome Gooden (PhD '03) has been named as one of eight APLU COR Research Leaders Fellows for next semester.
Alum Elizabeth Allyn Smith (PhD '10) has been promoted to Full Professor (professeure titulaire) in the Linguistics Department at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She works primarily on pragmatics, and was co-supervised by Carl Pollard and Craige Roberts.
Alum Mary Paster has recently started a temporary (1-2 year) rotation as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation serving the Linguistics program and the DLI-DEL (Dynamic Language Infrastructure - Documenting Endangered Languages) program.