Congratulations to doctoral student Nadra Salman and her advisor Amit Almor for their newly published article in Frontiers in Psychology: "Commentary: Scalar diversity, negative strengthening, and adjectival semantics"
We are thrilled to announce that PhD student Dawson Petersen has accepted a one-year postdoc position in Empirical Approaches to Legal Interpretation
Welcome our newest faculty member Brandon Waldon, who has a joint appointment with Philosophy.
Linguistics is excited to announce three upcoming dissertation defenses...
Sarah Wilson (supported by her mentor Amit Almor) has been awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research grant.
AJ Murphy (USC PhD 2024) has accepted an tenure-track offer in the Department of English at Bradley University.
Tracey Weldon will be the instructor for an LSA Summer Institute course at University of Oregon next July entitled "Word Up! A Focus on the African American Lexicon".
Mid-semester brings good news as a number of students and faculty have new publications and grants to celebrate!
October is a great month for dissertation defenses!
The Graduate Students in Linguistics (GSLING) at the University of South Carolina are excited to announce that abstract submissions are now open for our annual Student Research Symposium. This year's symposium will take place in the fall semester.
As we begin a new academic year on campus, the Linguistics Program has much to celebrate.
As the academic year comes to a close, the Linguistics Program wants to give a shout out to those continuing and incoming graduate students who have won awards, honors, and recognition for their teaching and research this year. It is an inspiring list! Congratulations to all and Happy Summer!
Drew Crosby, PhD, 2023, Lecturer, Korea University Archie Crowley, PhD, 2023, Assistant Professor, Elon University John (Spud) McCullough, PhD, 2023, Lexicographer, Oxford University Press Lesley Smith, PhD, 2023, Researcher, Duolingo Kanan Luce, PhD, 2023, Fellow, US Presidential Management
who were awarded the Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Dissertation Fellowship
who was awarded the Excel grant for Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
who was awarded an NSF DDRI grant (2023-2025)
who was awarded a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
The Linguistics Program is excited to welcome Dr. Joy Peltier as an Assistant Professor of English and Linguistics. Dr. Peltier, who received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Michigan, conducts research on language in contact and in context. Her specific interests lie in high-contact and minority language varieties, such as Creoles, and she has examined pragmatic elements, such as pragmatic markers.
The University of South Carolina is hosting the 5th biennial conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA-5), to be held from November 4-6, 2022. The conference venue is the Conference Center in the Close Hipp Building. See the conference web site for more details: http://www.meetabout.org/ampra5/
Professor Tracey Weldon has been invited to give plenary talks at NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) in October 2021, the LSA (Linguistic Society of America) Annual Meeting in January 2022, and the 89th SECOL (Southeastern Conference on Linguistics) in the spring of 2022.
Professors Amanda Dalola and Sherina Feliciano-Santos have been selected as 2021 McCausland Faculty Fellows.
Three books by our Linguistics Faculty have been published books in 2021: Sherina Feliciano-Santos' A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity: Language, Social Practice, and Identity within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism (Rutgers University Press), Tracey Weldon's Middle-Class African American English (Cambridge University Press), and Paul Malovrh's Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, Challenges, and Possibilities (John Benjamins, co-edited with Mandy Menke).
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