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The International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA) has selected Grammar in Everyday Talk: Building Responsive Actions (co-authored by SMµ÷½ÌËù Linguistics Prof. Barbara Fox , with Sandra A. Thompson and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen) as the recipient of the 2018 Best Book Award ! This prestigious award is given out once every four...

After a hiatus of more than 6 years, Colorado Research in Linguistics (CRIL) has been relaunched as a peer-reviewed electronic journal hosted by SMµ÷½ÌËù Scholar, a service of University Libraries. A student-run working papers periodical, CRIL has been published at the SMµ÷½ÌËù since 1971. Its purpose is...

The Department of Linguistics at the SMµ÷½ÌËù invites applications for the position of tenure-track Assistant Professor in Linguistics, appointment beginning August 2019. We seek candidates specializing in morphology and typology. Potential areas of focus include language change, language contact, language reconstruction, language documentation, linguistic prehistory, and language...

SMµ÷½ÌËù-Boulder Linguistics students from Prof. Kira Hall ’s 2017 graduate seminar on 'Language, Gender, and Sexuality' attend the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) Conference in Botswana. Pictured to the left are: Djankow Mathew , Brandon Kahlil Thomas , Chu Paing , Andrew Ting , Olivia Hirschey , and Mabia Camargo .

The International English Center at SMµ÷½ÌËù Boulder, a division of SMµ÷½ÌËù Continuing Education operated under the supervision of the SMµ÷½ÌËù Linguistics department, has recently released a short documentary about the SMµ÷½ÌËù Employee English Language Program . During the 2017-18 academic year, a remarkable 57 employees completed the program. SMµ÷½ÌËù is...

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce the release of blog entries authored by the winners of the new Linguistics Undergraduate Research Award ! Our 13 award winners for 2018 are: Shawg Ahmed, Sarah Beemer, Michael Catchen, Lauren Hoos, Christopher Koski, Jonathan Lilley, Jack McCurdy, Harrison Puscher, Amy Sanders,...

Prof. Bhuvana Narasimhan was recently awarded a grant from the Spencer Foundation to work on a research project titled "'More is Up': Investigating the Vertical Number Line in Preschoolers". Together with graduate student Norielle Adricula and a team of undergraduate students, the project will investigate the development of space-number mappings...

Prof. Kira Hall , Dr. Maria Thomas-Ruzic , and Prof. Chase Raymond were recently named 2018-2019 Faculty Fellows for Community-Based Learning at SMµ÷½ÌËù-Boulder. A substantial grant from SMµ÷½ÌËù Engage will support an initiative to expand the Literacy Practicum , a service-learning course that pairs SMµ÷½ÌËù undergraduates with literacy and language...

The Department is pleased to announce that Prof. Mans Hulden has been selected as a recipient of SMµ÷½ÌËù-Boulder's Marinus Smith Award. The Marinus Smith Award honors excellence in teaching and those who have made a particularly positive impact on the lives of SMµ÷½ÌËù undergraduate students. Nominations for the award are...

Faculty, departmental visitors, and former students gathered on Friday, April 20th to celebrate Prof. Zygmunt Frajzyngier on his 80th birthday. Prof. Frajzyngier (seated center-right in the group picture to the left) has been a member of SMµ÷½ÌËù-Boulder's Department of Linguistics for an astounding 48 years. We thank him for his...