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Jackson Kellogg awarded a GRAF

Very exciting news, PhD candidate Jackson Kellogg was awarded a Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF) to travel to Ethiopia this summer to conduct Amharic research for his dissertation! GRAF awards support foreign-based research by doctoral students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences whose field-based or archival research requires an extended period of residence […]

Kate Lindsey to present at SLE

Professor Kate Lindsey was accepted to present at Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) in August. Her presentation is titled “Exploring Reality-Refuting Particles: The Multifunctionality of Ende Ka and Areal Parallels in Komnzo and Idi”. Many congrats to Professor Lindsey!

Kevin Samejon and Lee-Ann Vidal-Covas defend their dissertations

Very exciting news this week: two of our PhD candidates defended their dissertations! – Kevin Samejon: “National identity and regionality among Philippine English speakers in Metro Manila and Metro Cebu: A variationist study of alveolar fricative production” – Lee-Ann Vidal-Covas: Covariation & Salience in Linguistic Contact: A Sociophonetic Study of Liquid Production in Boston Spanish” […]

Becca Wheeler poster talk at ICLDC

In early March, several BU Linguistics members presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) in Hawai’i. Pictured here, PhD student Becca Wheeler had a very popular poster talk titled “Inupiaq: a case study in passive standardization in revitalization.” Her project was borne out of Prof. O’Connor’s course on Language Revitalization. […]

Professor Coppock presents at SOLID Georgetown

Professor Coppock presented with Law Professor Jill Anderson (University of Connecticut) last Friday at a one-day symposium on legal interpretation and data (“SOLID”) at Georgetown. https://solid-symposium.github.io/2025/ They presented a talk entitled “‘Any’ problems: Lexical Vagueness or Structural Ambiguity?”.

Romi Hill published in Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG)

PhD student Romi Hill was recently published in the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) conference proceedings. She, along with her colleagues during her master’s degree at Konstanz University in Germany, propose a method to integrate gradient language redundancy effects into a formal generative model of grammar. You can read the paper here: https://lfg-proceedings.org/lfg/index.php/main/article/view/60