Barbara Partee to be awarded British Academy medal
September 19, 2018
Barbara Partee will be awarded the Neil and Saras Smith Medal on September 24th in a ceremony in London. She will be the fifth recipient of this prestigious recognition of “lifetime achievement in...
CSAAL hosts Summer Dialect Research Project
September 07, 2018
Four undergraduate students participated in the Summer Dialect Research Project (SDRP) at UMass in June hosted by the Center for the Study of African American Language (CSAAL). The Center, directed...
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Freeman Lecture 2019 featuring Fernanda Ferreira (UC Davis)
ILC, (Room # TBA)
3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
What is Linguistics?
Linguistics is the systematic study of human language.
Linguists are interested in language for its own sake, as a complex product of the human mind. They are also interested in how language develops in children, how it changes over time, and how it is used in human society.
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