The Department of Linguistics

Latest News

1. Awards, Celebrations, Conferences, Graduate Students

   Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the James McCawley Fellowship

   Apr 18, 2025 - Graduate student, Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the James McCawley Fellowship to attend this year’s LSA Summer Institute at the University of Oregon. Congratulations Jian-Leat!

2. Alumni, Awards, Celebrations, Faculty, Fieldwork

   Alum Travis Major and Harold Torrence have been awarded an NSF grant

   Apr 11, 2025 - Alum Travis Major (now Assistant Professor at USC) and Harold Torrence have been awarded an NSF grant  for the project "The Crosslinguistic Components of Clausal Complementation". Congratulations...

3. General

   ENROLL NOW – LING SUMMER COURSES 2025!

   Apr 8, 2025 - The UCLA Linguistics Department is offering online and in-person summer courses for UCLA and non-UCLA students. Summer Session 2025 enrollment starts on February 1, 2025 for UCLA...

4. Alumni, Celebrations

   Huilei Wang to Göttingen

   Apr 8, 2025 - Huilei Wang has accepted a postdoc position (Humboldt Research Fellowship) in Göttingen, starting May 2025. She will be working with Hedde Zeijlstra on a syntax-semantics interface project....

5. Conferences

   UCLA @ PLC 49

   Apr 8, 2025 - The 49th meeting of the Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 49) took place 5–6 April 2025. The following current UCLA linguists presented: János Egressy: Size-dependent opacity meets pied-piping...