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The Department of LinguisticsGraduate student Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship ($1,800), administered by the UCLA International Institute. It will be used to support his fieldwork on Kalabakan Murut, as part of…
Read MoreJian-Leat Siah has been awarded an NSF scholarship to attend the workshop “Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks”, organized by our alum Canaan Briess (now at USC) and…
Read MoreGraduate 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!
Read MoreCongratulations to 4th-year PhD candidate Boram Kim for having her paper “Not every finite CP is a phase” recently published in Glossa!
Read MoreCongratulations to Katya Khlystova for advancing to the finals rounds in UCLA’s Grad Slam competition! Katya is one of 10 graduate students across all of UCLA who has been selected…
Read MoreCongratulations to 4th-year PhD candidate Huilei Wang for having her paper “Quantifier Raising out of Mandarin relative clauses” recently accepted to Natural Language Semantics! You can find a preprint on…
Read MoreGraduate student Canaan Breiss has accepted a postdoc position at the Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory in the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, with Roger Levy as PI. Canaan will…
Read MoreCongratulations to Ph.D. candidate Travis Major for having his paper “Revisiting the syntax of monsters in Uyghur” (preprint) recently accepted to Linguistic Inquiry!
Read MoreWe extend our appreciation to all Linguistic Department Graduate and Professional Students for their hard-work and contributions. We will celebrate our Graduate and Professional Students during the week-long Appreciation event…
Read MoreWe extend our congratulations to UCLA graduate student, Abeer Ali Abdullah Al-Abbas, for being chosen to celebrate International Women’s Day for UCLA’s Newsroom article! Read about her inspiring academic achievements…
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