Upcoming colloquia:

Spring 2009 Colloquia
"...Language(s) in the US"
January 21-22: Marianne Mithun
February 19: Denise Finneran
February 26: Jeff Reaser and David Marlow
March 18-19: Sarah Bunin Benor
April 22-23: Carmen Silva-Corvalán

For more information,
visit the Activities page of this site.

Graduate Student Day 2009 Award Winners

Minta Elsman (Outstanding Thesis Award)

Carlos Gelormini Lezama (George M. Reeves Fellowship, Bruce Pearson Award for Outstanding Research)

Stephen Mann (Michael Montgomery Award for Excellence in Teaching, Oral Presentations Competition Second Place)

Stacy Warnick (Carol Myers-Scotton Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Linguistics Program, Michael Montgomery Award for Excellence in Teaching)

The Linguistics Program at the University of South Carolina is an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary program with three concentrations: Cognitive Science and Theoretical Linguistics, Language Variation and Change, and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. The Program has connections to the following departments in the College of Arts and Sciences: Anthropology; English Language and Literature; Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Philosophy; and Psychology; and Communication Sciences and Disorders in the School of Public Health; and Instruction and Teacher Education in the College of Education. It also has strong ties to the English Programs for Internationals. The Program's mission is to promote specialized, interdisciplinary and collaborative research and to train students to pursue research and teach in a range of linguistic subdisciplines that center around the three Program concentrations. The program administers three graduate degrees: a Ph.D. in Linguistics, an M.A. in Linguistics, and a Graduate Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. At the undergraduate level, students may take a cognate or a minor in Linguistics, or pursue a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on Linguistics.