Upcoming colloquia:

Spring 2009 Colloquia
February 20: Thomas Becker
March 19-20: John Lipski (Afro-Bolivian language; Spanish in the US)
April 10: Nina Moreno (The construct of “awareness” in second language acquisition)
April 17: William Leap (Queer Language, Homo-normativity and Gay Sexual Cinema)
and more!

Fall 2008 Colloquia by
Bonnie Urciuoli, Suzanne Swan, James Lee, Valentina Pagliai, Martha Pennington and Bonnie D. Schwartz

Graduate Student Spring Colloquium 2009

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.