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Salman and Wilson publish with Almor

Congratulations to doctoral student Nadra Salman and her advisor Amit Almor for their newly published article in Frontiers in Psychology: "Commentary: Scalar diversity, negative strengthening, and adjectival semantics"

Petersen accepts Georgetown postdoc

We are thrilled to announce that PhD student Dawson Petersen has accepted a one-year postdoc position in Empirical Approaches to Legal Interpretation

Welcome Brandon Waldon!

Welcome our newest faculty member Brandon Waldon, who has a joint appointment with Philosophy.

Spring Dissertation Defenses

Linguistics is excited to announce three upcoming dissertation defenses...

Sarah Wilson wins NSF Dissertation Grant

Sarah Wilson (supported by her mentor Amit Almor) has been awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research grant.

AJ Murphy hired at Bradley University

AJ Murphy (USC PhD 2024) has accepted an tenure-track offer in the Department of English at Bradley University.

Weldon to offer LSA Summer Course

Tracey Weldon will be the instructor for an LSA Summer Institute course at University of Oregon next July entitled "Word Up! A Focus on the African American Lexicon".

New Publications and Grants!

Mid-semester brings good news as a number of students and faculty have new publications and grants to celebrate!

Upcoming Ph.D. Defense Dates

October is a great month for dissertation defenses!

Student Research Symposium: Call for Papers

The Graduate Students in Linguistics (GSLING) at the University of South Carolina are excited to announce that abstract submissions are now open for our annual Student Research Symposium. This year's symposium will take place in the fall semester.

Welcome and welcome back!

As we begin a new academic year on campus, the Linguistics Program has much to celebrate.

End-of-year Congratulations!

As the academic year comes to a close, the Linguistics Program wants to give a shout out to those continuing and incoming graduate students who have won awards, honors, and recognition for their teaching and research this year. It is an inspiring list! Congratulations to all and Happy Summer!

The Linguistics Program welcomes two new faculty members!

Where are our most recent alumni

Drew Crosby, PhD, 2023, Lecturer, Korea University Archie Crowley, PhD, 2023, Assistant Professor, Elon University John (Spud) McCullough, PhD, 2023, Lexicographer, Oxford University Press Lesley Smith, PhD, 2023, Researcher, Duolingo Kanan Luce, PhD, 2023, Fellow, US Presidential Management

Congratulations to our new PhD Graduates!

Congratulations to our new MA Graduates!

Congratulations to PhD students Paige Pinkston and Anyssa (AJ) Murphy

who were awarded the Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Dissertation Fellowship

Congratulations to Dr Joy Peltier

who was awarded the Excel grant for Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Congratulations to PhD student Cheng Xiao

who was awarded an NSF DDRI grant (2023-2025)

Congratulations to PhD student Samantha Martin

who was awarded a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

A Warm Welcome to Assistant Professor Joy Peltier

The Linguistics Program is excited to welcome Dr. Joy Peltier as an Assistant Professor of English and Linguistics. Dr. Peltier, who received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Michigan, conducts research on language in contact and in context. Her specific interests lie in high-contact and minority language varieties, such as Creoles, and she has examined pragmatic elements, such as pragmatic markers.

Hosting the 5th biennial conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA-5)

The University of South Carolina is hosting the 5th biennial conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA-5), to be held from November 4-6, 2022. The conference venue is the Conference Center in the Close Hipp Building. See the conference web site for more details: http://www.meetabout.org/ampra5/

Plenary Addresses at LSA, NWAV, and SECOL

Professor Tracey Weldon has been invited to give plenary talks at NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) in October 2021, the LSA (Linguistic Society of America) Annual Meeting in January 2022, and the 89th SECOL (Southeastern Conference on Linguistics) in the spring of 2022.

Two McCausland Faculty Fellows

Professors Amanda Dalola and Sherina Feliciano-Santos have been selected as 2021 McCausland Faculty Fellows.