GC CUNY - Linguistics Program
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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program
@gccunylinguistics.bsky.social
We are the Linguistics Program at the Graduate Center, City University of New-York. Follow us for updates on upcoming events, publications and more.

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💻 GC Linguistics students, join us for the next Professional Development session with Prof. Caplan:
“Using online platforms for data collection”
🗓️ Next week - Thursday Nov 6, 4:15–6:15pm. Room 7102
👩‍🏫 Led by Prof. Caplan
🔹Note: this event is open only to Linguistics department students.
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
SYNC 2025 (the student conference uniting CUNY, NYU, Stony Brook & Yale) is calling for abstracts!! 🌆
Share your research, connect with peers, and join the NYC linguistics community.

Find out more at the link in our bio!
October 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Launching tomorrow! 🎉🗽
The CUNY Corpus of New York City English (CCNYCE) debuts 12–2 PM, Room 9206.
NSF-funded resource for studying language variation & change across NYC.
Join us to find out more and celebrate!
October 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Tomorrow we are hosting two events!
🎓 9:30am-4:15pm Open House
🎤 4:15pm Colloquium w/ Athulya Aravind (Yale)
Come for the tour, stay for the talk. 🗽
October 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Thinking about grad study in Linguistics? 👀
Join our Open House on Thursday, Oct 16!
🍴 Lunch + Q&A with students
🧭 Tour our labs and spaces
📍 CUNY Graduate Center 🕛 9.30am-6:15pm

Come meet the community behind GC Linguistics!
October 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Next week’s Colloquium: Athulya Aravind (Yale University) on Under-agreement in child grammars 🗓 Oct 16, 4:15–6:15 PM (Room 4116 | Zoom)
Don’t miss it - register via QR code or link in bio!
October 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📣 Calling all GC Linguistics students!
📅 Oct 9: Prof. Cece Cutler leads a workshop on Article-based vs. traditional dissertations. Learn the pros & cons of each format as you plan your dissertation path.
👉 Current students only.
October 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
✨ Last Thursday's Linguistics Colloquium ✨
Thank you to Claire Bowern (Yale University) for presenting "When sound change does (and doesn't) happen". Stay tuned for the next event in our Fall series!
Next up: Athulya Aravind (Yale University), Oct 16. Don’t miss it!
September 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Thinking about grad study in linguistics? 👀
Join our Open House @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on Oct 16!
What to expect?
📖 Semantics I (Al Khatib)
🍴 Lunch + Q&A w/ @cece-cutler.bsky.social & students
📚 Field Methods II (Kaufman)
🎤 Colloquium
RSVP 👉 tinyurl.com/2md7pwp4
September 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🔬 Inside the Lab: Second Language Acquisition Lab (SLAL)
We’re kicking off a new series on the research labs that drive our program. First up: SLAL, where students & faculty investigate bilingualism, heritage languages, and second language learning. ✨ Stay tuned for more labs!
September 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
✨ Big news! The CUNY Corpus of New York City English is launching Oct. 17 at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Come hear about this NSF-funded resource for studying language variation & change.
📅 Oct. 17, 12–2 pm
📍 GC, Room 9206
🔗 Register by Oct. 15: tinyurl.com/4ycdyf4f
September 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
✨ Friday Reads ✨
Our pick this week is a new release: Language and Political Subjectivity: Stancemaking, Power and Politics in Chile and Venezuela (Routledge, 2025).

👩‍🏫 Prof. Miki Makihara (QC; CUNY GC Anthropology, Linguistics, LAILAC)
👨‍🏫 Prof. Juan Luis Rodriguez (QC Anthropology)
September 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Here’s the abstract for our first Fall 2025 Colloquium! 📝
Claire Bowern (Yale) will speak on sound change, why it happens (and doesn’t).
Curious to know more? Join us in person at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social or on Zoom (register here:
gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...)
September 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
✨ First Colloquium of the Semester ✨
We’re kicking things off next week! Don’t miss our first Linguistics Colloquium of Fall 2025.
📅 September 25, 4:15-6:15pm
📍Room 8301/8304
💻 Zoom (registration mandatory): tinyurl.com/cunylingcoll...

Stay tuned, the abstract is coming soon!
September 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
📣 Endangered Language Association Presents:

Voices of Enlhet Memory and the Enenlhet / Voces de la memoria Enlhet y los Enenlhet
Sept 26 · 3–4:30 PM ET
💻 Virtual or watch party @ ELA NYC
🗣️ EN/ES interpretation
🔗 Register: lnkd.in/dW7Dy4U9
🌱 More information at: www.enlhet.org | @e.nnengkoo
September 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
September 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Can you believe it’s already been a week since the semester started? 😱 The first week flew by! It was such a joy welcoming our new students and reconnecting with familiar faces! Sharing some snapshots from orientation 📸
September 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🧭 What does ethical fieldwork in linguistics really look like?
Join us for a talk by GC alum Prof. Ignacio Montoya (University of Nevada, Reno) on how academic theory can support more ethical, community-centered language work.

Open to all!
May 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
📢 Join us May 10 @ 10am (EST) for a hybrid talk by Cynthia Montaño (UC Berkeley) on her work documenting Da’an Davi (Mixtec, S. Puebla) via a digital dictionary. Hosted at ELA + GC CUNY D&I Committee.
🔗 Registration here: forms.gle/cP8vFNLn92Lg...
May 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
📢 Join the Spring 2025 ELA Seminar on March 21!

🎙️ "Circles of Oral Knowledge in Digital Motion in Guarani (Tupi-Guarani)"
📍 Hybrid Event – In person & Zoom
📅 March 21, 2025 | 📍 NYC
🔗 Register: lnkd.in/dcK8qxAR

Explore how Guarani oral traditions evolve in digital spaces. See you there! 🌍✨
March 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
📢 Linguistics Colloquium tomorrow, Feb 20!

Join us for Celeste Escobar’s talk on educational resources for displaced Indigenous languages.

📍 CUNY GC, Room C201
⏰ 4:15-6 PM | Hybrid option available (Register here: tinyurl.com/3zt6nscb)
🍷 Come for the linguistics, stay for the wine & cheese!
February 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Join us for our next Colloquium with Dr. Zuzanna Fuchs (USC)!

🗣️ "When Number & Gender Compete: Agreement Features in Heritage Bilinguals"
📅 Dec 5, 2024 | ⏰ 4:15-6 PM
📍 ROOM 9205 | 💻 Zoom: tinyurl.com/2auwa5r9
👉 RSVP: tinyurl.com/2kr2tvby

See you there! 🎉
December 3, 2024 at 8:36 PM
✨ Excited for tomorrow’s Sociolinguistics Lecture!
Join us for a talk featuring Ayala Fader, Britta Ingebretson, and @mikemena.bsky.social , as they dive into the Demystifying Language Project (DLP)! Don't miss out!
November 21, 2024 at 6:59 PM
🎓 Curious about the study of linguistics? Join us for our Open House on November 1st! Discover our programs and meet our faculty. Registration required! 👉https://tinyurl.com/openhouselinggccuny

#Langsky #OpenHouse #Linguistics
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
October 22, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Our PhD student Celeste Escobar will be giving an invited presentation entitled “Ñai’upo: Resilience of the Guaraní language through ceramic art” at Medgar Evers College! More info here: tinyurl.com/56vv6kfa
October 17, 2024 at 6:48 PM