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News and updates from The Ohio State Department of Linguistics, one of the largest and most distinguished linguistics programs in the nation. Visit us at linguistics.osu.edu.
Linguistics major Charlie Rowe (advisors: Maria Copot, Andrea Sims) was awarded an Arts & Humanities Small Grant to fund travel to the LSA Annual Meeting for a talk based on their BA thesis “Reconciling diverging frequency effects in inflectional defectiveness: A study of Peninsular Spanish verbs” 🥳
December 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Linguistics major Charlie Rowe (advisors: Maria Copot, Andrea Sims) was awarded an Arts & Humanities Small Grant to fund travel to the LSA Annual Meeting for a talk based on their BA thesis “Reconciling diverging frequency effects in inflectional defectiveness: A study of Peninsular Spanish verbs” 🥳
Connor Rouillier, OSU LING graduate student, was awarded a Graduate Student Research Grant by the Center for Languages, Literatures, and Cultures to help fund dissertation data collection in Saudi Arabia on individuation as encoded in Najdi Arabic agreement variation. Congratulations, Connor! 🥳
Connor Rouillier | Department of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
linguistics.osu.edu
December 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Connor Rouillier, OSU LING graduate student, was awarded a Graduate Student Research Grant by the Center for Languages, Literatures, and Cultures to help fund dissertation data collection in Saudi Arabia on individuation as encoded in Najdi Arabic agreement variation. Congratulations, Connor! 🥳
Dan Parker, OSU Linguistics Associate Professor, has been awarded a College of Arts & Sciences Research Instrumentation and Infrastructure Grant Program Grant for his proposal "Advancing language science research and training with EEG". Congratulations, Dan! 🥳
Dan Parker | Department of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
linguistics.osu.edu
December 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Dan Parker, OSU Linguistics Associate Professor, has been awarded a College of Arts & Sciences Research Instrumentation and Infrastructure Grant Program Grant for his proposal "Advancing language science research and training with EEG". Congratulations, Dan! 🥳
Join us this Friday, Dec 12, as graduate student Sahil Patel presents his Qualifying Paper research. Reception to follow!
QP Presentation: Sahil Patel
linguistics.osu.edu
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Join us this Friday, Dec 12, as graduate student Sahil Patel presents his Qualifying Paper research. Reception to follow!
Linguistics major Charlie Rowe has been awarded an Undergraduate Research Scholarship for their thesis project “Missing or mixed up? What judgements to Spanish verbs reveal about defectiveness”. Congratulations, Charlie! 🥳
December 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Linguistics major Charlie Rowe has been awarded an Undergraduate Research Scholarship for their thesis project “Missing or mixed up? What judgements to Spanish verbs reveal about defectiveness”. Congratulations, Charlie! 🥳
Join us this Friday, Dec 5, as graduate students Ziyuan Cao and Ellie Wren-Hardin present their Qualifying Paper research. Reception to follow!
QP Presentations: Ziyuan Cao, Ellie Wren-Hardin
Qualifying paper presentations
linguistics.osu.edu
December 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Join us this Friday, Dec 5, as graduate students Ziyuan Cao and Ellie Wren-Hardin present their Qualifying Paper research. Reception to follow!
Join us this Friday, Nov 21, as graduate students Tianyi Ni and Yasemin Fincan present their Qualifying Paper research. Reception to follow!
QP Presentations: Tianyi Ni, Yasemin Fincan
Qualifying paper presentations
linguistics.osu.edu
November 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Join us this Friday, Nov 21, as graduate students Tianyi Ni and Yasemin Fincan present their Qualifying Paper research. Reception to follow!
WE'RE HIRING!
Position: Asst Professor of Syntax and Artificial Intelligence
App deadline: Nov 1, 2025
Full description and apply: (see link below)
For inquiries: Andrea Sims, sims.120@osu.edu
Position: Asst Professor of Syntax and Artificial Intelligence
App deadline: Nov 1, 2025
Full description and apply: (see link below)
For inquiries: Andrea Sims, sims.120@osu.edu
Assistant Professor of Syntax and Artificial Intelligence
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October 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
WE'RE HIRING!
Position: Asst Professor of Syntax and Artificial Intelligence
App deadline: Nov 1, 2025
Full description and apply: (see link below)
For inquiries: Andrea Sims, sims.120@osu.edu
Position: Asst Professor of Syntax and Artificial Intelligence
App deadline: Nov 1, 2025
Full description and apply: (see link below)
For inquiries: Andrea Sims, sims.120@osu.edu
Undergrads, come say hello to OSU LING faculty members
and collect treats from them during our Trick or Treat and Greet event, October 27-31! (Costumes are not required.) Times and room numbers in Oxley Hall are listed on the flyer below for participating faculty members.
and collect treats from them during our Trick or Treat and Greet event, October 27-31! (Costumes are not required.) Times and room numbers in Oxley Hall are listed on the flyer below for participating faculty members.
October 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Undergrads, come say hello to OSU LING faculty members
and collect treats from them during our Trick or Treat and Greet event, October 27-31! (Costumes are not required.) Times and room numbers in Oxley Hall are listed on the flyer below for participating faculty members.
and collect treats from them during our Trick or Treat and Greet event, October 27-31! (Costumes are not required.) Times and room numbers in Oxley Hall are listed on the flyer below for participating faculty members.
Please join us at the Faculty Club Grand Lounge from 4-6pm on Oct 29 for Dr. Björn Köhnlein's Inaugural Lecture, "How timing, melody and prominence interact in sound systems". Wine and cheese will be provided! For more info, click below:
Inaugural Lecture: Björn Köhnlein, "How timing, melody and prominence interact in sound systems"
Björn Köhnlein, professor in the Department of Linguistics, gives a lecture titled "How timing, melody and prominence interact in sound systems."
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September 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Please join us at the Faculty Club Grand Lounge from 4-6pm on Oct 29 for Dr. Björn Köhnlein's Inaugural Lecture, "How timing, melody and prominence interact in sound systems". Wine and cheese will be provided! For more info, click below:
Interested in the Afro-Asiatic language family? If you'd like to learn more about Semitic, Egyptian, Cushitic, Berber, Chadic, and Omotic languages, please attend the North Atlantic Conference on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics, hosted Sept 26-28 here at Ohio State! For more info, follow the QR code below:
September 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Interested in the Afro-Asiatic language family? If you'd like to learn more about Semitic, Egyptian, Cushitic, Berber, Chadic, and Omotic languages, please attend the North Atlantic Conference on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics, hosted Sept 26-28 here at Ohio State! For more info, follow the QR code below:
Join OSU Linguistics on Friday, Sept 26 for our first colloquium of the semester! We're excited to welcome Dr. Ryan Cotterell (ETH Zürich) and to hear his talk "The Underlying Logic of Language Models". Click below for further details:
Colloquium: Ryan Cotterell (ETH Zürich)
Title: The Underlying Logic of Language Models
linguistics.osu.edu
September 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Join OSU Linguistics on Friday, Sept 26 for our first colloquium of the semester! We're excited to welcome Dr. Ryan Cotterell (ETH Zürich) and to hear his talk "The Underlying Logic of Language Models". Click below for further details: