Welcome to the Linguistics Department

UF's Linguistics Department offers the Ph.D., M.A. (both thesis and non-thesis), B.A., and two undergraduate minors (the Linguistics minor and the TESL minor).  TESL Certificates are offered at the undergraduate level, and SLAT certificates at the graduate level. We currently have 24 faculty (combining budgeted and affiliated from Anthropology, LLC & S&P), well over 200 undergraduate majors and over 50 graduate students.

NEWS
Training Workshop for Multi-modal Language Documentation, March 16-17, 302 Pugh Hall
This is the second annual training workshop on multi-modal language documentation for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, led by Dr. Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Program Director, Endangered Languages Documentation Program, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. It is organized by the Linguistics Department, the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and Center for African Studies, University of Florida.

Dr. Stefanie Wulff Joins UF Linguistics
Professor Aa href="http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/swulff/">Stefanie Wulff joins the Linguistics Department as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in August 2012. Dr. Wulff earned her PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Bremen in 2007. Her research applies methodologies from corpus linguistics to TESL and SLA. She is the author of Rethinking Idiomaticity: A Usage-based Approach (2008) as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Wulff will teach LIN 4721 Second Language Acquisition in the Fall.

UF Linguists win Language Documentation Funding
Associate Professor James Essegbey received a "Small Grant" from the Endangered Languages Documentation Program (ELDP) to document linguistic practices relating to fishing among the Dwang communities south of the Volta Lake in Ghana.

Linguistics graduate student Bryan Gelles received a "Small Grant" from the Endangered Languages Documentation Program (ELDP) to begin documentation and to establish the feasibility of a full scale documentation of Animere, a critically endangered Niger-Congo language spoken in the Ghana-Togo Mountain region.

Linguistics graduate student Todd Hughes received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation to study Wakhi, an endangered language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and China. As part of his research, Todd will spend six weeks in Pakistan, where Wakhi is particularly threatened due to widespread persecution and large scale displacement.

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