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Congratulations to all of the department’s graduates this year!
We will be celebrating this year’s graduates at the 2026 Linguistics Diploma Ceremony this Sunday, June 14 at 12:45pm, preceded by a reception starting at 12:00pm, in…
Alex Jaker (Ph.D. '12) and his students recently presented at the 46th Annual Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference held May 27-29 at the University of Kansas. Alex presented a phonetic study of Dakota stress, while his student Akiṡ'a…
On May 22, 2026, Arto Anttila gave a colloquium titled "A Parametric Theory on Prose and Verse" at the Department of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz.
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Grace Brown, who has been awarded a G.J. Pigott Scholars Program Fellowship. This award "recognizes graduate students in the Humanities whose work is of the highest quality."
Please join us in congratulating Adolfo Hermosillo, Anissa Zaitsu, and Bran Papineau for their successful dissertation orals.
Adolfo's dissertation is titled "Expressing Personal Taste in Mexican Spanish".Anissa's dissertation is…