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Cory Shain was an invited speaker at the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2026)...
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (Ph.D. '12) was an invited speaker at the Universal Dependencies Workshop 2026 (UDW 2026), which...
Ph.D. student Samba Kane presented a talk titled "Subject Extraction Asymmetry in Pulaar Relative Clauses" at the 57th Annual Conference...
Meghan Sumner was an invited speaker at the 2026 Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (...
Ashwini Deo (Ph.D. '06) is teaching at the LISSIM12 Summer School in India, hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology...
Meg Cychosz gave a talk at the Language Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing (LEAP) Workshop at University of Chicago on May...
Congratulations to all of the department’s graduates this year!
We will be celebrating this year’s graduates at the 2026 Linguistics...
Please join us in congratulating Adolfo Hermosillo, Anissa Zaitsu, and Bran Papineau for their successful dissertation orals.
Adolfo's...Congratulations to seniors Caleb Benz, Nicholas Harvey, and Grace Wong and co-term MA student Oliver Lee, who are inductees to...
We are excited to introduce our incoming Ph.D. cohort, who will be joining the department in the fall of 2026! ...
Please join us in congratulating Beth Levin, who received an Outstanding Leader Award this year from the Stanford Faculty Women’s...
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Anton de la Fuente, who was awarded a 2026 Graduate Student Grant by The Europe Center...
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Marie Tano, who was awarded a 2026 Graduate Research Mini-Grant by the Center for Comparative...
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Grace Brown, who has been awarded a G.J. Pigott Scholars Program Fellowship. This award "recognizes graduate...
Robert Hawkins is a co-recipient of a 2025 HAI Seed Research Grant. Robert's project, co-led with Tobias Gerstenberg (Psychology)...
Alex Jaker (Ph.D. '12) and his students recently presented at the 46th Annual Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference held May...
On May 22, 2026, Arto Anttila gave a colloquium titled "A Parametric Theory on Prose and Verse" at...
The Sesquip is taking a break for the summer, but please continue sending us your news! We plan to publish...