Linguistics at BU enables students to study human language from various perspectives and consider the relationships between linguistics and other disciplines. Our academic programs offer training in linguistic theory and analysis and include a wide range of courses examining the biological, social, cultural, historical, and cognitive bases of language.
Last month, Professor Coppock was invited to the Princeton - Rutgers Semantics workshop to provide comments on Hans Kamp's paper! https://philosophy.princeton.edu/events/princeton-rutgers-semantics-workshop-0
This Friday and Saturday, May 1-2 2026, BU Linguistics will be hosting the Boston Morphology Workshop (the fourth in the series of Exo-Words workshops, which have previously been hosted at Penn State, Princeton, and UQAM). The schedule and other information can be found on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/bostonmorphologyworkshop/ The talks will be taking place in Room […]
We are proud to announce that four of our students won Boston University Center for the Humanities awards!! Undergraduate Student Awards recognize outstanding students majoring in a humanities or humanities-adjacent discipline: The Robert E. Yellin Award was awarded to both Noah Darby and Maclain Rockett in our department! https://www.bu.edu/humanities/opportunities/undergrads/student-awards/past-award-winners/ Graduate Student Awards recognize outstanding work […]
One of our undergraduate students, a Junior majoring in Linguistics and Computer Science, was accepted to the Emory Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (EULC7)! https://linguistics.emory.edu/news/eulc.html The conference took place virtually in April and Sungjun's talk was entitled "Hangeul as a Computational Medium". Congrats!
Professor Kate Lindsey will be teaching Phonological Typology at ALT-2026 (16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology) in Lyon. Registration is now open! https://alt-2026.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en
BU Linguistics at SULA-TripleA conference in Vancouver (May 12-15): Two of our department's alumni will be presenting at SULA-TripleA this year https://blogs.ubc.ca/sulatriplea/program/: Yuhao Dai (former MA student at BU, now a PhD student at Georgetown): Two perfects in Lhasa Tibetan and the lack of cessation inferences of pa.ree https://sites.google.com/view/yuhao-dai/home Aidan Sharma and Jiayuan Chen (former […]
We'd like to congratulate our professor Kate Lindsey for being accepted as a fellow at the National Humanities Center for the 2026–2027 academic year! She will be working on her book, "A Speaker-Focused Grammar of Ende, A Language of Papua New Guinea." She is the first linguist to receive this fellowship since 1993!
That's a wrap on Giving Day 2026! Thank you so much to those who made donations this Giving Day. Because of your generous support, we were able to raise $2,060 for our students, surpassing our goal!! Your gift will help our students travel for conferences, conduct research, and share their discoveries with the world. Thank […]