Graduate Research Forum this week!
The first Graduate Research Forum (GRF) of fall 2026 is tomorrow! It will be held October 7th, from 5:00-6:30 p.m. in the Linguistics Department. GRF is our student-run series dedicated to presentations, workshops, practice talks, and other activities. Tomorrow, we are lucky to have not one, but two presenters! First, we have BU’s own Alex Chotai, […]
Alumni Yuhao Dai at SULA-TripleA
BU linguistics alum Yuhao Dai, currently a PhD student at Georgetown, presented at SULA-TripleA on May 12-15 at the University of British Columbia. His poster was entitled “Two perfects in Lhasa Tibetan and the lack of cessation inferences of pa.ree”. Here he is pictured with Lisa Matthewson!
Four Linguistics department students win BUCH awards
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 […]
Sungjun Kim at Emory Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (EULC7)
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 at ALT-2026
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
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 […]
Professor Kate Lindsey awarded fellowship at the National Humanities Center
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!
Rebecca Dufie Bonney at the Fifth International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages
Congrats to PhD student Rebecca Dufie Bonney who presented a paper titled “African Languages and the Expansion of Heritage Phonology Research” this past February in Los Angeles. She co-presented with Matthew Ajibade (Indiana University). You can read a summary of her paper below: This paper examines how African heritage languages, such as Yoruba and Akan, […]
Liza Sulkin & Chloe Guttmann at LINC
Liza Sulkin and Chloe Guttmann presented at the Literatures & Linguistics Interdisciplinary Conference (LINC) at Florida State University. This year’s conference theme was “Beyond Fracture”. Both presented at the “Dialogues at a crossroads” panel.
Professor Myler to present at CRISSP
Professor Neil Myler @ CRISSP CRISSP (Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics, and Phonology) is happy to announce another installment in the CRISSP Lecture Series: Lecturer: Neil Myler (Boston University) Title: Morphomes, look-ahead, and what to do about them: Illustrations from Romance Date & time: 10–11–13 March 2026, 12.00–15.00 (10 March), 10.00–13.00 (11 March), 13.00–16.00 […]