Andre Batchelder-Schwab awarded Lewis and Clark field scholarship
Congratulations to Andre Batchelder-Schwab, one of our PhD candidates who was recently awarded a Lewis and Clark field scholarship from the American Philosophical Society. He will use this funding to continue his research on a whistled register of the Kinande language! To learn more about the scholarships, see https://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewis-and-clark-fund-exploration-and-field-research
Jackson Kellogg awarded a GRAF
Very exciting news, PhD candidate Jackson Kellogg was awarded a Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF) to travel to Ethiopia this summer to conduct Amharic research for his dissertation! GRAF awards support foreign-based research by doctoral students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences whose field-based or archival research requires an extended period of residence […]
Kate Lindsey to present at SLE
Professor Kate Lindsey was accepted to present at Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) in August. Her presentation is titled “Exploring Reality-Refuting Particles: The Multifunctionality of Ende Ka and Areal Parallels in Komnzo and Idi”. Many congrats to Professor Lindsey!
Recordings of Taeme available on PARADISEC
After linguist Philip Tama made recordings in 2012 of Taeme (a Pahoturi River language), Professor Kate Lindsey and student Brady Dailey compiled and cleaned the dataset. The recordings are now public in the PARADISEC archive! Without their efforts, this dataset would have remained inaccessible. Now, the Taeme community and researchers have access to this important […]
Meet our visiting lecturer: Michael Everdell
Meet our visiting lecturer Michael Everdell (he/him/his)! After receiving his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, Mike has been teaching courses in the BU Linguistics department including Field Methods and Lexical Semantics. He also is managing the SULa (Structures of Understudied Languages) Lab. We are thrilled to have him this year! You can […]
Talk: Felix Kpogo
Recent BU Ling PhD alum Felix Kpogo will be giving an invited lecture at Georgia Tech on October 11. The event will happen from 12-1 pm on Zoom. Felix will be presenting his work on Age & Gender Dynamics in Sound Change: Perspectives from an Understudied Community. Congratulations to Felix!