Anthony Yacovone joins us this fall as a new Assistant Professor!
Anthony is a specialist in psycholinguistics and child language acquisition. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2023, working with Jesse… More
Sophie Hao joins the faculty!
The linguistics department is thrilled to welcome Sophie Hao to the faculty as Assistant Professor. A specialist in computational linguistics, Professor Hao… More
Michael Everdell co-authors a paper in Glossa
Visiting Professor Michael Everdell co-authored a new publication in Glossa: "Verbhood and state/change of state lability across languages" https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/10003/ More
Ousmane Cisse defends his dissertation prospectus
Last month, PhD candidate Ousmane Cisse successfully defended his dissertation prospectus! His dissertation is based on the preliminary results of his second… More
Michael Everdell presents at SALT
Professor Michael Everdell and his colleague Prerna Nadathur presented a popular poster at the SALT (Semantics and Linguistic Theory) conference! You can… More
Liza Sulkin defends her dissertation prospectus
Congratulations to PhD candidate Liza Sulkin who defended her dissertation prospectus! A prospectus is a preliminary description of a proposed dissertation. Her… More
BU Ling at ACAL 2025
Four BU Ling members (and an alum!) presented at The Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) this month! Pictured left to right… More
Kevin Samejon accepts tenure-track position
After receiving his PhD this month, Kevin Samejon has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in Sociolinguistics at the University of Nebraska,… More
Work on VO compound morphology by Vasilis Michos
PhD student Vasilis Michos' work on VO compound morphology is now printed as part of a proceedings volume! You can read his… More
Najoung Kim selected as keynote speaker
Professor Najoung Kim was chosen as a keynote speaker for the 10th Workshop on Representation Learning for NL (RepL4NLP 2025)! The event… More