Archive: Linguistics
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Our Class of 2025: Student Perspectives from the Newest Cohort of Hoyas
We are thrilled to welcome the newest members of the Georgetown community to campus this fall.
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Rising Senior Completes Internship as Health Care Journalist with DC Newspaper
John Woolley (C’22) spent his summer working for Street Sense Media in Washington, DC to gain experience as a political reporter. After writing about health care for the paper, Woolley says that he has a deeper understanding of what it means to do journalism.
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Önder, Hamilton Receive Faculty Awards at Tropaia and Faculty of Languages and Linguistics Ceremonies
Two faculty professors were honored during the annual Tropaia and Faculty of Languages and Linguistics (FLL) Ceremonies on Saturday. Sylvia Önder was awarded the Edward B. Bunn, S.J. Award for Faculty Excellence and Heidi Hamilton received the annual FLL Service Award.
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Linguistics Professor Deborah Tannen Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Department of Linguistics professor Deborah Tannen was recently chosen to become a member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The linguist joins a group of accomplished individu
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New Book by Linguistics Professor Gives New Insights to Field of Cognitive Science
David Lightfoot, a professor in the Department of Linguistics and co-director of the PhD-level Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cognitive Science, recently published Born to Parse through MIT Press. The book provides new contributions to the field of cognitive science, specifically in the area of Minimalist thinking in language acquisition.
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First-Year Student Presented Paper at Prestigious Computational Linguistics Conference
Even before receiving an offer of admission to Georgetown, incoming first-year student Aryaman Arora (C’24) was making waves as a budding computational linguist.
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Three College Professors Honored With Prestigious Research and Teaching Awards
Alison Mackey, Department of Linguistics, John McNeill, Department of History, and Cristina Sanz, Department of Spanish and Portuguese joined Italo Mocchetti, Georgetown University Medical Center, for the honors.
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Linguistics Workshop Examines Social Justice, Language Diversity, and Globalization
The research training workshop focused on multilingual practices and social justice and examined the contributions of different approaches to the analysis of multilingualism within contexts that are crucial to guaranteeing equity and access to all members of society, such as in court and health settings.
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College Faculty Honored with President’s Awards for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers
These awards commend faculty who were nominated by their students and faculty peers for outstanding service to our community and to the Academy as exemplary scholar-teachers, embodying Georgetown’s mission as a student-centered research University.
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Zeldes' Team Awarded NEH Grant for Coptic Linguistics Project
Professor Amir Zeldes of the Department of Linguistics has received a grant of more than $320,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to expand the study of Coptic texts using computational linguistics over the next three years.
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