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! alt-2026.sciencesconf.org?lang=en&fbcl...
Two alumni and one professor will be presenting at SULA-TripleA this year! blogs.ubc.ca/sulatriplea/...
- Yuhao Dai (former MA student at BU, now a PhD student at Georgetown)
- Aidan Sharma and Jiayuan Chen (former MA student; now PhD student at Rutgers)
- Prof. Elizabeth Coppock
Professor Kate Lindsey was 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 since 1993! nationalhumanitiescenter.org/the-national...
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!!
Today is Giving Day!
We have currently raised $535! Thank you so much to all our donors so far. To close the gap, we still need your help! Visit our Giving Day page at give.bu.edu/schools/Bost.... We appreciate your support!
Save the date for Giving Day: April 8, 2026! give.bu.edu/.../arts-sci....
Your support uplifts our students, such as Vasileios Michos, who was able to attend CoLang2024 with the support of the department. Watch the video below to hear his own testimony about the experience!
Tomorrow is BU Giving Day!
Visit our Giving Day page now to make an early donation, or save the link for tomorrow! give.bu.edu/schools/Bost.... We appreciate your support!
@bualumni.bsky.social
Save the date for Giving Day: April 8, 2026!
Visit our Giving Day page to donate early give.bu.edu/schools/Bost.... We appreciate your support!
Giving Day: April 8, 2026! give.bu.edu/schools/Bost...
Our students ask fundamental questions about one of humanity's most remarkable abilities: language. They are already making an impact—presenting at conferences, conducting fieldwork, and running studies in our labs.
@bualumni.bsky.social
Save the date for Giving Day: April 8, 2026!
Visit our Giving Day page at give.bu.edu/schools/Bost.... We appreciate your support!
@bualumni.bsky.social
Save the date for Giving Day: April 8, 2026!
Visit our Giving Day page at give.bu.edu/schools/Bost.... We appreciate your support!
@bualumni.bsky.social
Save the date for Giving Day: April 8, 2026!
Our goal is to raise $2,000 for:
✈️ Graduate student conference travel
🌍 Fieldwork on languages around the world
🎓 Undergraduate research opportunities
🧠 Participants in student language research
Visit our Giving Day page at give.bu.edu/schools/Bost...
Congrats to PhD student Rebecca Dufie Bonney who presented a paper titled "African Languages and the Expansion of Heritage Phonology Research" at the Fifth International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages. She co-presented with Matthew Ajibade (Indiana University).
Liza and Chloe standing next to each other. Liza has red hair and is wearing a black floral dress. Chloe has black curly hair and is wearing a black cardigan and blue shirt.
Liza Sulkin and Chloe Guttmann presented at LINC last week as part of the "Beyond Fracture" conference!
Liza Sulkin and Chloe Guttmann will both be presenting on a panel at the Literatures & Linguistics Interdisciplinary Conference (LINC) this Thursday at Florida State University!
You can catch them at the "Dialogues at a crossroads" panel at 2:00-3:20. mllgraduatestudentconference.wordpress.com
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 at alt-2026.sciencesconf.org?lang=en!
Professor Coppock recently presented at LangCog (Harvard University):
Title: Unifying dependent-indefinite and independent-universal reduplicated numerals in Newar
Newar is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in the Kathmandu Valley region of Nepal with a rich classifier system.
Neil Myler's abstract for his talk
Professor Neil Myler @ CRISSP
CRISSP (Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics, and Phonology) is happy to announce another installment in the CRISSP Lecture Series:
Title: Morphomes, look-ahead, and what to do about them: Illustrations from Romance
www.crissp.be/events/the-m...
COGEL (the committee for gender equity in linguistics) is an open committee of the LSA formed to track, promote, and ensure equity and inclusion.
Their annual meeting is at the LSA on Friday 1/9 at 11:30 in the Balcony J room and on Zoom (bostonu.zoom.us/j/9723455052...).
genderinlinguistics.org
Flyer showing our talks for Day 1 (Friday). For the details, go to the LSA website's official program and filter by "Boston University"
Flyer showing our talks for Day 2 (Saturday). For the details, go to the LSA website's official program and filter by "Boston University"
Flyer showing our talks for Day 3 (Sunday). For the details, go to the LSA website's official program and filter by "Boston University"
We are proud to announce the many students and professors in our department who will be participating in the 2026 LSA annual meeting!
For the full schedule with times and locations, you can check out the official program on the LSA website.
#lsa2026
Congrats to Professor Lindsey who recently published in Open Text Collections at Language Science Press! Available for download: langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
Compiled by the Ende Language Committee, the texts represent a diverse set of authors, illustrators, and translators from the community.
So, this marks our first 50 years. Thank you all for participating in the #BUCLD50 and for the contributions and support of our community! With all of you, we look forward to the next 50 years.
Photos and other exciting materials are on the way!
##BUCLD50 #BUCLD #LanguageDevelopment
Sophie Hao, assistant professor of linguistics and computer science in CAS, applies theoretical and empirical methods from linguistics, computer science, cognitive science, and philosophy to analyze, evaluate, and explain the linguistic capabilities and limitations of LLMs.
Congrats, Prof. Hao!
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BU Ling's own Prof. Sophie Hao @profsophie.bsky.social was awarded a Moorman-Simon Career Development Professorship!
This professorship recognizes faculty who are conducting interdisciplinary work and hold appointments in multiple schools and colleges at BU.
www.bu.edu/articles/202...
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Michael Everdell at Taller de los Amigos de las Lenguas Yutoaztecas 2025
Title: A reanalysis of the pɨx particle: Mirative readings from an exclusive base
Our lecturer Michael Everdell represented BU this month, sharing his insights about the "pɨx" particle in Tohono O'odham!
Professor Neil Myler @ University of São Paolo
Title of talk: Towards a syntacticist account of heteroclisis in Spanish verb conjugation.
Professor Myler will be representing BU in a talk on October 24! If you'd like to join via Zoom, register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
This week, Professor Elizabeth Coppock gave a talk at Sinn und Bedeutung entitled "Unifying arithmetic and mereological division". The conference takes place in-person at Goethe University in Frankfurt from September 23-27, 2025. Check out the conference program: vicom.info/sub30-progra...
PhD student Yulu Qin was accepted as first author on a paper submitted to NeurIPS. The title is "Vision-and-Language Training Helps Deploy Taxonomic Knowledge but Does Not Fundamentally Alter It". You can learn more about NeurIPS here: neurips.cc/Conferences/.... Congrats Yulu!
Congratulations to PhD candidate Jackson Kellogg for passing his dissertation prospectus defense! His dissertation will be on prosody in Amharic. This summer, he was able to travel to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to conduct experiments and gather the necessary data for his dissertation.
Anthony Yacovone joins us as a new Assistant Professor! Anthony is a specialist in psycholinguistics and child language acquisition. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2023 and his research involves the use of methods like neuroimaging, eye-tracking, and computational modeling.
