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Laurels to Linguists

Alice Harris (University at Stony Brook) has been named the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Read more ...

Sally McConnell-Ginet (Cornell University) and Betty Tuller (Florida Atlantic University) have been elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read more...

In the Spring quarter, Elizabeth Traugott will be a Visiting Professor in the Departments of English and Linguistics, Stockholm University, where she will teach a course on constructionalization.

John Rickford of Stanford has been named as the recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award of the University of California, Santa Cruz for 2009-10. Read more...

Walt Wolfram was named the NC Humanities Council Caldwell Humanities Laureate for 2008-09. Read feature stories on the award here and here.

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