Ohio State Linguistics

Dr. Ash Lewis, who recently defended her PhD in Comp Ling here at OSU, has accepted a 3-yr postdoc in Prof. David Schlangen's Foundations of Computational Linguistics Lab at the U. of Potsdam. She’ll be continuing to work on hallucination evaluation in dialogue, among other topics. Congrats, Ash! 🥳

OSU linguistics major Quinn Seitz has been awarded an Undergrad Research Scholarship for the thesis project "Polyfunctionality of English derivational affixes". Congrats, Quinn! 🥳

Interested in the debate around modularity in linguistic grammar? Want to hear from leading (inter)national researchers with a range of perspectives on the topic? 😎 Join us this Thurs, May 7 for the Modularity in Grammar workshop! 🎉 9am to 5:30pm in Oxley 103; see link below for full details.

Modularity in Grammar Program Modularity in Grammar A Workshop on a Central Debatein Linguistic Theory May 7th, 2026, 9am-5:30pmOSU, Department of Linguistics, Oxley Hall 103   9-10 Nomi Erteschik-Shir (Ben-Gurion University): What islands can tell us about modularity10-10:30 Mike Putnam (Pennsylvania State University):...

Come hear our undergraduates present their research next Tuesday, April 28, at our Undergraduate Research Seminar Miniconference! 😎 The event will be held from 1-5pm in Jennings Hall (Room 040), right across Neil Avenue from Oxley Hall.

Join us this Thursday for a Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) Lunch & Learn with Dr. Anna Babel: "Bolivian migrants to Spain: Why we (should) care about linguistic awareness". Lunch will be provided, and registration is required!

Bolivian migrants to Spain: Why we (should) care about linguistic awareness Please join us for this Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) Lunch & Learn featuring Dr. Anna Babel, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Dr. Babel will share about the research she conducted during her research under U.S. Department of Education Fulbrig...

Join us today @ 2pm in the Ohio Union for the Buckeye Language Network (BLN) Annual Symposium / the Center for Cognitive and Brain Science (CCBS) Spring Event! 🎉 Take a stroll through the graduate and undergraduate poster sessions, and enjoy a 4pm invited talk by Adam Aleksic (the Etymology Nerd). 🤓

Events | The Buckeye Language Network Events buckeye language network Upcoming Events 12th annual BLN Symposium (2026) The BLN annual symposium will be held on Friday, March 27th 2026, including an invited talk by Adam Aleksic (the Etymology Nerd) and a graduate poster session. The symposium will be collocated with the Center for Cognit...

Join us this Friday, March 6, for a colloquium talk by one of our very own OSU Linguistics faculty members, Karee Garvin, entitled "Coupling enhancement: Effects of co-speech gesture on the magnitude and stability of oral gestures." Abstract and event details at the link below!

Karee Garvin (The Ohio State University) Coupling enhancement: Effects of co-speech gesture on the magnitude and stability of oral gestures Humans rarely speak without producing co-speech gestures of the hands, head, and other parts of the body. Co-speech gestures are also highly restricted in how they are timed with speech, typically sync...

Thank you, Katherine Howitt (U of Maryland) for your colloquium talk! Next week, join OSU Linguistics for TWO MORE colloquia: on MONDAY, Feb 23, we'll hear from Giuseppe Varaschin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), and on FRIDAY, Feb 27, Adam Singerman (Syracuse U) will present. Receptions to follow!

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Join us next week for TWO colloquium talks: on MONDAY, Feb 9, we'll hear from Eva Neu (UMass Amherst), and on FRIDAY, Feb 13, Jessi Grieser (UMich) will present. Come hear about their research at 3:55pm in Oxley Hall, Room 103. Receptions to follow both events!

Laura Siragusa (Asst Prof of Teaching) + collaborators Octavian Robinson & Margaret Price were awarded an OSU Feminist Research, Education and Engagement Center grant entitled "Care Linguistics Network" to study pedagogical approaches that enhance student training before/after fieldwork. Congrats! 🎉

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