Ohio State Linguistics

08/26/2026

It's not too late to give some great linguistics books and journal issues a new home on your shelf--for FREE! The Great Oxley Linguistics Book Giveaway will continue Wednesday, Aug 26, in the lobby area of Oxley Hall. Come one, come all! 📚

07/24/2026

Our undergrads are excited to share with you their COSI Language Pod summer research! There's still time to catch their flash talks from 1-2pm today in Oxley Hall, Room 103. 🤓 For more about the Pod, follow the link below:

Language Pod buckeye language network The Language Pod @ COSI •Visit Us on Facebook! • Read all about us! The Language Sciences Research lab at the Columbus Center of Science and Industry (COSI) is dedicated to the study of language and the dissemination of knowledge about language sciences. The...

07/15/2026

Check out the Spring 2026 edition of our newsletter! 😎

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06/30/2026

Congratulations to OSU Linguistics Assoc Prof Dan Parker on his multi-year NSF award! 🥳 The 3-year grant, "Integrating retrieval and prediction in sentence processing using attention-based LLMs", will use LLMs to test and develop psycholinguistic theories of human sentence processing.

06/09/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, OSU Linguistics faculty member, on her promotion to the rank of Professor! 🥳

06/09/2026

Congrats to OSU Linguistics grad students Sara Court and Yi-Chien Lin who have received Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences Summer Graduate Awards! 🥳

06/09/2026

Congrats to OSU Linguistics grad student Tomiris Kaumenova who has received a Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences Summer Graduate Scholarship! 🥳

05/22/2026

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! 🥳

05/22/2026

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

05/01/2026

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.

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):...