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The Department of Linguistics at Stony Brook University is a leading center for research and training

The Department of Linguistics at Stony Brook University is a leading center for research and training in all areas of modern linguistics. The department offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in theoretical linguistics and in TESOL. Research areas represented in the department include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and first and second language acquisition as well as experi

mental approaches to these areas. Faculty expertise includes a wide range of languages/language areas such as Austronesian, East Asian, Romance, Semitic, Slavic and signed languages. The intellectual life of the department is diverse and dynamic and is enriched by active interdisciplinary research projects with faculty from other departments.

08/15/2026

Prof. John Frederick Bailyn gave a plenary talk “The Non-cartographic Nature of Slavic Syntax” at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistic Society, held at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea, on August 13, 2026.

He also presented “‘Meet the Blockers!’ A non-phasal account of weak island asymmetries” at the Seoul National University Linguistics Colloquium on August 14, 2026.

More details here:
- https://sites.google.com/view/sls21seoul2026/home?authuser=0
- https://en.snu.ac.kr/snunow/events?md=v&bbsidx=173726

08/11/2026

Magda Markowska and Jeffrey Heinz published their article "Learning k-ISL functions with phonological features" in the Journal of Language Modelling.

05/24/2026

Brian Frank was awarded the Staff Excellence Award at the Difference You Make 2025 Awards and Recognition Ceremony on May 12, 2026. Several department faculty were on hand to cheer him on. As the award announcement confirmed, “Brian has transformed the department through his leadership, innovation, and exceptional attention to detail.”

More details here: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/cas/news/Difference_you_make/TheDifferenceYouMake2026.php

Congratulations, Brian! 👏

05/23/2026

John David Storment has published a new paper, "Two is better than one: Subject DPs in Spanish third person plural arbitrary sentences", in Borealis: International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics. Here is the link: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/8333?brid=YWdncwHs0o12PjnFNlqxmuBjamX5

05/15/2026

John David Storment (our former Phd student and visiting scholar at Stony Brook) and prof. Francisco Ordóñez presented their work at West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 44 (WCCFL), which took place in Mexico City on May 6-8, 2026. The talk was entitled: "Reflexive and impersonal voice in Spanish: A smuggling approach."

More details here: https://wccfl44.github.io/WCCFL44/

04/16/2026

The next talk in our colloquium series will be held on April 24 and will be presented by Emily Clem (UC San Diego).
The talk will take place in Humanities 1003 at 15:30 (EST).
Title: Even dependent case is Agree.
More details here: https://calendar.stonybrook.edu/site/linguistics/event/colloquium----emily-clem/

04/11/2026

Prof. Richard Larson gave an invited talk on 10 March 2026 at the 6th International Conference on Adverbial Clauses Theme: Adverbial Clauses: New Horizons, held at the Free University in Berlin. The talk was entitled: "Adverbial clauses, INFL, and switch reference."

More details here:https://www.lukasz-jedrzejowski.eu/conferences/adverbial-clauses-2026-6/Schedule%20–%20Adverbial%20clauses%20-%20New%20horizons%20–%20final.pdf

04/10/2026

John David Storment (our former Phd student and current visiting scholar) has published "Quotative inversion as Smuggling: Evidence from Setswana and English" in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (NLLT). Here is the link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-026-09705-8

Congratulations!✨

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