Category Archives: Of interest to Students
ILIT Students Present Their Research
The past couple of weeks has been a busy time for our students. Not only are they completing their final exams, but they also recently presented their research to the public at the graduate research fair and the undergraduate symposium … Continue reading
Finnish Origins Traced Back to Klingon
Several theories exist as to the geographic origin of Finnish and the other Uralic languages. One such theory, proposed this morning, is that they originated when Klingon ships landed somewhere around the Ural Mountains region and the bend of the middle Volga. … Continue reading
LINGUIST Around the World: A Report from Cameroon
Editor’s Note: Our ELCat Team Leader, Anna Belew, attended a workshop and conference in Cameroon during the summer of 2012. This article was taken from our archives. Ever since I started studying documentary linguistics, my passion has been working with … Continue reading
Dig Your Claws Into ELCat
The ELCat team will be holding office hours at the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) at the Hawai’i Imin International Conference Center on the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa campus. We will be in the Kaniela Room … Continue reading
Linguistic Survey of India now available at LL-MAP
The LL-MAP team is happy to announce the completion of the digital adaptation of the Linguistic Survey of India map collection. This important series of maps was a survey of the languages of British India, conducted in the first several decades of the 20th century … Continue reading
Announcing the LINGUIST List Summer School Registry
For years, LINGUIST List has been keeping its readers informed about conferences, publications, jobs, and more in the world of linguistics. We’re excited to announce that we’ve added another topic to that list: linguistic summer schools and training courses. Over … Continue reading
LL-MAP around the world
The LL-MAP project has been a hub of activity this summer. Our team of graduate students conducted internal training workshops in May and June to train incoming interns on mapmaking using Global Mapper and the LL-MAP uploader, and our team … Continue reading
Introducing the 2012 LINGUIST List Summer Interns
This summer, we’re lucky enough to have nine terrific interns joining us here at LINGUIST List Headquarters. This happens to be the largest group of interns that LINGUIST List has ever hosted (compared to 3-4 in past years), and we couldn’t be more pleased … Continue reading
Congratulations to the 2012 Golden Pig and School Spirit Award Winners!
Remember the LingQuest Graduate Tournament, wherein schools around the world contended for the honor of Top Donor of Fund Drive 2012? You may recall that the University of Washington took top honors, with an astonishing $4205 in donations; the University … Continue reading
LINGUIST List Summer Internships Begin!
The LINGUIST List has offered summer internships to linguistics students since 2007, when our now-Associate Project Manager Matt Lahrman was the first-ever LINGUIST intern (how far and how quickly he rose!). Ever since, LINGUIST List has chosen a few promising … Continue reading
