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Linguistic Sleuth
Read about the fascinating research of WWU's Dr. Edward Vajda
Story by John Thompson
The Podling: Season 3
Produced and hosted by WWU linguistics students, The Podling season 3 is available now!
WWU LING Student Named 2021 Presidential Scholar
Linguistics and Spanish major, Brahm vanWoerden, has been chosen as the 2021 Presidential Scholar of the Humanities Division of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences
WWU LING Student Presents at CULC15
Aspen Clark, '21, linguistics, presented their research at the 15th annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium (CULC15), May 2021.
CMC Conversation hosts WWU Linguistics professor
Edward Vajda was recently interviewed by by radio host Charles McCullough in a podcast titled "Comparing Siberian Ket language to Native American languages"
Edward Vajda co-authors new Yeniseian dictionary
Edward Vajda, who teaches linguistics, Russian, and Eurasian studies in Western’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Heinrich Werner, the world's foremost expert on Yeniseic (Yeniseian) languages, sought to create a comparative-historical Yeniseian dictionary that is readily accessible to English speakers.
Western Linguistics professors publish 'Thinking like a Linguist'
Western Professor of Linguistics Kristin Denham and Assistant Professor of Linguistics Jordan Sandoval have published a new book that introduces the study of language for undergraduate and beginning graduate students who would like to further their linguistics studies.
Western Linguistics professor coauthored new book
Edward Vajda, professor of linguistics, Russian, and Eurasian Studies in Western’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences, along with his long-time colleague Michael Fortescue (professor emeritus, University of Copenhagen), have published a new book, Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America.
In Memoriam
We lost an important member of our linguistics community, Dr. Shaw Gynan. Read Dr. Shaw's story.
Dr. Anne Lobeck
Professor of Linguistics Dr. Anne Lobeck was inducted into the 2021 class of Fellows of the Linguistics Society of America.
