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Two perspectives on cultural preservation
Lenore Grenoble and Wei-Cheng Lin, AM’99, PhD’06, reconstruct Arctic languages and Buddhist artifacts, respectively.
Lenore Grenoble is the John Matt...
Five UChicago Humanities Faculty Members Receive Named, Distinguished Service Professorships
The following was published in UChicago News on January 6, 2025.
Five University of Chicago Humanities faculty members have received distinguished ...
Two Humanities Scholars to Receive 2024 Quantrell Awards
The following was posted on UChicago News on May 16, 2024.
The transformative education offered at the University of Chicago begins in the classroo...
Generative research
Producing sentences and identities with Linguistics junior faculty
The five junior faculty members in UChicago’s Department of Linguistics are invest...
Two perspectives on a divided America
Clifford Ando and Chris Kennedy discuss problems of communication, identity, and trust.
Clifford Ando, the David B. and Clara E. Stern Distinguished ...
Endangered Speakers
How does language contact lead to language loss?
The Republic of Sakha—in northeastern Russia, near the Arctic Circle—has one of the harshest climate...
Linguistics for Laypeople
How browsing the library stacks led to a book and a career
Arika Okrent, PhD’04 (Psychology and Linguistics), owes her writing career to procrastinat...
Native Knowledge
Junior scholars bring modern touches to linguistics’ traditional focus.
Founded in the mid-1930s, UChicago’s Department of Linguistics is one of the ...
Unearthed
Linguistic detectives solve textual mysteries.
UChicago assistant professor Yaroslav Gorbachov claims, “Historical linguistics is probably the least ...
New Tools, Old Questions
UChicago linguists look for the building blocks of language.
FIFTY YEARS AGO, if you met a linguist at a dinner party and asked him how he did his re...