Department of Linguistics

UIUC Hosts U.S. Universities Arabic Midwest Debate Championship

Through April 19-21, 2024, a significant milestone was achieved with the inception of the inaugural U.S. Universities Arabic Midwest Debate Championship at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The event was coordinated by the...

Congratulations to 2024 Award Winners and Graduates!

On Wednesday May 1st, our department gathered for its annual Year-End Graduation and Awards Celebration. It was a wonderful time to reflect on the past year, and to recognize our amazing students. Congratulations to our awardees! We wish you continued growth and success! Awards...

Join us for GASLA-17

The 17th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) conference will take place at the UIUC campus May 2-4, 2024 in the Levis Faculty Center. GASLA-17 is a venue for linguists to present theoretically informed research on second language...

Join Us for Student Award Ceremony and Dedication of the Chin-Woo Kim Phonetics Laboratory

We cordially invite you to join the the Linguistics Student Award and Graduate Recognition Ceremony and the Chin-Woo Kim Phonetics Laboratory Naming and Dedication Ceremony that will take place in Lucy Ellis Lounge on Wednesday, May 1, 4pm - 6pm. Join us in celebration of an excellent year's work...

Eman Saadah awarded 2024 SLCL Diversity & Engagement Award

We are excited to recognize Dr. Eman Saadah for receiving the 2024 SLCL Diversity & Engagement Award! This award recognizes alumni or members of the community at large who have made significant contributions (tangible and intangible) to the SLCL community; contributions which...

Sid Bhushan

My favorite thing about linguistics is how versatile of a field it is. Language is everywhere and it's possible to study so many different aspects of it.

Sarah Clark

The Linguistics program at UIUC is well-rounded and rigorous with innovative and supportive faculty. My outstanding advisor, Professor Rakesh Bhatt, has unwaveringly encouraged my work as a military sociolinguist and actively ensures that I am gaining the tools that I will need to be successful both now and after graduation.

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Featured Courses Fall 2024

Inner aspect focuses on how predicates denote events: whether they are linguistically coded as complete or incomplete. This course compares examples from English, Spanish, Turkish, Romanian, Hungarian, Russian, Czech, Malagasy, Tagalog, and more!

Ling 591

This course will bring together the theoretically oriented study of second language acquisition (SLA) with classroom and lab-based intervention research about grammar teaching.

Ling 591

Semantics of Non-Declaratives Course Card

Did you ever wonder how a truth-conditional semantic theory could deal with questions, commands, and other sentences that don’t have truth values? Now is your chance to find out!

Ling 591

This course explores the intersections between language learning, language teaching, and technology. Learn about a variety of TILT tools including Langcaches, Virtual Worlds, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and a lot more!

EIL 587