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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.

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!✨

03/27/2026

The next talk in our colloquium series will be held on April 3 and will be presented by Laura McPherson (Dartmouth College).
The talk will take place in Humanities 1003 at 15:30 (EST).

Title: Speech surrogacy on the Hmong ncas (jaw harp): Phonetic, phonological, and cultural considerations.

More details here: https://calendar.stonybrook.edu/site/linguistics/event/colloquium----laura-mcpherson/

03/17/2026

Elnaz Azimi (bottom row, third from right) competed in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at Stony Brook University on March 13, 2026. In this event, graduate students are challenged with explaining their research to a general audience in just three minutes.

Elnaz presented "The Chicken-&-Egg Problem of Language Change: Mind First or Speech?" in which she explained how speech sounds have both physical and mental representations. She did a fantastic job sharing how linguistics is a window into the human mind, while also highlighting the practical applications of linguistics in areas such as technology and clinical science.

Congrats, Elnaz!👏

02/24/2026

On Tuesday, February 17th, we hosted an event for undergraduates interested in Speech-Language Pathology with a panel of 8 SLP practitioners, researchers, and instructors. With more than 45 students and alumni attending, along with faculty from several departments and local professionals, students learned about careers in SLP, graduate programs, and research opportunities.

01/17/2026

Scott Nelson, Elnaz Azimi, and William Oliver presented their state-of-the-art research at the 2026 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

More details here: https://linguistics.stonybrook.edu/news/2026/LSA%202026.php

12/08/2025

Prof. Lori Repetti gave an invited talk at the 2025 Going Romance conference, held 3–5 December in Venice, Italy. Her talk, “Two Epenthetic Vowels in Sammarinese: An Information Theoretic Approach to Predicting Epenthetic Vowel Quality,” is joint work with Elizabeth Garza.

More details here: https://going-romance.wp.hum.uu.nl/2025-ca-foscari-university-venice/

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