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SIL colloquium will feature Stuart Thiessen July 26

Stuart Thiessen will present his findings on “A Grammar of SignWriting” at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 26, in 300 Merrifield Hall. He holds a master’s [...]

Stephen and Cathy Marlett featured in National Geographic

Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) professor Stephen Marlett and his wife Cathy, like Cathy’s parents before them, have worked for decades among the Seri people [...]

Linguistics colloquium will feature Albert Bickford July 19

Albert Bickford will present “Adapting EGIDS for Signed Languages” at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 19, in 300 Merrifield Hall.
The Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS) [...]

SIL colloquium will feature Cathy Marlett July 12

Cathy Marlett will present “A Seri Ethnography of Mollusks” at 8 p.m. Thursday, July12, in 300 Merrifield Hall. Through ethnography, Marlett explores the linguistic issues [...]

SIL colloquia will feature Keren Rice July 2 and 5

Keren Rice, president of the Linguistic Society of America, will be speaking Monday, July 2, on “Ethics in Fieldwork,” and again Thursday, July 5, on [...]

SIL colloquium will feature Kevin Sparks June 28

Banker-linguist Kevin Sparks will speak at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 28, in 300 Merrifield Hall on analysis of the US Financial Crisis of 2008-2009 from [...]

Summer Institute of Linguistics celebrates 60 years of language training excellence

“It was UND’s idea to start this program here,” said Albert Bickford, director of the UND-SIL. “The SIL program here is accredited–not all SIL programs [...]

William Croft to lecture on semantics and cognition at special SIL colloquium

William Croft, professor of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, will present two special lectures on social cognition and spatial semantics as part of [...]