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Graduate Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York

Welcome to the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York. We offer MA and PhD degrees in theoretical linguistics. Our Executive Officer is Gita Martohardjono, our Deputy Executive Officer is Robert Fiengo, and our Assistant Program Officer is Nishi Bissoondial.

announcements


Spring 2009 courses

The preliminary Spring 2009 course schedule is available here: Spring 2009 Course Schedule. Also course descriptions are posted on the Spring 2009 course page.


Linguistics Program Faculty Ranked Among Nation's Best

Our Program was ranked among the top 10 nationwide in the 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index. Go to Chronicle of Higher Education for more information on the ranking.


Fall 2009 Admissions

Visit the Admissions Office website for an online application.


upcoming events Past events (2005 2006 2007 2008)

October 7, 2008 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

An Apparrent Number Case Constraint in Romanian. (with Andrew Nevins)
Oana Ciucivara (New York University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See more info here

October 16, 2008 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Feature Reassembly in Second Language Acquisition
Donna Lardiere (Georgetown University)
Area of Interest: Second Language Acquisition
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See more info here

October 21, 2008 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Auxiliary use in early Bulgarian and English wh-questions
Lidiya Tornyova (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See more info here

October 23, 2008 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

What's up post-doc? The purpose of and preparation for a post-doc
Isabelle Barriere, Loraine Obler and others (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 6417, CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See more info here

October 24, 2008 (Friday) - Dissertation Defense

The processing of complex syntax and its relation to second language reading comprehension
Gabriella Morvay (CUNY Graduate Center)
Thesis Room, CUNY Graduate Center
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
This is a closed defense.

October 28, 2008 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

TBA
Ivona Kucerova (University College, London)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See more info here

October 30, 2008 (Thursday) - Colloquium

TBA
Sandra Chung (UC Santa Cruz)
Area of Interest: Syntax/Semantics and Austronesian languages
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See more info here

November 4, 2008 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

TBA
TBA (TBA)
Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See more info here

November 6, 2008 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

How to become a Millionaire: Linguistics in private industry
Dr. Joan Bachenko (CEO, Deception Discovery Technologies)
Room 6417, CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See more info here

November 11, 2008 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

TBA
David H. Fournier (University of Toronto)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See more info here

November 18, 2008 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

TBA
TBA (TBA)
Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See more info here

November 20, 2008 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

Taking (and Passing) your First QP
Janet Dean Fodor, Gita Martohardjono and others from the QP1 committee (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 6417, CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See more info here

November 22, 2008 (Saturday)

CUNY / SUNY / NYU MiniConference
This is an all-day event.
See more info here

November 25, 2008 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

TBA
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (University College Brussels)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See more info here

December 2, 2008 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

TBA
TBA (TBA)
Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See more info here

December 4, 2008 (Thursday) - Colloquium

TBA
Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
Area of Interest: First Language Acquisition/Learnability
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See more info here

December 9, 2008 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

TBA
Jim Wood (New York University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See more info here


Special Events of the 2008-2009 academic year

November 13-15, 2008 - The 18th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference

The conference page can be found here.

January 15-17, 2009 - Conference on the foot in Phonology

The conference page can be found here.

Special Events in the 2007-2008 academic year

January 17-18, 2008 - The CUNY Phonology Forum

The forum page can be found here.

November 22, 2008 - The CUNY/SUNY/NYU/YU MiniConference

The conference page can be found here.