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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


Dissertation Fellowship for 2008-2009

Congratulations to Marisa Monteleone for being awarded the Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship


Fall 2008 courses

The preliminary Fall 2008 course schedule is available here: Fall 2008 Course Schedule. Also course descriptions are posted on the Fall 2008 course page.


Prof. Otheguy's study featured in the New York Sun

A study by Prof. Ricardo Otheguy and his colleagues has been featured in the New York Sun.


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) | Fall 2008 courses (PDF) | Fall 2008 course descritions

May 1, 2008 (Thursday) - Colloquium

An (almost) new perspective on grammatical categorisation
Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See more info here

May 2, 2008 (Friday)

SQUID3
NA (CUNY Graduate Center)
TBA
12:00 AM -
See more info here

May 6, 2008 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Acquisition of gender concord in French DPs: Spontaneous speech and elicitation data
Phaedra Royle (Université de Montréal)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See more info here

May 8, 2008 (Thursday) - Colloquium

CANCELLED
David Pesetsky and Esther Torrego (MIT and UMass Boston)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See more info here

May 13, 2008 (Tuesday)

Dissertation Defense: “A second route to truth: Feature-placing existence and the interpretation of there-sentences”
Rachel Szekely (CUNY Graduate Center)
12:00 AM -
See more info here

May 21, 2008 (Wednesday)

Special Guest Lecture: Voice and Relativization without Movement in Malagasy
Edward L. Keenan (UCLA)
The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
See more info here

May 22, 2008 (Thursday)

Graduation/end of semester party
TBA
CUNY Graduate Center Linguistics Department
4:00 PM -
See more info here

May 23, 2008 (Friday)

Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society (RISLUS) Research Forum 2008
NA (CUNY Graduate Center)
CUNY Graduate Center
9:00 AM - 5:00 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.

Special Events in the 2007-2008 academic year

January 17-18, 2008 - The CUNY Phonology Forum

The forum page can be found here.