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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, who will be on sabbatical for the 2009-2010 academic year. Our Deputy Executive Officer, Robert Fiengo, will be acting Executive Officer for the 2009-2010 academic year. Our Assistant Program Officer is Nishi Bissoondial .

announcements

Spring courses

The Spring course schedule is available here: Spring 2010 Course Schedule. Also course descriptions are posted on the Spring 2010 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 2011 Admissions

Visit the Admissions Office website for an online application.

upcoming events Past events (2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 )

 

February 2, 2010 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Syntactic Structures of the World's Languages
Chris Collins (New York University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

February 16, 2010 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

TBA
TBA
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

February 18, 2010 (Thursday) Colloquium

TBA - Semantics
Roger Schwarzchild (Rutgers University)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15PM - 6:00PM

February 19, 2010 (Friday)

SQUID
Showcasing Quirky and Unusual Ideas in Development
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

February 26, 2010 (Friday) Sociolinguistics Lunch

TBA
Cecilia Cutler (Lehman College, CUNY)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

March 2, 2010 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

TBA
Hiroshi Hasegawa(Harvard University / Senshu University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

March 5, 2010 (Friday) - RISLUS Event

Acquisition of NYC English phonetic features by Caribbean immigrants: a pilot study
Patrick-Andre Mather (New York University)
The CUNY Graduate Center
See the abstract here

March 11, 2010 (Thursday) Colloquium

TBA - Neurolinguistics
Michael Ullman (Georgetown University)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15PM - 6:00PM

March 12, 2010 (Friday) Sociolinguistics Lunch

TBA
Valentina Pagliai (Queens College, CUNY, CUNY)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

March 16, 2010 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

TBA
Adam Szczegielniak(Harvard University / Senshu University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

April 6, 2010 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

TBA
TBA
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

April 8, 2010 (Thursday) Colloquium

TBA - Syntax
Lisa Green (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15PM - 6:00PM

April 9th, 2010 (Friday) Sociolinguistics Lunch

TBA
Gregory Guy (New York University)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

April 20, 2010 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

TBA
Pritty Patel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

May 4, 2010 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

TBA
William Bennett (Rutgers University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

May 6, 2010 (Thursday) Colloquium

TBA - Phonology
Kathleen Currie Hall (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15PM - 6:00PM



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.