Matthew Zaslansky has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship

Matthew Zaslansky has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright fellowship in linguistics for the 2019-2020 academic year. Beginning in September, Matthew will carry out linguistic research in the Republic of Georgia to document and describe morphosyntactic variation in the dialects of Georgian Sign Language used by deaf signers in Batumi and Tbilisi. Matthew will be one of more than 700 U.S. citizens to carry out research abroad next year courtesy of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, which is overseen by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. He is the sole recipient of the 2019-2020 Fulbright Study/Research Award for Georgia, and  will be the first grantee from UC San Diego to visit the country.

Since its inception in 1946, the Fulbright Program has provided more than 380,000 participants—chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential—with the opportunity to exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns. Over 1,900 U.S. students, artists and early career professionals in more than 100 different fields of study are offered Fulbright Program grants to study, teach English and conduct research annually in over 140 countries throughout the world.

José Armando Fernández Guerrero was awarded the Ken Hale Student Fellowship

José Armando Fernández Guerrero, one of our first year graduate students, was awarded the Ken Hale Student Fellowship to attend the 2019 LSA Linguistic Institute at the University of California at Davis. This fellowship is awarded to a graduate student who is pursuing a course of study to document endangered languages and work with communities toward their preservation. Congratulations, José Armando!

Matthew Zaslansky and Savithry Namboodiripad present at the “Linguistic Forum 2019: Indigenous languages of Russia and beyond”

Our graduate student Matthew Zaslansky and alumna Savithry Namboodiripad presented a talk entitled “Syntactic Flexibility in the Djar Dialect of Avar: Experimental Evidence from Basic Constituent Order” to the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow at the Linguistic Forum 2019: Indigenous languages of Russia and beyond, April 4-6, 2019. This conference was organized by the Institute in partnership with CIPL – Comité International Permanent des Linguistes / Permanent International Committee of Linguists in honor of the declaration by the United Nations of 2019 as The Year of Indigenous Languages.

TRELS fellowship for Linguistics Undergraduate Student

Claudia Duarte-Bórquez was awarded a Triton Research and Experimental Learning Scholarship (TRELS) for Spring Quarter, 2019. Claudia is working under the guidance of Justin McIntosh on a project documenting and describing San Juan Piñas Mixtec, an Oto-Manguean language spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico and in San Diego county. This project began in the context of LIGN 139, ‘Field Methods’, taught in the Spring 2018 in collaboration with Ms. Claudia Juárez, a native speaker of this language. This May, Claudia will present the results of her investigation in the 22nd annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) at UC Santa Barbara. Her research project will also be showcased at UCSD’s Undergraduate Research Conference on May 18th. Claudia is an undergraduate Language Studies major in her final quarter at UCSD and has plans to attend graduate school to study documentary and descriptive linguistics. Congratulations, Claudia!!!