Rutgers University Department of Linguistics

09/24/2024

The Department of Linguistics at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick invites applications for a tenure-track position in Linguistics with a focus on Semantics and Pragmatics, at the level of Assistant Professor.

Please see the job posting here: https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/236213.

For full consideration, all materials should be submitted by November 15, 2024.

06/02/2023

We're hiring! The Rutgers University Department of Linguistics invites applications for a full-time, one-year, non-tenure track (nonrenewable) position as a Lecturer in Linguistics with a specialization in Semantics. Duties consist primarily of teaching at the undergraduate level. This is a 3-3 teaching load position; the successful candidate will teach three courses each semester.

For details, please see the job posting here: https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/202641.

For full consideration, applications should be submitted by July 01, 2023. Inquiries about the search should be sent to [email protected].

11/04/2022

We're hiring! The Rutgers University Department of Linguistics is looking to fill a tenure-track position with a focus on Syntax at the level of Assistant Professor.

The candidate must have completed all requirements for a Ph.D. in Linguistics, with a dissertation specializing in Syntax, by August 31, 2023. The position will begin on September 1, 2023.

For more information, please check the job posting here:

The Department of Linguistics at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick invites applications for a tenure-track position in Linguistics with a focus on Syntax, at the level of Assistant Professor. Salary will be commensurate with experience. The position will begin on September....

08/15/2022

Five fresh faces are joining Rutgers Linguistics! Let's all extend a warm welcome to our new grad students for this academic year: Thương (Beryl) Bùi, Vinny Czarnecki, Aidan Sharma, Chenli Wang, and Ariela Lu Ye.

Our new first years have kindly written a few words to introduce themselves. Take a look on our departmental newsletter SNARL: https://sites.rutgers.edu/lgsa/welcome-to-our-new-grad-students/

Welcome to you all! We're all looking forward to meeting you and working with you throughout your program.

Welcome back, as well, to our returning students! It's going to be a great Fall semester!

04/29/2022

Join us today, April 29 at 3:00 p.m., for the last talk of this semester's colloquium series. Yohei Oseki of The University of Tokyo will be speaking on his work on computational models of natural language processing.

Check out his abstract and details on how to join the virtual talk here: https://sites.rutgers.edu/lgsa/news-events/colloquium-series/

04/01/2022

Join us tomorrow, Friday, April 1, as the Rutgers Linguistics Colloquium series continues.

Prof. Amir Anvari of MIT will be presenting his solutions to various problems about semantic oddness.

For more details, please visit our website: https://sites.rutgers.edu/lgsa/event/colloquium-amir-anvari/

03/25/2022

The Rutgers Linguistics Colloquium series continues today, March 25, at 3:00 p.m. on Zoom.

Today's talk features Prof. Asia Pietraszko from the University of Rochester, who will be presenting her work on verbal periphrasis and syntactic structure building.

For her abstract, as well as details on how to attend, visit our website here: https://sites.rutgers.edu/lgsa/event/colloquium-asia-pietraszko/

01/27/2022

The first talk of this semester's Rutgers Linguistics Colloquium will take place tomorrow, Jan. 28, at 3:00 p.m. on Zoom.

Carly Dickerson, one of our own post-doctoral associates here at Rutgers Linguistics, will be presenting her research on the sociolinguistic knowledge of Albanian heritage speakers in the U.S.

Check out her abstract, as well as details on how to join the talk, on the event page on our website here: https://sites.rutgers.edu/lgsa/event/colloquium-carly-dickerson/

12/02/2021

Join us tomorrow, December 3, at 3:00 p.m. on Zoom for the next talk in the Rutgers Linguistics Colloquium series for this semester.

Our guest this week is Prof. Kristine M. Yu from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who will talk about a computational way to build prosodic trees that takes multiple dependencies into consideration.

For more information, including her abstract and details on how to join the Zoom talk, please visit the event page on our website here: https://sites.rutgers.edu/lgsa/event/colloquium-kristine-m-yu/

11/18/2021

Join us tomorrow, November 19, at 3:00 p.m. on Zoom for the next talk in this semester's Rutgers Linguistics Colloquium series.

Prof. Claire Halpert from the University of Minnesota will be speaking on how syntactic licensing of nominals works in Bantu languages, specifically Zulu.

For more information, including her abstract and details on how to join, check the event page on our website here: https://sites.rutgers.edu/lgsa/event/colloquium-claire-halpert/

10/27/2021

NELS 52, the 52nd meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, is coming to Rutgers University!

The Rutgers University Department of Linguistics is proud to host this conference virtually this year. Our invited speakers are:

Enoch Aboh (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Jane Chandlee (Haverford College)
Lisa Cheng (Universiteit Leiden)
Diane Lillo-Martin (UConn)
Hazel Pearson (Queen Mary University of London)

For more information, including the full program and instructions for registration, please head to the NELS 52 website at https://sites.rutgers.edu/nels-52/

Registration is open until October 27.

10/26/2021

Registration is still open for NELS 52. The virtual conference starts this weekend!

NELS 52, the 52nd meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, is coming to Rutgers University!

The Rutgers University Department of Linguistics is proud to host this conference virtually this year. Our invited speakers are:

Enoch Aboh (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Jane Chandlee (Haverford College)
Lisa Cheng (Universiteit Leiden)
Diane Lillo-Martin (UConn)
Hazel Pearson (Queen Mary University of London)

For more information, including the full program and instructions for registration, please head to the NELS 52 website at https://sites.rutgers.edu/nels-52/

Registration is open until October 27.