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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We're excited to welcome Professor Chris Collins (NYU) for the first Linguistics Colloquium of the semester! Sep 3, 2026, 4:15 PM (ET) Room 9207 or Zoom. Talk: A Merge-Based Approach to Argument Structure Register at the link in bio!

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Episodes 2 & 3 of Duolingo’s anime language series are now live, featuring our PhD Candidate Vicki as a linguist contributor! 🎉 We’re proud to see our students contributing their expertise to @duolingoverde.bsky.social 👏 Ep. 2: youtu.be/MkvHOL99DzA Ep. 3: www.youtube.com/watch?si=KMH...

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Linguist Breaks Down Naruto's Biggest Dubbing Mistakes

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Last colloquium of the semester, don't miss it! ✨ This Thursday we're hosting Prof. Florian Schwarz from UPenn for a talk titled "Presupposition projection: interaction between linear order and truth conditional context" Register at the link in bio. See you there!

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

On Thursday, April 16 at 4:15pm, Professor Kate Lindsey (Boston University) will present Two Lies and a Truth: Uncovering the Facts about Chuvash Stress. This talk is offered both in person and remotely. Register at the link in bio!

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The Second Language Acquisition Lab at the CUNY Graduate Center is recruiting Turkish speakers in the U.S. or Germany for an online study on Turkish and bilingualism. Not eligible? Please share, word of mouth really helps! slalab.gc.cuny.edu/post/new-stu... #linguistics @verbingnouns.bsky.social

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Interested in a (paid) study about Turkish language use?

The Second Language Acquisition Lab (SLAL) at The City University of New York (CUNY) is inviting participants to take part in a short online research study on how Turkish is used and understood by peo...

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

📢 Call for Participants – Turkish Speakers The Second Language Acquisition Lab at the CUNY Graduate Center is recruiting Turkish speakers in the U.S. or Germany for an online study on Turkish and bilingualism. Not eligible? Please share, word of mouth really helps! More info at the link in bio.

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Join us for the second Linguistics Colloquium of the semester featuring Gary Thoms (New York University). Professor Thoms will present a talk titled: “Case alternations and the dance of subjects and objects”. 📅 March 12, 2026 ⏰ 4:15 PM (ET) 📍 Room 9205 🔗 Registration link in bio

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

💬🌎 Happy International Mother Language Day to those who celebrate! Today, we reaffirm the value of every language: those we grow up with, inherit, learn, mix, and carry across borders.

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

During International Mother Language Day Week, join us for Spirit Language, a talk grounded in Indigenous epistemologies. 📅 Friday, Feb 20, 2-4pm | Hybrid event 🔗 Register at the link in bio!

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

🎶 ELA Revitalization Seminar - Spring 2026 Is there a relationship between documenting traditional songs and music and the revitalization of Mapuzugun? 🗓️ Feb 20, 2026 | 4:30–6:00 PM (ET) 🎤 Andrea Salazar Vega + ülkantufe 📍 Hybrid: ELA (NYC) & Zoom 🔗 Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/86...

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Our first Linguistics Colloquium of the semester is coming up! 🎤 Maria Kouneli (Rutgers University) 📖 Marked nominative in Nilo-Saharan 🗓 Feb 5, 2026 | ⏰ 4:15 PM ET 📍 Room 9205 Register at the link in bio!

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Huge congratulations to PhD Candidate Aidan Malanoski on two honors from the @americandialect.org: 🏅 Presidential Honorary Membership Award, recognizing outstanding students (and including 4 years of complimentary ADS membership) 🏅 Best Student Poster Award at the ADS Annual Meeting

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

📣 Happening this Friday! Sociolinguistics Brunch with Prof. Laada Bilaniuk 🗓 Dec 12, 2pm 📍 Room 7102 + Zoom 🔗 Register at the link in bio!

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Huge thanks to our SYNC organizers (Jie Sheng, Leila Habibi, Nazmiye Öyük) and Chairs (Ilaria Porru, Maggie Matte, Clara McMahon), and to all our speakers for an inspiring day of research. Swipe for some highlights!

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Our final stretch of 2025 is packed! This week we have our: 📚 Last Colloquium ☕️ Last Socio Brunch 🎉 End-of-Semester Potluck party (current students & faculty only) See you there!

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

On Jan 23, join us for a full-day workshop dedicated to Logical Phonology - a minimalist, substance-free theory of phonology which makes limited ontological commitments and uses set-theoretic representations and a rule interpretation procedure based on subsumption. Find out more at the link in bio!

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Laura Bailey @linguistlaura.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

SynTeach is going to #LSA2026! We're doing focus groups while we're there so if you're interested, fill in the form and tick the LSA box. We're looking for teachers and students, people who loved syntax and people who hated it... anyone with syntax Thoughts! #linguistics forms.gle/PiBYpVPr1yg2...

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SynTeach Focus Group Interest Form

SynTeach is a project researching peoples' experiences teaching and learning syntax in higher education. We have conducted surveys of the field including syntax instructors and students, and we are pl...

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

📣 Our final Linguistics Colloquium of the semester is this week! Join us for Prof. Lei Liu’s talk, “Why Some Sentences Trip Us Up: Insights from Minimalist Grammar Parsing Models.” 🗓 Thursday, Dec 11 ⏰ 4:15–6:15pm 📍 Room 9207 Register at the link in bio! All are welcome! ✨

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Keynote at SYNC right now! Prof. Garley presents "Orthographic instability and orthographic freedom in language contact"

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

📣 Sociolinguistics Brunch on Dec 12! We’re excited to host Prof. Laada Bilaniuk for a talk on Ukrainian dialects, surzhyks, code-switching, and language politics. 🗓 Dec 12, 2pm 📍 Room 7102 + Zoom 🔗Register at the link in bio!

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

SYNC is tomorrow at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social! 🎉 Come support our GC Linguistics students as they present across Experimental, Syntax/Semantics, and Computational Linguistics, plus a keynote by our own Prof. Matt Garley. More info at the link in bio! See you there! 💙✨

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

SYNC is tomorrow at the GC! 🎉 Come support our students presenting their research: • Katsiaryna Aharodnik • Evan Li • Malek Azadegan See you there! 💙✨ sync25.commons.gc.cuny.edu/schedule/

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

📝 Getting Work Published workshop with Prof. Blevins! For current GC Linguistics students only. Dec 4 · 4:15–6:15 PM · Room 7102.

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Today, skip the Black Friday chaos and register for SYNC instead! 🔗 Link in bio.

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🍁Happy Thanksgiving from our department to yours! Wishing you a restful break, delicious food, and a quiet inbox. ✨

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

📣 It’s that time of year: the SYNC schedule is out! Our annual student-led conference with Stony Brook, Yale, NYU, and CUNY is back (and this year, we’re hosting it!) 📅 Saturday, Dec. 6th 📍 GC CUNY 🔗 Full schedule: link in bio

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Our next Linguistics Colloquium is TOMORROW! Join us for a talk by Milena Šereikaitė (Cornell University): ✨ “On the nature of syntactic atoms: a view from Lithuanian Nominalizations” 📍 Hybrid: Room 4116 & Zoom All are welcome! Register at the link in bio

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The City University of New York @cuny.edu · 31/10/2025

🎃 Happy Halloween to our CUNY community — stay safe, have fun, and don’t ghost your assignments! 💀📚

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

💻 GC Linguistics students, join us for the next Professional Development session with Prof. Caplan: “Using online platforms for data collection” 🗓️ Next week - Thursday Nov 6, 4:15–6:15pm. Room 7102 👩‍🏫 Led by Prof. Caplan 🔹Note: this event is open only to Linguistics department students.

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

🍽️ Sociolinguistics Brunch Join us for Marrying the Monster, a talk by Kaushalya Perera (University of Colombo) exploring ELT, ESL, higher education, and the World Bank. Friday, Oct. 31 - 10am-12pm 🗓️ Hybrid event | 🏛️ CUNY Graduate Center, Room 7102 or Zoom 🔗 tinyurl.com/52z9zm4x

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Sociolinguistics Talk with Kaushalya Perera. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

We’re happy to share that Kyle Gorman and Charles Reiss have a forthcoming paper in Phonology (@universitypress.cambridge.org): “Metaphony in Substance-Free Logical Phonology.” 👏 Congratulations to Prof. Gorman and Prof. Reiss on this exciting achievement!

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

“Yous talkin’ to me?” A massive new project is capturing how New Yorkers really sound — from “Mary” to “marry” and everything in between. Read more

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Only in New York: Linguists Build a Database of Everyday Talk Across the Boroughs

Graduate Center scholars lead a project to document the accents and speech patterns unique to New York in an unprecedented record.

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

DEADLINE POSTPONED TO OCT.26!! Submit your abstract - link in bio!

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🎉 Congrats to Celeste & Matt! They'll present at #LSA2026: “A Data-Driven Classification of Fluid Predicates in Paraguayan Guaraní.” Their work, from our Field Methods course, explores active/inactive morphology and meaning flexibility. We look forward to hearing your talk!

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

LAST DAY to submit to SYNC!! Don't miss out on the opportunity to share your work with NYU, CUNY, Yale AND Stony Brook all at once! More info at the link in our bio - we hope to see you there!

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

⏰ You’re still on time! SYNC 2025 (the student conference uniting CUNY, NYU, Stony Brook & Yale) is calling for abstracts! 🌆 Share your research, connect with peers, and join the NYC linguistics community. Deadline: TOMORROW 👉 sync25.commons.gc.cu...

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

SYNC 2025 (the student conference uniting CUNY, NYU, Stony Brook & Yale) is calling for abstracts!! 🌆 Share your research, connect with peers, and join the NYC linguistics community. Find out more at the link in our bio!

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Live from NELS 56! 🚀 Professor Sam Alxatib is giving his keynote "Embedded tense: how to learn what some things can(not) mean" Abstract: wp.nyu.edu/artsampscien...

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Launching tomorrow! 🎉🗽 The CUNY Corpus of New York City English (CCNYCE) debuts 12–2 PM, Room 9206. NSF-funded resource for studying language variation & change across NYC. Join us to find out more and celebrate!

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Tomorrow we are hosting two events! 🎓 9:30am-4:15pm Open House 🎤 4:15pm Colloquium w/ Athulya Aravind (Yale) Come for the tour, stay for the talk. 🗽

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Thinking about grad study in Linguistics? 👀 Join our Open House on Thursday, Oct 16! 🍴 Lunch + Q&A with students 🧭 Tour our labs and spaces 📍 CUNY Graduate Center 🕛 9.30am-6:15pm Come meet the community behind GC Linguistics!

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Big week ahead at GC Linguistics! 🎓 Oct 16 – Open House + Colloquium 🗽 Oct 17 – Launch of the CUNY Corpus of NYC English Mark your calendars!

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Next week’s Colloquium: Athulya Aravind (Yale University) on Under-agreement in child grammars 🗓 Oct 16, 4:15–6:15 PM (Room 4116 | Zoom) Don’t miss it - register via QR code or link in bio!

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

📢 Call for Abstracts: SYNC 2025 Dec 6 @ CUNY Graduate Center 🎓 Annual linguistics conference for grad students from Stony Brook, Yale, NYU & CUNY. Submit your abstract by Oct 19! 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Reviewers welcome too — details on the SYNC site.

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

📣 Calling all GC Linguistics students! 📅 Oct 9: Prof. Cece Cutler leads a workshop on Article-based vs. traditional dissertations. Learn the pros & cons of each format as you plan your dissertation path. 👉 Current students only.

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