Linguistics
Professor of Modern and Classical Languages Edward Vajda has co-authored a new Yeniseian dictionary. Vajda, who teaches Russian, linguistics, and Eurasian studies in Western’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Heinrich Werner, the world's foremost expert on Yeniseic (Yeniseian)…
Western Professor of Linguistics Kristin Denham and Assistant Professor of Linguistics Jordan Sandoval have published a new book that introduces the study of language for undergraduate and beginning graduate students who would like to further their linguistics studies.
“Thinking like a…
Linguist Shaw N. Gynan, from Western Washington University, has been working with four indigenous women in northern Paraguay’s Rio Apa community to preserve the endangered Guana language.
Western Washington University senior and Bellingham resident Carla Widman has been selected as one of 75 participants in the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals, a year-long, federally funded fellowship for study and work in Germany.
Widman will leave for an…
The Western Libraries at Western Washington University will play host to a talk by Shaw N. Gynan, professor of Spanish and director of Linguistics at WWU, titled “A Week with the Ishir Awatoso: Techniques of Elementary Literacy Instruction in an Endangered Language.”
The…