Linguistics Department
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| Linguistics makes the leap from program to full-fledged department at WWU | 2019-10-17 | ||
| Meet the 2018-19 Outstanding Graduates from CHSS/Social and Behavioral Sciences | 2019-07-25 | ||
| University of Oregon’s Steven Brown to Discuss Japanese Horror Cinema at WWU April 27 | 2018-03-19 | ||
| Western Libraries Announces 2016-17 Undergraduate Research Award Winners | 2017-05-17 | ||
| U.S. linguist works with indigenous women to preserve Paraguay’s Guana language | 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. |
2016-04-11 | |
| Pause Is Seen in a Continent’s Peopling | Using a new method for exploring ancient relationships among languages, linguists have found evidence further illuminating the peopling of North America about 14,000 years ago. Their findings follow a recent proposal that the ancestors of Native Americans were marooned for some 15,000 years on a… |
2014-03-13 | |
| The language link between Siberia and Alaska | Spoken by only a few dozen people, a language uttered in river villages 3,000 miles from Alaska is related to Tlingit, Eyak and Athabaskan. This curious link has researchers wondering how people in the middle of Siberia can be related to Alaskans and other North Americans, and what it means to… |
2012-05-10 | |
| How language ties Siberians and Alaska Natives 3,000 miles apart | Spoken by only a few dozen people, a language uttered in river villages 3,000 miles from Alaska is related to Tlingit, Eyak and Athabaskan. This curious link has researchers wondering how people in the middle of Siberia are related to Alaskans and other North Americans -- and what it means to… |
2012-04-30 |