Linguistics

Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski's life objective was to be self-sufficient and intellectually challenged. They firmly believed that people should be Independent, ambitious, and, most importantly, accountable. Russell worked as a researcher,...

Language matters—spiritually, culturally, emotionally. Written and spoken words are an art form, a way for values and traditions to be passed down for generations. When a language is lost, part of that culture is lost. By the same measure, when language...

A UNM assistant professor of linguistics is studying the Navajo language and Navajo verbs during Native American Heritage Month. Assistant Professor Melvatha Chee studies how children under the age of 10 learn to use the Navajo verb. As the director of...

Dr. Paul Platero, Edge of the Water Clan, died Nov. 16 in an automobile accident. Platero served as director of the Navajo Language Program at The University of New Mexico from 2007 – 2014. Platero grew up in Canoncito, now Tohajiilee, about 30 miles...

Women in STEM researchers from The University of New Mexico's Linguistics department have recently created the Lobo Language Acquisition Lab (LLA LLA), a new research lab focused on child minority language acquisition at The University of New...

University of New Mexico Associate Professor of Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics Naomi Shin has been awarded the prestigious 2020 Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award.  “This award is a tremendous honor to me. I care so deeply about teaching...

University of New Mexico Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs James Holloway and Health Sciences Center Chancellor Dr. Paul Roth recently announced the promotion of seven UNM faculty to the rank of Distinguished Professor. The rank...

It was somewhere around the dawning of the Age of Aquarius and the San Francisco music scene was thriving when a new art form evolved. To promote concerts by not-yet-legendary musicians like the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, and Janis...

Kristina M. Jacobsen, associate professor of Ethnomusicology and Anthropology (Ethnology) at The University of New Mexico, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnomusicology. Jacobsen holds a Ph.D. in Cultural...

Shelece Easterday, who received her Ph.D. in linguistics from The University of New Mexico in 2017, has received this year’s Joseph Greenberg Award from the Association for Linguistic Typology for the best piece of typological research embodied in a...