The annual fall General Assembly of all MLC graduate students, graduate advisors and LPDs will take place on Friday, Sept. 20, beginning at 2:15 PM, in the Forum at the Ferguson Center. The meeting is mandatory for all MLC graduate students, and recommended for all graduate advisors and LPDs. (Other available MLC faculty and staff
Place: Unitarian Universalist Meeting Hall 6400 New Watermelon Road
Come learn about funding opportunities for summer, semester, and year-long study abroad! For more information, see: Language Scholarships
For information, see: https://www.ua.edu/events/event/160526
Dr. Rey Romero (University of Houston-Downtown) will address the role of language in society and the incidence of sociopolitical contexts in language development and use, with a focus on language shift, language and identity, and language maintenance. Dr. Romero is an Associate Professor of Spanish (Ph.D., Georgetown University) at The University of Houston-Downtown. In addition
Public lecture given by Dr. Chad Howe, Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Georgia. This presentation will focus on the use of corpus data in understanding ongoing linguistic change in Spanish and Portuguese intensifiers. Intensifiers are known to be prime candidates for gauging language change and variation (across regions and age groups)
