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Your donation furthers the Society’s mission by supporting graduate students and other promising junior scholars around the world. Funding supports teaching and research, international conferences, books, journals and other academic publications.

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  • "Being a Columbia School fellow has given me the opportunity to pursue a graduate education and a career in linguistics. The continued support of the CSLS has allowed me to carry out the research leading to my master’s thesis, disseminate my findings at international conferences, and begin work on my PhD dissertation project."

    Ludmila Novotny

    Universidad Nacional de La Plata

  • "Since I became a Columbia School Linguistic Sociey fellow, I have published articles in two respected journals and I am getting ready to defend my PhD thesis. This would not be possible without the generous support of our donors.”

    Daan van Soeren

    University of Groningen

  • "My research as a fellow afforded me the chance to more closely observe language, which in turn helped me be a much better teacher to my high school students. The inquiries that began at the CSLS seminar table found a home in my New York City classroom."

    Kelli Hesseltine

    The City College of New York

  • What I learned about language from Erica García has influenced my work for more than 50 years. As new approaches have developed in theoretical linguistics and in the study of language contact, I have appreciated and learned from them, but have always found that the insights of William Diver remain central to my thinking in all fields of the study of language. This has been for me a great personal satisfaction and a road to professional success.

    Ricardo Otheguy

    Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)

Your donation furthers the Society’s mission by supporting graduate students and other promising junior scholars around the world. Funding supports teaching and research, international conferences, books, journals and other academic publications.

The Columbia School Linguistic Society was founded in 1999 for the purpose of advancing research that has come to be known as Columbia School linguistics (CS). CS linguistics was first developed by Professor William Diver and his  first student, Professor Erica García, who were at the time on the faculty of the Department of Linguistics of Columbia University.  CS linguistics analyzes language as an instrument of communication that is used by its speakers for expressive purposes, and is therefore useful in many areas of theoretical and applied linguistics including language teaching and legal (forensic) linguistics, and may also be of particular interest to emerging artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

Click here to learn more about CS. 

Members and Fellows share what drew them to Columbia School linguistics

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