Brown Linguistics faculty and students study such topics in a wide range of languages from across the globe and using a wide range of empirical methodologies. Particular strengths of our program include the study of language variation (within a language, across languages, and within society), and the study of meaning, communication, mind and the role of information in the ways languages are structured.
Linguistics
Linguistics
The Brown Program in Linguistics is dedicated to the systematic study of languages as highly structured systems which speakers have unconsciously mastered and use for communication, social meaning and many other purposes.
Linguistics
The Brown Program in Linguistics is dedicated to the systematic study of languages as highly structured systems which speakers have unconsciously mastered and use for communication, social meaning and many other purposes.
Academics
Brown Linguistics offers AB and ScB Concentrations in Linguistics.
The Brown Program in Linguistics offers a range of courses across different areas of Linguistics.
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AnderBois and partner organization open field station
Linguistics professor Scott AnderBois traveled to Ecuador to continue work with A'i colleagues on A'ingae dictionary, making use of the new field station built with ICCA, an indigenous-led NGO.
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Visiting Assistant Professor Peter Grishin Joins Linguistics Program
Peter Grishin has joined the Program in Linguistics as a Visiting Assistant Professor.
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Congratulations 2025 Graduates!
On May 25th, the Program in Linguistics held a department ceremony for the Class of 2025.
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Linguistics is currently housed on the ground floor of Arnold Lab at 91 Waterman St.
The Brown Linguistics community is made up of core faculty, staff, visiting professors and postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students and affiliate faculty.