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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Congratulations 2025 Graduates!
On May 25th, the Program in Linguistics held a department ceremony for the Class of 2025.
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Brown faculty and students at SALT 35
Faculty member Scott AnderBois and co-authors gave two talks at Semantics and Linguistic Theory 35 hosted by Harvard University including one presented by current undergraduate co-authors Daniel Kang '25 and Koda Li '26.
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Koda (Wenjing) Li presents at CULC 19
Koda (Wenging) Li presented his paper "Binding in Coordination" at the 19th CULC in Ithaca, NY
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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.