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Evale wins 2nd runner-up at K-Speech World Contest

27 August 2024
BA Linguistics (Plan A) student Excella M. Evale won 2nd runner-up at the foreign contestant division of the 28th K-Speech World Contest organized by the Embassy of…

Hello, Ma’am Abbi!

24 August 2024
Let us welcome the Department’s newest lecturer of Bahasa Indonesia/Malaysia, Therese Maria Abigail V. Ledesma! Read more about her background, research interests, and future goals in…

Welcome, Brian!

21 August 2024
The Department is proud to introduce its newest faculty member, Instructor Brian Salvador C. Baran. Read more about his background, research interests, and future goals in…

Faculty Spotlight: Poi Canilao

19 August 2024
One of the main thrusts of the Department is the teaching of the national languages of Asia. We are thus very fortunate to have Assistant Professorial Fellow…

De Pano presents on ‘sin’ at grad conference

15 August 2024
Instructor John Michael De Pano presented his paper, “On the classification of sin:A diachronic analysis of sin-related words across 15 Philippine languages,” at the 2024…

Javier, Asuncion to give lecture on importance of linguistic diversity

06 August 2024
Associate Professor Jem R. Javier and Teaching Associate Patricia Y. Asuncion will give a lecture titled, “‘Marami nga, eh ano naman?’ Ang Kahalagahan at…

De Chavez participates in research workshop for Korean teachers

02 August 2024
The Department’s Korean language senior lecturer Mark Rae De Chavez is currently in Korea to participate in the Research Workshop for Overseas KFL Educators (국외 한국어…

Santiago, Cruz obtain MA degrees

01 August 2024
Congratulations to Instructors Vincent Christopher Santiago and Noah Cruz on both getting their MA in Linguistics degrees! Santiago’s thesis is titled…

Pizarro-Guevara, Farinella discuss Tagalog reflexives and intonation

31 July 2024
Visiting Research Fellows Dr. Jed Pizarro-Guevara and Alessa Farinella of the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst gave back-to-back installments of the 2024 Linguistics Special…

Congratulations, UP Linguistics Batch 2024!

30 July 2024
The Department congratulates the 20 BA Lingg and six MA Lingg graduates who were all conferred their degrees at the 2024 KAPP Araw ng Pagkilala: “Dangal,…