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Department of Linguistics | Linguistics Cornell Arts & Sciencesarrow grid linear view icon Jump to main navigation Jump to main content The College of Arts Sciences Site Search SearchAcademics Overview Graduate Program Undergraduate Program Courses People Department Faculty Affiliated Faculty in Other Departments Emeritus Faculty Current Graduate Students Current Undergraduate Students Research Research Labs Language Corpora Publications Reading GroupsDepartment Contacts Outreach Outreach Resources & Links Alumni Resources Department Calendar Internal Faculty Site Linguistics Eclipsing Our Rivals Shohini Bhattasali Accepts PostDoc Congratulations to our 2019 graduates! Prev Next NewsSummer and Fall 2019 Conference Wrap Up Summer and Fall 2019 brought a new wave of conferences, with our graduate students representing Cornell Linguistics.Sign of the times: American Sign Language thrives on campus At the chalkboard is senior lecturer Brenda Schertz, a whirlwind of energy who has been teaching ASL for more than 20 years at institutions including Northeastern University, Emerson College, the University of Southern Maine and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology. View all news Events FEB 12 American Sign Language Conversation Hour (Intermediate) Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun... FEB 13 American Sign Language Conversation Hour (Beginning) Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun... FEB 13 Linguistics Colloquium Speaker: Esti Blanco-Elorrieta ... View all events Pick a Destination Undergraduate Program Graduate Program Faculty Linguistics Resources Language & the Law - LING 2223 Discover how language impacts the theory and practice of law. Topics include: origins of legal language, linguistics in the courtroom, plagiarism and language rights. This course also introduces areas of linguistics such as syntax, semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics, which explicate a wide range of legal matters where both spoken and written language come to fore. By the Numbers 1946 Year department was founded 7097 Number of distinct languages spoken throughout the world 169 Indigenous languages currently spoken in the United States Become a Linguistics Major Explore the undergraduate program ​ ​ See the Campus Visit A&S ​ ​ Support the Department Give to Linguistics ​ The College of Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Graduate Faculty Contacts 203 Morrill Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853 607-255-1105 - lingdept@cornell.edu ©2020 Cornell University If you have a disability and are having trouble accessing information on this website or need materials in an alternate format contact web-accessibility@cornell.edu for...