The University of Oregon Department of Linguistics is pleased to be hosting the 2025 Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute, in Eugene, OR, USA from July 7 to August 8, 2025.
The Institute is the largest and most prestigious summer school for linguistics in the world, and has been held since 1928. Eugene is a city of ~170,000 people, home to the University of Oregon, located at the southern end of the beautiful Willamette Valley. Within a 90-minute drive, you will find snow-capped mountains, a gorgeous coastline, wild hot springs, deserted ocean beaches, top-notch wineries, and more.
The theme of the Institute is “Language in Use” and we currently have particular strengths in
- Typology
- Descriptive and functional morphosyntax
- Usage-based, learning-theoretic and constructivist approaches to language acquisition
- Language variation and change, including frequency effects therein
- Construction grammar and formulaic language
- Information-theoretic and probabilistic approaches to linguistic theory
- Bayesian and connectionist approaches to speech and language processing
- Statistical methods in linguistic data analysis
Named Professorships
- Sapir Professor: Balthasar Bickel (University of Zurich)
- Hale Professor: Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Collitz Professor: Sonia Cristofaro (Sorbonne University)
- Fillmore Professor: Laura Michaelis (University of Colorado, Boulder)
- American Dialect Society Professor: Tracey Weldon (University of South Carolina)
Some courses will be held on Monday & Thursday; others on Tuesday & Friday (except for Field Methods, which will be 4 days a week). Wednesdays and weekends will host tutorials, workshops and conferences.
We look forward to seeing you in Eugene!
Co-Directors of the Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
Eugene, OR, 2025
Professor Vsevolod Kapatsinski
Head of the Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon
Professor Kaori Idemaru
School of Global Studies and Languages, University of Oregon
Professor Spike Gildea
Linguistics, University of Oregon
