Student-made webpages

In Fall 2006, students in Christina Esposito's Endangered Languages class made websites featuring specific endangered languages for their final assignment. The following sites are some of the results of this project.
Dyirbal, by Emily Peterson. Dyirbal is spoken by about five people in northeastern Australia.
Ket, by Eric Weisser. Ket is spoken in Siberia by a few hundred people.
Okinawan, by Hideyoshi Coryne. Okinawan is spoken on islands between Japan and Taiwan.
Quechua, by Katherine Whitmore. Quechua is an official language of Bolivia and Peru, with about 10 million speakers.
Selk'nam, by Samantha Ross. Selk'nam, now extinct, was spoken in extreme southern South America.
Tok Pisin, by Joseph Berns. Tok Pisin is a creole spoken in New Guinea.

Honors program

Students with a grade point average of 3.0 or higher are encouraged to write an honors thesis. An honors thesis is a year-long project for which students conduct in-depth research in a topic of their own choosing. Topics have ranged from purely linguistic concerns to those that cross over to fields such as political science, education, the biological sciences, and women's and gender studies.

Past Linguistics Honors Projects:

• Takanori Adachi, 1993. Sarcasm in Japanese.
• Susan Cox, 1995. Relativizers in Spoken Tibetan.
• Lars Jönsson, 1995. Sarcasm with Particular Reference to German.
• Benjamin Matthews, 1995. A Preliminary Investigation of Gay Male Speech.
• Amy Webber, 1996. A Man's Writing, a Woman's Speech: The Gender Factor in Written Language.
• Kobin Kendrik, 2003. The Izzo and Language Change.