06/07/2017 12:00:00 AM Campus NewsDepartment of Linguistics and Technical Communications, Department of Political ScienceResearch, Political Science, LinguisticsstoryThree UNT professors were awarded a National Science Foundation grant to study the effects of political conflict on language and culture. The grant will allow Shobhana Chelliah, a professor in the Department of Linguistics who initiated the idea, and her co-collaborators James Meernik and Kimi King from the Department of Political Science to host a conference in 2018 and research the issues more deeply. "This is a new partnership between linguistics and political science to see how our two disciplines improve understanding of the complex issues around language endangerment and political instability," Chelliah says.