Linguistics Faculty
Beverly Adams
Assistant Dean of the College (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 1990).
Sentence processing; reading; language comprehension.
Peter S. Baker
Professor, English (Ph.D. Yale University, 1978).
Old English language and literature; Germanic linguistics; history of the English language.
John D. Bonvillian
Associate Professor, Psychology (Ph.D. Stanford University, 1974).
Child language acquisition; child development; sign languages; cognitive processes; psycholinguistics; deafness; child autism.
Ellen Contini-Morava
Professor, Anthropology; (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1983).
Discourse; pragmatics; cognitive and functional linguistics; theories of grammar; tense-aspect-modality; noun categorization; Bantu languages; Swahili.
Eve Danziger
Associate Professor, Anthropology (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1991).
Verb argument structure, semantic typology, language and cognition, anthropological linguistics, child language and cultural socialization, ideologies of symbolic representation, Mayan linguistics, spontaneous sign languages.
Dudley Doane
Lecturer; Director, Center for American English Language and Culture (Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2003).
Lise Dobrin
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Chicago 1999).
Morphology (noun classification, inflection), phonology, endangered language linguistics, language description and preservation, Arapesh languages (Papua New Guinea), Tok Pisin, Hebrew.
Hoyt N. Duggan
Professor, English (Ph.D. Princeton University, 1969) [emeritus].
Historical linguistics; medieval studies; Old and Middle English language and literature.
Mark J. Elson
Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1973).
Linguistic theory; morphology; historical linguistics; Slavic and Balkan linguistics.
Coulter George
Assistant Professor, Classics (Ph.D. University of Cambridge, 2002).
Greek and Indo-European linguistics, diachronic syntax and pragmatics
David Golumbia
Assistant Professor, English and Media Studies (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1999).
Computers and language, computational linguistics, theories of language, history and politics of linguistic theory, indigenous languages, standardization.
Mitchell S. Green
Associate Professor, Philosophy (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 1993).
Philosophy of mind and language, emphasizing pragmatic approaches to issues concerning linguistic meaning, reference, truth, and propositional attitudes.
Peter Hook
Professor, Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1973) [emeritus].
Typological and historical linguistics, Indo-Aryan languages, linguistics and literature.
Dell Hymes
Professor, Anthropology (Ph.D. Indiana University, 1955) [emeritus].
Linguistic anthropology; ethnopoetics; history of linguistics.
Virginia Hymes
Lecturer, Anthropology (M.A. Indiana, 1954; A.B.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1972 [emerita]).
Native American languages; linguistic anthropology; ethnopoetics.
Vikram Jaswal
Assistant Professor, Psychology (Ph.D. Stanford University, 2003).
Early word learning; pragmatics; cognitive development.
Daniel Lefkowitz
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Asian and Middle East Languages and Cultures (Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin, 1995).
Language and culture; language and identity; language and emotion; sociolinguistics; semiotics; Semitic languages; intonation; discourse analysis.
Jan L. Perkowski
Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1965).
General and Slavic linguistics; dialectology; folklore; Russian and Eastern Europe.
Joel Rini
Professor, Spanish (Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1987).
Medieval Spanish language and diachronic linguistics; historical Spanish syntax; Ibero-Romance morphosyntax; morphophonology; phonology.
John T. Roberts
Associate Professor, Asian and Middle East Languages and Cultures (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1966) [emeritus].
Sanskrit, Prakrit, Apabhramsa; historical Indo-Aryan; historical linguistics.
Marion W. Ross
Assistant Professor, Anthropology; ESL Director (Ph.D. Cornell University, 1971) [emerita].
English as a Second Language; Vietnamese; anthropological linguistics.
Gilbert W. Roy
Associate Professor, Asian and Middle East Languages and Cultures (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1972) [emeritus].
Asian linguistics; semantics; phonology.
J. David Sapir
Professor, Anthropology (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1964) [emeritus].
West African descriptive linguistics and folklore.
Gladys E. Saunders
Associate Professor, French (Ph.D. University of Michigan).
French phonetics and phonology; history of the French language; Romance dialectology; French applied linguistics; contact linguistics.
Mohammed Sawaie
Professor, Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (Ph.D. Ohio State University, 1980).
Arabic linguistics; sociolinguistics; Arabic dialectology; history of linguistics; syntax; discourse analysis.
Emily Scida
Associate Professor, Spanish (Ph.D. Cornell University, 1998).
Historical and comparative Romance linguistics, especially historical syntax, dialectology, Spanish and Portuguese syntax, Relational Grammar.
Fernando Tejedo-Herrero
Assistant Professor, Spanish (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2004).
Interests include historical lexicography and lexicology, historical linguistics, Romance linguistics, history of the Spanish language, contemporary Peninsular Spanish language, dialectology, and sociolinguistic approaches to language change.