Primary Faculty
Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath
she/her/hers
- Associate Professor of Linguistics
- Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab
- maya.r.abtahian@rochester.edu
- 514 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Sociolinguistics; Language variation and change; Language contact; Language shift
Asudeh, Ash
he/him/his
- Professor of Linguistics
- Director of Center for Language Sciences
- ash.asudeh@rochester.edu
- 506 Lattimore
Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Logic, Language, and Computation; Cognitive Science
Bray, Andrew R.
he/him/his
- Adjunct Professor
Interests: Sociolinguistics; Language Variation & Change; Linguistics Identities & Personas; Sociophonetics
Carlson, Greg
he/him/his
- Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
Interests: Semantic Theory; Psycholinguistics; Discourse
Grimm, Nadine
she/her/hers
- Assistant Professor of Linguistics
- Director of Language Documentation and Description Program
Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab
On leave for the 23-24 academic year
- nadine.grimm@rochester.edu
- 509 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Grammatical tone; Language documentation and description; Typology; African languages, particularly Bantu
Grimm, Scott
he/him/his
- Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics
- Director of Quantitative Semantics Lab
On leave for the 23-24 academic year
- scott.grimm@rochester.edu
- 512 Lattimore Hall
McDonough, Joyce M.
she/her/hers
- Richard L. Turner Professor
Professor of Linguistics - Acting Department Chair, AY23-24
- joyce.mcdonough@rochester.edu
- 505 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Phonetics, phonology and morphology and their interfaces; Laboratory phonology; Dene (Athabaskan) linguistics; Neural coding of vowels (w Laurel Carney)
Moroney, Mary
she/her/hers
- Adjunct Professor
- mary.moroney@rochester.edu
- 511 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Semantics; Syntax; Definiteness; Quantification; Comparatives; Southeast Asian Languages; Fieldwork
Pietraszko, Asia
she/her/hers
- Assistant Professor of Linguistics
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
Director of Field Syntax Lab
- j.a.pietraszko@rochester.edu
- 510 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Syntax and Morphology; Clausal Architecture; Bantu Morphosyntax; Selection and Complementation; Syntactic Movement and Locality
Runner, Jeffrey T.
he/him/his
- Dean of the College in Arts, Sciences and Engineering
- Professor of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- jeffrey.runner@rochester.edu
- 317L Lattimore Hall
Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface
Wamsley, James C.
he/him/his
- Adjunct Professor
Interests: Semantics; Pragmatics; Definiteness; Nominal Morphology; Tibeto-Burman languages; Fieldwork
White, Aaron
he/him/his
- Associate Professor of Linguistics
- Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics
Director of FACTS.lab
- aaron.white@rochester.edu
- 511A Lattimore Hall
Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics