Primary Faculty

Maya Abtahian

Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath

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  • Associate Professor of Linguistics
  • Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab

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Interests: Sociolinguistics; Language variation and change; Language contact; Language shift

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Asudeh, Ash

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  • Professor of Linguistics
  • Director of Center for Language Sciences

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Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Logic, Language, and Computation; Cognitive Science

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Bray, Andrew R.

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  • Adjunct Professor

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Interests: Sociolinguistics; Language Variation & Change; Linguistics Identities & Personas; Sociophonetics

Greg Carlson

Carlson, Greg

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  • Professor Emeritus of Linguistics

Interests: Semantic Theory; Psycholinguistics; Discourse

Nadine Grimm

Grimm, Nadine

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  • 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

Interests: Grammatical tone; Language documentation and description; Typology; African languages, particularly Bantu

Scott Grimm

Grimm, Scott

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  • Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics
  • Director of Quantitative Semantics Lab
    On leave for the 23-24 academic year

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Joyce McDonough

McDonough, Joyce M.

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  • Richard L. Turner Professor
    Professor of Linguistics
  • Acting Department Chair, AY23-24

Interests: Phonetics, phonology and morphology and their interfaces; Laboratory phonology; Dene (Athabaskan) linguistics; Neural coding of vowels (w Laurel Carney)

Mary Moroney

Moroney, Mary

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  • Adjunct Professor

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Interests: Semantics; Syntax; Definiteness; Quantification; Comparatives; Southeast Asian Languages; Fieldwork

Asia Pietraszko

Pietraszko, Asia

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  • Assistant Professor of Linguistics
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies
    Director of Field Syntax Lab

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Interests: Syntax and Morphology; Clausal Architecture; Bantu Morphosyntax; Selection and Complementation; Syntactic Movement and Locality

Jeff Runner

Runner, Jeffrey T.

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  • Dean of the College in Arts, Sciences and Engineering
  • Professor of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface

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Wamsley, James C.

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  • Adjunct Professor

Interests: Semantics; Pragmatics; Definiteness; Nominal Morphology; Tibeto-Burman languages; Fieldwork

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White, Aaron

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  • Associate Professor of Linguistics
  • Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics
    Director of FACTS.lab

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Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics