Primary Faculty

Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath
she/her/hers
- Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
- maya.r.abtahian@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4258
- 514 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Sociolinguistics; Language variation and change; Language contact; Language shift

Asudeh, Ash
he/him/his
- Professor, Department of Linguistics
- Director of Center for Language Sciences
Director of Graduate Studies
- ash.asudeh@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5907
- 506 Lattimore
Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Logic, Language, and Computation; Cognitive Science

Carlson, Greg
- Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
- gregory.carlson@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5907
Interests: Semantic Theory; Psycholinguistics; Discourse

Grimm, Nadine
she/her/hers
- Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
- Director of Language Documentation and Description Program
- nadine.grimm@rochester.edu | (585) 273-2366
- 509 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Grammatical tone; Language documentation and description; Typology; African languages, particularly Bantu
Grimm, Scott
- Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics
- Director of Quantitative Semantics Lab
- scott.grimm@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5136
- 512 Lattimore Hall

McDonough, Joyce M.
- Richard L. Turner Professor
Professor of Linguistics
- joyce.mcdonough@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2895
- 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, Department of Linguistics
- mary.moroney@rochester.edu
- 511 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Semantics; Syntax; Definiteness; Quantification; Southeast Asian Languages

Pietraszko, Asia
- Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- asia.pietraszko@rochester.edu
- 510 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Syntax and Morphology; Clausal Architecture; Processes underlying Structure Building; Bantu Morphosyntax

Runner, Jeffrey T.
- Dean of the College in Arts, Sciences and Engineering
- Professor of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- jeffrey.runner@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5000
- 317L Lattimore Hall
Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface

White, Aaron
- Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
- Director of FACTS.lab
- aaron.white@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8053
- 511A Lattimore Hall
Interests: Computational psycholinguistics; Syntactic and semantic theory; First language acquisition