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Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath
she/her/hers
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Director of Graduate Studies
Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab
- Office Location
- 514 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Sociolinguistics; Language Variation and Change; Language Contact; Language Shift
Aceves Rodriguez, Constanza
she/her/hers
PhD student in Linguistics and Computer Science
- Advisor(s)
- Nadine Grimm
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Language documentation and description; Computational linguistics; Mesoamerican languages
Adeleke, Lateef
he/him/his
PhD student in Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Nadine Grimm
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Language Documentation & Description; Natural Language Processing; African Languages
Alekseev, Danil
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PhD student in Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Ash Asudeh
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Asudeh, Ash
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Professor of Linguistics
- Office Location
- 439 Rush Rhees Library
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Logic, Language, and Computation; Cognitive Science
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Bei, Beicheng
she/her/hers
MS student in Computational Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Aaron White
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Large Language Models; Natural Language Processing; Semantics; Narrative Understanding; Creative Writing
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Carlson, Greg
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Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
Interests: Semantic Theory; Psycholinguistics; Discourse
Chaves, Daniel
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PhD student in Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Ash Asudeh
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Choi, Woo Jin
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PhD student in Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Aaron White
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Semantics; Natural Language Processing
Chun, Hannah
she/her/hers
MS student in Computational Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- C.M. Downey
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Natural Language Processing for Low-Resource Languages; Computational Linguistics
Coburn, Jeremy
he/him/his
Visiting Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- 508 Lattimore Hall
Interests: African Linguistics; Phonetics; Non-Pulmonic Consonants; Phonology; Tone; Field Linguistics; Language Endangerment and Revitalization
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Downey, C.M.
Assistant Professor of Linguistics & Data Science
- Office Location
- 507 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing (NLP); Low-Resource NLP; Language Documentation/Revitalization; Morphology; North American Languages
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Ersöyleyen, Elif Ebru
she/her/hers
PhD student in Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Ash Asudeh
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Formal Semantics; Logic; Syntax; Natural Language Metaphysics
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Grimm, Nadine
she/her/hers
James P. Wilmot Distinguished Associate Professor of Linguistics
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Director of Language Documentation and Description Program
Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab
- Office Location
- 509 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Language Documentation and Description; Typology; Linguistic Fieldwork; African Linguistics; Grammatical Tone; Grammar Writing; Language and Culture; Language and Cognition
Grimm, Scott
he/him/his
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Department Chair of Linguistics
Director of Quantitative Semantics Lab
- Office Location
- 512 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Semantics; Corpus-Based Approaches to Meaning; Linguistic Fieldwork; African Languages (Specialization in Gur Languages); Lexicography; Experimental Semantics; Technology for Fieldwork
Grove, Julian
he/him/his
Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Post-Doctoral Researcher, 2022-2025
- julian.grove@ufl.edu
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Type-Theoretic Approaches to Natural Language Semantics; Characterizing Dynamic Semantic Phenomena; Computational Semantics
Guo, Chen
she/her/hers
MS student in Computational Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Aaron White
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
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Harte, Francis
Events and Engagement Coordinator
- Office Location
- 503 Lattimore Hall
Hooda, Meghna
they/them/theirs
PhD student in Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Maya Abtahian
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computational linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Psycholinguistics
Hsu, Chia-Hsiang
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PhD student in Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Aaron White
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
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Karandikar, Aseema
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MS student in Computational Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Aaron White
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Natural Language Processing; Syntax and Semantics of Indo-Aryan Languages
Karlinsey, Abigail
she/her/hers
MA student in Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Maya Abtahian
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Sociolinguistics; linguistic diversity; linguistic discrimination; metalinguistic attitudes; phonetics/phonology
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Lee, Braden
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PhD student in Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Asia Pietraszko
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Syntax; Morphology; Semantics
Liu, Yixiang
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MS student in Computational Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Aaron White
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Natural Language Processing; Semantics
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Ma, Yizhen
she/her/hers
PhD student in Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Nadine Grimm
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
McDonough, Joyce M.
she/her/hers
Richard L. Turner Professor of Linguistics
Professor of Linguistics
- Office Location
- 505 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Phonetics; Phonology; Morphology; Laboratory Phonology; Dene (Athabaskan) Linguistics; Neural Coding of Vowels (w Laurel Carney)
Moon, Ellise
they/them/theirs
PhD student in Linguistics and Philosophy (MA Linguistics, 2020)
- Advisor(s)
- Scott Grimm
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Semantics; Philosophy of language; Abstraction; Countability
Moore, Sydney
she/her/hers
MS student in Computational Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Aaron White
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Computational Linguistics; Semantics; Psycholinguistics
Moroney, Mary
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Visiting Scholar
Visiting Assistant Professor, 2022-2026
- Office Location
- 511 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Semantics; Syntax; Definiteness; Quantification; Comparatives; Southeast Asian Languages; Fieldwork
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Okoh, Ifeoma
she/her/hers
PhD student in Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- C.M. Downey
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing
Owoyele, Oluwasegun Joseph
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PhD student in Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Nadine Grimm
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Phonology; Language Documentation and Description; Sociolinguistics
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Pietraszko, Asia
she/her/hers
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Director of Field Syntax Lab
- Office Location
- 510 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Syntax and Morphology; Clausal Architecture; Bantu Morphosyntax; Selection and Complementation; Syntactic Movement and Locality
Prince, Bryan C.
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Department Manager of Linguistics and CLS
- Office Location
- 503 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
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Rajendran Schmura, Suganya
she/her/hers
PhD student in Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Maya Abtahian
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Tamil heritage language maintenance; Language and identity; Code-mixing and translanguaging; Linguistic variation in Dravidian speech communities; Decolonial anthropological linguistics
Rodriguez, Vanessa
MA student in Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Maya Abtahian
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Rost, Jennifer
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MA student in Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Maya Abtahian
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Sociolinguistics; Gender and Language; Neopronouns; Gender-Neutral Language in Heavily-Gendered Languaged; Translation; Semantics
Runner, Jeffrey T.
he/him/his
Professor of Linguistics & Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Office Location
- 506 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface
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Schley, Elodie
PhD student in Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Maya Abtahian
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Semantics; Pragmatics; Morphology
Schneider, Laura
she/her/hers
MA student in Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Maya Abtahian
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Historical linguistics; language contact; phonology; morphology
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Wamsley, James C.
he/him/his
Associate Professor, Wenzhou Business College
Visiting Assistant Professor, 2023-2026
- Office Location
- 511 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Semantics; Pragmatics; Definiteness; Nominal Morphology; Tibeto-Burman languages; Fieldwork
Wang, Jiajia
she/her/hers
PhD student in Linguistics
- Advisor(s)
- Scott Grimm
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Semantics; Syntax; Phonology
White, Aaron
he/him/his
Stephen Biggar ’92 and Elizabeth Assaro ’92 Fellow in Data Science
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Director of Center for Language Sciences
Director of the FACTS.lab
- Office Location
- 511A Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics