Faculty, Staff, and Postdoctoral Scholars
Christine Beier
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Assistant Adjunct Professor of Linguistics Email: beiercm@berkeley.edu Office: 1223 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Language endangerment, documentation, and revitalization; Amazonian languages Fall 2016: Linguistics 154 |
Amy Rose Deal
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Assistant Professor of Linguistics Email: ardeal@berkeley.edu Office: 1223 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Syntax, semantics, fieldwork, Nez Perce 2016-17: On research leave |
Andrew Garrett
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Professor of Linguistics, Nadine M. Tang and Bruce L. Smith Professor of Cross-Cultural Social Sciences; Chair, Department of Linguistics Email: garrett@berkeley.edu Office: 1218 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Historical linguistics; Indo-European; Karuk, Yurok, and California Indian languages Fall 2016: Linguistics 130, 201 |
Larry M. Hyman
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Professor of Linguistics; Executive Director, France-Berkeley Fund Email: hyman@berkeley.edu Office: 1221 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Phonological theory, language typology, African languages, especially Bantu and other Niger-Congo Fall 2016: Linguistics 5, 24, 140 |
Peter Jenks
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Assistant Professor of Linguistics Email: jenks@berkeley.edu Office: 1217 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Formal and comparative syntax, semantics, and morphology, especially of Southeast Asian and African languages Fall 2016: Linguistics 220A, 290A |
Darya (Даша) Kavitskaya
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Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Email: dkavitskaya@berkeley.edu Office: 6219 Dwinelle Research and teaching: Slavic, Turkic, Uralic; phonology and phonetics, historical phonology Fall 2016: Linguistics 211B |
Lev Michael
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Associate Professor of Linguistics Email: levmichael@berkeley.edu Office: 1212 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Anthropological linguistics, language typology, Amazonian documentary, descriptive, and comparative linguistics, language contact, grammar and interaction, prosodic systems and verbal art, language endangerment and revitalization Fall 2016: Linguistics 240A, 245 |
Line Mikkelsen
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Associate Professor of Linguistics Email: mikkelsen@berkeley.edu Office: 1210 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Syntax, semantics, morphology, Danish and other Germanic languages, Karuk and other languages of California, philosophy of language Fall 2016: Linguistics 100 |
Richard A. Rhodes
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Associate Professor of Linguistics; Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies; Interim Director, Canadian Studies Program Email: rrhodes@berkeley.edu Office: 1214 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: American Indian languages, grammatical theory, phonology and lexicology Fall 2016: Linguistics 170 |
Konrad Rybka
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Postdoctoral scholar, Department of Linguistics |
Ronald Sprouse
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Information Systems Analyst Email: ronald@berkeley.edu Office: 49 Dwinelle Hall Portfolio: Programming related to speech production and perception research, including digital signal processing. Linux system administration and web application development for digital language archives and language documentation. |
Graduate students
Kenneth Baclawski Jr.
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Email: kbaclawski@berkeley.edu Office: 1312 Dwinelle Research interests: Syntax, sociolinguistics, Southeast Asian and Chamic linguistics Spring 2017 teaching: Linguistics 130 |
Nicholas Baier
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Email: nbbaier@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntactic theory; syntax-morphology interface; agreement; typology Spring 2017 teaching: Linguistics 115 |
Kayla Begay
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Assistant Professor of Native American Studies, Humboldt State University Email: kaylarae@berkeley.edu Research interests: Athabaskan languages, language contact, Native American languages of California, language description and documentation, tense and aspect systems |
Andrew Cheng
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Email: andrewcheng@berkeley.edu Research interests: Language documentation, experimental phonetics, sociolinguistics |
Emily Clem
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Email: eclem@berkeley.edu Office: 1312 Dwinelle Research interests: Syntax, semantics, morphology, language documentation, typology, areal linguistics; Amahuaca, Tswefap, Bulu Spring 2017 teaching: Linguistics 120 |
Virginia Dawson
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Email: virginia.dawson@berkeley.edu Research interests: Semantics, syntax, morphology; language documentation; Tiwa (Tibeto-Burman) Spring 2017 teaching: Linguistics 100 |
Erin Donnelly
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Email: edonnelly@berkeley.edu Office: 1305 Dwinelle Research interests: Sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, phonology, descriptive linguistics, language documentation Spring 2017 teaching: Linguistics R1B |
Matthew Faytak
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Email: mf@berkeley.edu Research interests: Phonological typology, the actuation of sound change, turbulent sounds, aerodynamics; language documentation and revitalization, lexicography |
Karee Garvin
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Email: karee_garvin@berkeley.edu Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, phonetics-phonology interface, language documentation |
Myriam Lapierre
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Email: myriam.lapierre@berkeley.edu Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, nasality, language documentation and revitalization, Amazonian languages (especially Jê languages) |
Tyler Lau
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Email: tylerlau@berkeley.edu Office: 1309 Dwinelle Research interests: Historical linguistics, language change, language documentation, Ryukyuan languages Spring 2017 teaching: Linguistics 100 |
Erik Hans Maier
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Email: erikhmaier@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax, semantics, morphology, fieldwork, language documentation and revitalization, verbal art, Karuk, Germanic languages |
Jonathan Manker
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Email: jtmanker@berkeley.edu Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, morphology, sound change, historical linguistics, language documentation, language revitalization, acoustics, speech perception, dialectology |
John T. M. Merrill
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Email: jtmm@berkeley.edu Research interests: Historical and comparative linguistics, Niger-Congo |
Julia Eileen Nee
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Email: jnee@berkeley.edu Office: 1312 Dwinelle Research interests: Language documentation, syntax, semantics, Mesoamerican linguistics, language contact, Zapotec (Teotitlán del Valle) Spring 2017 teaching: Linguistics 121 |
Kelsey Neely
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Email: kelsey.neely@berkeley.edu Research interests: Language documentation, Amazonian linguistics, morphosyntax, language contact. Yaminawa, Nahua (Yora), Yanomami, Máíhɨ̀kì |
Zachary O'Hagan
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Email: zohagan@berkeley.edu Research interests: Language documentation, description, history and contact (Amazonia); historical linguistics; morphosyntax; semantics; information structure Spring 2017 teaching: Linguistics 100 |
Nicholas Rolle
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Email: n.rolle@berkeley.edu Research interests: General: phonology, prosody/tone/accent, the phonology/morphosyntax interface, language description, areal typology, Nigerian languages and West Africa; Specific: dominance effects in prosody, clitics and post-syntactic movement, areal phonology of the Macro-Sudan Belt in Africa, metrical windows and accent assignment, serial verb constructions; Languages: Esan, Edo, Degema, Urhobo, Edoid, Kalabari, Ijoid, Agwara Kambari, Kainji, Niger-Congo, Niuean, Ese'eja Spring 2017 teaching: Linguistics 5 |
Ruth Rouvier
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Email: rrouvier@berkeley.edu Research interests: Historical linguistics, typology, morphology, language contact, areal linguistics |
Hannah Sande
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Email: sande570@berkeley.edu Office: 1305 Dwinelle Research interests: Phonology; morphology; the interfaces between syntax, morphology, and phonology; language documentation; computational tools for language documentation; typology; Kru languages; West Africa Spring 2017 teaching: Linguistics 115 |
Clare Sandy
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Email: csandy@berkeley.edu |
Katie Sardinha
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Email: katie.sardinha@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax-semantics interface; Language, cognition & culture; agentivity and causation; semantics of psych verbs and mental concepts; fieldwork methodology; Wakashan languages |
Tessa Scott
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Email: tessa_scott@berkeley.edu Research interests: syntax; semantics; morphosyntax; typology; fieldwork; East Africa; Bantu languages |
Amalia Horan Skilton
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Email: amalia.skilton@berkeley.edu Research interests: Tukanoan and other Northwest Amazonian languages, language documentation, historical linguistics, phonology, language contact, verbal art |
Tammy Stark
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Connecticut Email: tammystark@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax, historical linguistics, language description and documentation |