Faculty and Postdoctoral Scholars
Bernat Bardagil
 |
Postdoctoral scholar, Department of Linguistics Email: bardagil@berkeley.edu Research interests: Case and agreement, grammatical relations, corpus linguistics, language documentation and revitalization, Amazonian languages |
Isaac L. Bleaman
 |
Assistant Professor of Linguistics Email: bleaman@berkeley.edu Office: 1216 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Sociolinguistics, language variation and change, sociophonetics, sociosyntax, corpus methods, language contact, multilingualism, language planning, language and ethnicity, Yiddish, Jewish language varieties Fall 2020: Linguistics 150, 250A |
Amy Rose Deal
 |
Associate Professor of Linguistics Email: ardeal@berkeley.edu Office: 1223 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Syntax, semantics, fieldwork, Nez Perce Fall 2020: Not teaching |
Peter Jenks
 |
Associate Professor of Linguistics Email: jenks@berkeley.edu Office: 1217 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Syntax, semantics, phonology, fieldwork; Moro and other Niger-Congo languages; Thai, Mandarin, and other East and Southeast Asian languages Fall 2020: Linguistics 100, 220A |
Line Mikkelsen
 |
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 2020: Linguistics 200, 251, 375 |
Prerna Nadathur
 |
Lecturer in Linguistics Email: pnadathur@berkeley.edu Office: N/A Research and teaching: Formal and experimental semantics and pragmatics, lexical semantics, inference, causal reasoning Fall 2020: Linguistics 121, 181, 290B |
Eve Sweetser
 |
Professor of Linguistics; Director, Celtic Studies Program Email: sweetser@berkeley.edu Office: 1211 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Semantics, syntax, historical linguistics, Celtic languages, speech act theory, metaphor theory, semantic change, grammaticalization, grammatical meaning, gesture Fall 2020: Linguistics 201, 205 |
Graduate students
Madeline Bossi
 |
Email: madeline_bossi@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax and its interfaces, semantics, pragmatics, language documentation and revitalization |
Maksymilian Dabkowski
 |
Email: dabkowski@berkeley.edu Research interests: Phonology and its interfaces, semantics, language documentation, language revitalization, logic, psycholinguistics |
Emily Drummond
 |
Email: emily_drummond@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax, semantics, language variation and change, language documentation, Polynesian languages, Nukuoro |
Rebecca Jarvis
 |
Pronouns: she, her, hers Email: rjarvis@berkeley.edu Research interests: Semantics, syntax, pragmatics, language variation and change |
Edwin Ko
 |
Email: eddersko@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax, semantics, morphosyntax, language variation and change, historical and comparative linguistics, language documentation and revitalization, Alaska Native and Native American languages (especially Aleut, Crow, Hidatsa, and Northern Pomo) |
Schuyler Laparle
 |
Email: schuyler_laparle@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax and its interfaces, lexical semantics, pragmatics, information structure, metaphor, cognitive linguistics |
Tyler Lemon
 |
Email: tylerlemon@berkeley.edu Research interests: Morphology, syntax, phonology, typology, language variation, fieldwork |
Samuel Liff
 |
Email: liff@berkeley.edu Research interests: Computational linguistics, experimental methods, syntax, language attitudes, language varieties of the Jewish diaspora (especially Yiddish) |
Erik Hans Maier
 |
Email: erikhmaier@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax, semantics, morphology, fieldwork, language documentation and revitalization, verbal art, Karuk, Germanic languages |
Julia Eileen Nee
 |
Email: jnee@berkeley.edu Research interests: Language documentation and revitalization, syntax, semantics, Mesoamerican linguistics, language contact, Zapotec (Teotitlán del Valle) |
Zachary O'Hagan
 |
Email: zohagan@berkeley.edu Research interests: Caquinte (Arawak), Omagua (Tupí-Guaraní), Taushiro (isolate), and Omurano (isolate); language documentation, description, history and contact in Amazonia; historical linguistics; morphosyntax; semantics; information structure |
Tessa Scott
 |
Email: tessa_scott@berkeley.edu Research interests: syntax; semantics; morphosyntax; typology; fieldwork; East Africa; Bantu languages |
Mingyu Yuan
 |
Email: mingyu@berkeley.edu Pronouns: she/her/hers Research interests: Syntax, speech perception/production, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics |