Faculty and Postdoctoral Scholars
Bernat Bardagil
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Postdoctoral scholar, Department of Linguistics Email: bardagil@berkeley.edu Research interests: Case and agreement, grammatical relations, corpus linguistics, language documentation and revitalization, Amazonian languages |
Amy Rose Deal
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Associate Professor of Linguistics Email: ardeal@berkeley.edu Office: 1223 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Syntax, semantics, fieldwork, Nez Perce Fall 2019: Linguistics 220A |
Peter Jenks
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Associate 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 2019: Linguistics 121 |
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 2019: Linguistics 5, 290A |
Eve Sweetser
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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 2019: Linguistics 106, 123 |
Graduate students
Kenneth Baclawski Jr.
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Email: kbaclawski@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax, sociolinguistics, Southeast Asian and Chamic linguistics |
Madeline Bossi
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Email: madeline_bossi@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax and its interfaces, semantics, pragmatics, language documentation and revitalization |
Virginia Dawson
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Email: virginia.dawson@berkeley.edu Research interests: Semantics, syntax, morphology; language documentation; Tiwa (Tibeto-Burman) |
Emily Drummond
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Email: emily_drummond@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax, semantics, language variation and change, language documentation, Polynesian languages, Nukuoro |
Edwin Ko
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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
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Email: schuyler_laparle@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax and its interfaces, lexical semantics, pragmatics, information structure, metaphor, cognitive linguistics |
Tyler Lemon
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Email: tylerlemon@berkeley.edu Research interests: Morphology, syntax, phonology, typology, language variation, fieldwork |
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 |
Julia Eileen Nee
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Email: jnee@berkeley.edu Research interests: Language documentation and revitalization, syntax, semantics, Mesoamerican linguistics, language contact, Zapotec (Teotitlán del Valle) |
Zachary O'Hagan
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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
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Email: tessa_scott@berkeley.edu Research interests: syntax; semantics; morphosyntax; typology; fieldwork; East Africa; Bantu languages |