Leanne Hinton
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Professor Emerita of Linguistics Email: lhinton@berkeley.edu Research: American Indian languages, endangered languages, language revitalization |
Paul Kay
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Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Email: paulkay@berkeley.edu Research: Color naming and perception, grammar, lexicon |
George Lakoff
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Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Email: lakoff@berkeley.edu Research: Cognitive linguistics, especially the neural theory of thought and language; conceptual systems, conceptual metaphor, grammar and meaning; the application of cognitive and neural linguistics to politics, literature, psychology, philosophy and mathematics |
Robin Lakoff
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Professor Emerita of Linguistics Email: rlakoff@berkeley.edu Research: Pragmatics, sociolinguistics |
Ian Maddieson
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Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Email: ianm@berkeley.edu Research: Phonetic and phonological universals; articulatory and acoustic phonetics |
James A. Matisoff
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Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Email: matisoff@berkeley.edu Research: Southeast Asian languages, especially Tibeto-Burman and Thai, Chinese, Japanese, field linguistics, Yiddish studies, historical semantics, psychosemantics, language typology, area linguistics |
Johanna Nichols
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Professor Emerita of Slavic Languages and Literatures Email: johanna@berkeley.edu Research: Historical linguistics; typology, including historical typology; linguistic geography and areal linguistics. Chechen, Ingush, Russian |
Richard A. Rhodes
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Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Email: rrhodes@berkeley.edu Research: American Indian languages, grammatical theory, phonology and lexicology |
Dan Slobin
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Professor Emeritus of Psychology |
Alan Timberlake
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Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Director, Institute of East Central Europe, Columbia University Email: at2205@columbia.edu Research: Synchronic and historical Slavic and Russian linguistics; descriptive grammar of Russian; medieval Slavic literature, language and culture; Czech literature. |
William S-Y. Wang
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Professor Emeritus of Linguistics; Chair Professor of Language and Cognitive Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Email: shiyuan.w.wang@polyu.edu.hk Research: Language engineering, computational linguistics, language & evolution |