Emeritus Faculty

Leanne Hinton

Professor Emerita of Linguistics

American Indian languages, endangered languages, language revitalizationRead more about Leanne Hinton

Larry M. Hyman

Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School; Director, France-Berkeley Fund

PhD, UCLA

Phonological theory, language typology, African languages, especially Bantu and other Niger-CongoRead more about Larry M. Hyman

Keith Johnson

Professor of the Graduate School

PhD, Ohio State University

Linguistic phonetics, psycholinguistics, neurophoneticsRead more about Keith Johnson

Paul Kay

Professor Emeritus of Linguistics

Color naming and perception, grammar, lexiconRead more about Paul Kay

George Lakoff

Professor Emeritus of Linguistics

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 mathematicsRead more about George Lakoff

Robin Lakoff

Professor Emerita of Linguistics

Pragmatics, sociolinguisticsRead more about Robin Lakoff

James A. Matisoff

Professor Emeritus of Linguistics

Southeast Asian languages, especially Tibeto-Burman and Thai, Chinese, Japanese, field linguistics, Yiddish studies, historical semantics, psychosemantics, language typology, area linguisticsRead more about James A. Matisoff

Richard A. Rhodes

Professor Emeritus of Linguistics

American Indian languages, grammatical theory, phonology and lexicologyRead more about Richard A. Rhodes

Eve Sweetser

Professor Emerita of Linguistics

Semantics, syntax, historical linguistics, Celtic languages, speech act theory, metaphor theory, semantic change, grammaticalization, grammatical meaning, gestureRead more about Eve Sweetser

William S-Y. Wang

Professor Emeritus of Linguistics; Chair Professor of Language and Cognitive Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Language engineering, computational linguistics, language & evolutionRead more about William S-Y. Wang