Shown below are deceased faculty colleagues in the Department of Linguistics [ Collapse all Expand all ].
Murray B. Emeneau (1904-2005)
- PhD Yale 1931
- Taught at Berkeley from 1940 to 1971 (in Classics and Linguistics)
- Chair, Graduate Group in Linguistics, 1947-1953, and Department of Linguistics, 1953-1957
- President, Linguistic Society of America, 1949
Selected publications
- "The vowels of the Badaga language" (1939)
- Kota Texts (1944-46)
- Studies in Vietnamese (Annamese) Grammar (1951)
- Kolami: A Dravidian Language (1955)
- "India as a linguistic area" (1956)
- Dravidian Etymological Dictionary (with T. Burrow, 1961, rev. ed. 1984)
- Sanskrit Sandhi and Exercises (1968)
- Toda Songs (1971)
- Language and Linguistic Areas (1980)
- Toda Grammar and Texts (1984)
- "Bloomfield and Pāṇini" (1988)
- Dravidian Studies (1994)
Memorals and obituaries
- UC Berkeley memorial (by Andrew Garrett and George Hart)
- Language (by William Bright, 2006)
Jesse O. Sawyer (1918-1986)
- PhD Berkeley 1959
- Taught at Berkeley from 1957 to 1978 (in Speech and Linguistics)
- Distinguished Teaching Award, 1962
- Founding director, Language Laboratory (now incorporated into the Berkeley Language Center), 1961-1978
Selected publications
- "The implications of Spanish /r/ and /rr/ in Wappo history" (1964)
- English-Wappo Vocabulary (1965)
- Yuki Vocabulary (with Alice Schlichter, 1984)
- Wappo Studies (1991)
Memorials and obituaries
- UC Berkeley memorial (by James A. Matisoff, William F. Shipley, and Karl E. Zimmer)
- Appreciation (by Alice Shepherd, 1991, in Wappo Studies)
Charles J. Fillmore (1929-2014)
- PhD Michigan 1961
- Taught at Berkeley from 1970 to 1994
- Chair, Department of Linguistics, 1979-1983
- President, Linguistic Society of America, 1991
Selected publications
- "The position of embedding transformations in a grammar" (1963)
- "The case for case" (1968)
- "An alternative to checklist theories of meaning" (1974)
- Lectures on Deixis (1975)
- "Frame semantics" (1982)
- "Frames and the semantics of understanding" (1985)
- "Regularity and idiomaticity in grammatical constructions" (with Paul Kay and Cathy O'Connor, 1988)
- "Starting where the dictionaries stop" (with Sue Atkins, 1994)
- "Grammatical constructions and linguistic generalizations: The 'What's X doing Y?' construction" (with Paul Kay, 1999)
Memorials and obituaries
- Berkeley Linguistics Memorial
- ACL Lifetime Achievement Award
- Computational Linguistics (by Dan Jurafsky, 2014)
- Language Log (by Paul Kay, 2014)
- San Francisco Chronicle (2014)
C. Douglas Chrétien (1904-1969)
- PhD Harvard 1932
- Taught at Berkeley from 1931 to 1969 (in Public Speaking, Classics, and Linguistics)
- Director, Linguistic Institute, 1951
Selected publications
- The Battle Book of the O'Donnells (1935)
- "Quantitative classification of Indo-European languages" (with A. L. Kroeber, 1937)
- "The quantitative method for determining linguistic relationships" (1943)
- The Dialect of the Sierra de Mariveles Negritos (1951)
- "The mathematical models of glottochronology" (1962)
- "Genetic linguistics and the probability model" (1966)
Memorials and obituaries
- UC Berkeley memorial (by Murray B. Emeneau, William B. Fretter, and Joel H. Hildebrand)
Yakov Malkiel (1914-1998)
- PhD Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Berlin, 1938
- Taught at Berkeley from 1942 to 1982 (in Spanish & Portuguese, Romance Philology, and Linguistics)
- Founding editor, Romance Philology, 1946-1983
- President, Linguistic Society of America, 1965
- Author of over 850 publications
Selected publications
- Das substantivierte Adjektiv im Französischen (1938)
- Development of the Latin Suffixes -antia and -entia in Romance Languages (1945)
- "Lexical polarization in Romance" (1951)
- Studies in the Reconstruction of Hispano-Latin Word Families (1954)
- "Linguistics as a genetic science" (1967)
- "The inflectional paradigm as an occasional determinant of sound change" (1968)
- "The classification of Romance languages" (1978)
- "Problems in the diachronic differentiation of near-homophones" (1979)
- Etymology (1993)
Memorials and obituaries
- UC Berkeley memorial (by Charles B. Faulhaber, Suzanne Fleischman, and Leanne Hinton)
- Language (by Steven N. Dworkin, 2004)
John J. Ohala (1941-2020)
- PhD UCLA 1969
- Taught at Berkeley from 1970 to 2004
- President, International Phonetic Association, 1990-1995
Selected publications
Full list of publications
- "A new photoelectric glottograph" (1966)
- "Monitoring soft-palate movements in speech" (1971)
- "Experimental historical phonology" (1974)
- "A mathematical model of speech aerodynamics" (1975)
- "Phonetic explanations for the development of tones" (with Jean-Marie Hombert and William G. Ewan, 1979)
- "The listener as a source of sound change" (1981)
- "The origin of sound patterns in vocal tract constraints" (1983)
- "Sound change is drawn from a pool of synchronic variation" (1989)
- "The phonetics of sound change" (1993)
- "Listeners' identification of speech sounds is influenced by adjacent 'restored' phonemes" (with Deborah Feder, 1994)
Memorials and obituaries
- Obituary in Journal of the IPA (by Keith Johnson)
Mary R. Haas (1910-1996)
- PhD Yale 1935
- Taught at Berkeley from 1943 to 1977 (in Oriental Languages and Linguistics)
- Chair, Department of Linguistics, 1957-1964
- President, Linguistic Society of America, 1963
Selected publications
- Tunica (1941)
- Phonetic Dictionary of the Thai Language (1947)
- Tunica Texts (1950)
- Tunica Dictionary (1953)
- "Algonkian-Ritwan: The end of a controversy" (1958)
- The Prehistory of Languages (1969)
- Language, Culture, and History (1978)
Memorials and obituaries
- Berkeley memorial (by Victor Golla, Leanne Hinton, Margaret Langdon, and William Shipley)
- Language (by Victor Golla and James A. Matisoff, 1997)
- Anthropological Linguistics (volume of essays and memories, 1997)
- New York Times (1996)
Madison S. Beeler (1910-1989)
- PhD Harvard 1936
- Taught at Berkeley from 1941 to 1977 (in German and Linguistics)
Selected publications
- The Venetic Language (1949)
- "The relation of Latin and Osco-Umbrian" (1952)
- "Saclan" (1955)
- "Northern Costanoan" (1961)
- "The interrelationships within Italic" (1966)
- The Ventureño Confesionario of José Señán, O.F.M. (1967)
- "Sibilant harmony in Chumash" (1970)
- "Nopṭinṭe Yokuts" (1973)
- "Interior Chumash" (with Kathryn Klar, 1977)
Memorials and obituaries
- UC Berkeley memorial (by Murray B. Emeneau, Gary B. Holland, Blake Lee Spahr, Frederic P. Tubach, and Yakov Malkiel)
- Romance Philology (by Yakov Malkiel, 1990)
Karl Zimmer (1927-2019)
- PhD Columbia 1963
- Taught at Berkeley from 1965 to 1991
- Chair, Department of Linguistics, 1974-1979, 1983-1986
Selected publications
Memorials and obituaries
- UC Berkeley memorial (by Dan I. Slobin, Larry M. Hyman, and Ronelle Alexander)
Gary B. Holland (1943-2019)
- PhD Berkeley 1980
- Taught at Berkeley from 1980 to 2017 (in Celtic, Scandinavian, and Linguistics)
Selected publications
- "On the origin of 3rd sg. -r in Old Norse" (1980)
- "Nominal sentences and the origin of absolute constructions in Indo-European" (1986)
- "The name of Achilles: A revised etymology" (1993)
- "Transitivity, causativity, and surface case in Old Norse" (1993)
- Rig Veda: A Metrically Restored Text (with Barend van Nooten, 1994)
- "Relativization and word order in Old Irish and Vedic Sanskrit" (1996)
- The Tale of Zalpa: Myth, Morality, and Coherence in a Hittite Narrative (with Marina Zorman, 2007)