Syntax and Semantics

Peter Jenks

Associate Professor of Linguistics

PhD, Harvard

Syntax, semantics, phonology, fieldwork; Moro and other Niger-Congo languages; Thai, Mandarin, and other East and Southeast Asian languages

Phuong Khuu

Semantics, syntax, pragmatics, and cross-linguistic variation.

Edwin Ko

Alumnus

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

Alumna

Syntax and its interfaces, lexical semantics, pragmatics, information structure, metaphor, cognitive linguistics

Tyler Lee-Wynant

PhD Student

Tyler Lemon

PhD Candidate

Morphology, syntax, phonology, typology, language variation, fieldwork

Kang Franco Liu

PhD Student

Wendy L. A. López Márquez

PhD Candidate

Morphosyntax, historical linguistics, language documentation, Mesoamerican linguistics (especially Mixe-Zoquean languages: Highland Popoluca)

Erik Hans Maier

Alumnus

Syntax, semantics, morphology, fieldwork, language documentation and revitalization, verbal art, Karuk, Germanic languages

Line Mikkelsen

Professor of Linguistics

PhD, UC Santa Cruz

Syntax, semantics, morphology, Danish and other Germanic languages, Karuk and other languages of California, philosophy of language