Faculty
Christine Beier
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Assistant Adjunct Professor of Linguistics Email: beiercm@berkeley.edu Office: 1224 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Language endangerment, vitality, and revitalization; language documentation and description; Amazonian languages |
Andrew Garrett
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Professor of Linguistics, Nadine M. Tang and Bruce L. Smith Professor of Cross-Cultural Social Sciences |
Leanne Hinton
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Professor Emerita of Linguistics Email: lhinton@berkeley.edu Research: American Indian languages, endangered languages, language revitalization |
Lev Michael
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Professor of Linguistics Email: levmichael@berkeley.edu Office: 1212 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Anthropological linguistics, typology, documentation and description of Amazonian languages, South American historical and contact linguistics, language revitalization |
Line Mikkelsen
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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 |
Zachary O'Hagan
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Postdoctoral Scholar, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, Department of Linguistics |
Beth Piatote
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Associate Professor of Native American Studies Email: piatote@berkeley.edu Office: 582 Social Science Building Research and teaching: Native American literature, history, law and culture; Nez Perce texts |
Graduate students
Madeline Bossi
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Email: madeline_bossi@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax and its interfaces, semantics, pragmatics, language documentation and revitalization |
Maksymilian Dabkowski
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Email: dabkowski@berkeley.edu Research interests: Phonology and its interfaces, semantics, language documentation, language revitalization, logic, psycholinguistics |
Dmetri Hayes
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Email: dmetri@berkeley.edu Pronouns: he, him, his Research interests: Adult second language learning, language revitalization, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics |
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) |
Myriam Lapierre
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Email: myriam.lapierre@berkeley.edu Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, nasality, language documentation and revitalization, Amazonian languages (especially Jê languages) |
Raksit Tyler Lau-Preechathammarach
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Email: raksit@berkeley.edu Research interests: Sound change, experimental phonetics, tonogenesis, perception-production link, documentation & revitalization, Austroasiatic languages, Ryukyuan languages |
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 |
Tzintia Montano Ramirez
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Pronouns: she, her, hers Email: cynthia.montano@berkeley.edu Research interests: Otomanguean languages, especially Mixtec of Puebla |
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) |