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, documentation, and revitalization; Amazonian languages 2019-20: On sabbatical leave |
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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Associate Professor of Linguistics Email: levmichael@berkeley.edu Office: 1212 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Anthropological linguistics, language typology, Amazonian documentary, descriptive, and comparative linguistics, language contact, grammar and interaction, prosodic systems and verbal art, language endangerment and revitalization 2019-20: On sabbatical leave |
Line Mikkelsen
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Associate 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 Fall 2019: Linguistics 5, 290A |
Beth Piatote
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Associate Professor of Native American Studies Email: piatote@berkeley.edu Office: 582 Barrows 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 |
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
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Email: raksit@berkeley.edu Research interests: Language variation and change; phonetics; historical linguistics; tonogenesis; voice quality; language documentation and revitalization; Southeast Asian and Austroasiatic languages: Kuy (Katuic), Thro (Katuic), So Thavung (Vietic); Southern Ryukyuan languages: Yaeyaman, Yonaguni |
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 |
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) |
Zachary O'Hagan
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Email: zohagan@berkeley.edu Research interests: Caquinte (Arawak), Omagua (Tupí-Guaraní), Taushiro (isolate), and Omurano (isolate); language documentation, description, history and contact in Amazonia; historical linguistics; morphosyntax; semantics; information structure |