Akinbiyi M. Akinlabi, Associate Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Ibadan
Phonology; tone; intonation in tone languages; Benue Congo phonology; Yoruba
Mark Baker, Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Comparative syntax; linguistic universals; semantic roles; Amerindian and African languages
Maria Bittner, Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Crosslinguistic semantics; pragmatics; ergativity; Eskimo and other exotic languages
Jose Camacho, Assistant Professor of Linguistics/Spanish and Portuguese, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Southern California
Spanish syntax; second-language acquisition; language contact; Amazonian linguistics
Veneeta Dayal, Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Syntax-semantics interface; semantics; South-Asian linguistics
Viviane M. Déprez, Associate Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Syntactic theory; Romance linguistics; language acquisition; Creole syntax
Jane Grimshaw, Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Syntactic theory; the lexicon; language acquisition; cognitive science
Alan S. Prince, Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Phonology; prosody; prosodic morphology; optimality theory; cognitive science
Kenneth Safir, Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Syntactic theory; Germanic linguistics; Romance linguistics; history of linguistics; learnability theory
Roger Schwarzschild, Associate Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Semantics; pragmatics; intonation
Bruce Tesar, Associate Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Colorado
Learnability and acquisition; computational linguistics; cognitive science; phonology
Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty
Young-mee Yu Cho, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Culture, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Phonology; morphology; Korean linguistics; synchronic variation; diachrony
Matthew Stone, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, FAS-NB/RuCCS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Natural-language generation; conversational dialogue agents; knowledge representation and logic programming
Karin Stromswold, Associate Professor of Psychology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.D., Harvard
Language acquisition; cognitive and neural bases of language; functional neuroimaging
