Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy
Certificate Program Offered: Language Learning and Teaching
Director of the Graduate Program: Professor Viviane Déprez, 18 Seminary Place, College Avenue Campus (848-932-0447)
Website: http://ling.rutgers.edu/graduate-mainmenu-138
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Akinbiyi M. Akinlabi, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Ibadan (Nigeria)
Phonology; morphology; Optimality Theory; West African linguistics (esp. Benue-Congo languages)
Mark Baker, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Comparative syntax; linguistic universals; semantic roles; Amerindian and African languages
Maria Bittner, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Cross-linguistic semantics and pragmatics; discourse dynamics; Kalaallisut and other exotic languages
José
Camacho, Professor of Linguistics/Spanish and Portuguese, SAS; Ph.D., Southern California
Spanish syntax; second language acquisition; language contact; Amazonian linguistics
Simon Charlow, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., New York
Semantics; syntax-semantics interface; scope and quantification
Veneeta Dayal, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Semantics; syntax-semantics interface; Hindi and South Asian linguistics
Paul de Lacy, Associate Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts (Amherst)
Phonology; morphology; field methods
Viviane M. Déprez, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Comparative syntax; syntax-semantics interface; Romance and Creole languages; second language acquisition
Jane Grimshaw, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts (Amherst)
Syntactic theory; lexical representation; Optimality Theory; cognitive science
Adam Jardine, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, SAS;
Ph.D., Delaware
Phonology; learning theory; computational linguistics; language documentation; typology; mathematical linguistics
Alan S. Prince, Board of Governors Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Phonology; prosody; prosodic morphology; Optimality Theory; cognitive science
Kenneth Safir, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Syntactic theory; binding theory; Germanic and African linguistics; evolution of language; Romance linguistics; history of linguistics; learnability theory
Kristen Syrett, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, SAS/RuCCS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Language acquisition; psycholinguistics; semantics; syntax-semantics interface; pragmatics
Bruce Tesar, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Colorado (Boulder)
Learnability and acquisition; computational linguistics; optimality theory; cognitive science; phonology
Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty
Young-mee Yu Cho, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Culture, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Korean language and linguistics; phonology; morphology
Anthony Gillies, Associate Professor of Philosophy, SAS;
Ph.D., Arizona
Epistemology; beliefs; defeasible reasoning; philosophical
logic; decision/game theory; modality; conditionals
Julien Musolino, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D. Maryland (College Park)
Cognitive psychology; psycholinguisticsLiliana Sánchez, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, SAS; Ph.D, Southern California
Theories of bilingual/second language acquisition; syntactic theory (Spanish, Quechua)
Matthew Stone, Associate Professor of Computer Science, SAS/RuCCS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Natural language generation; computational semantics; knowledge representation; conversational agents; logic programming
Karin Stromswold, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.D., Harvard
Language acquisition; cognitive and neural bases of language; neuroimaging; genetics of language
