Primary Faculty
Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath
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Associate Professor of Linguistics
Director of Graduate Studies
Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab
- Office Location
- 514 Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Sociolinguistics; Language Variation and Change; Language Contact; Language Shift
Asudeh, Ash
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Professor of Linguistics
- Office Location
- 439 Rush Rhees Library
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Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Logic, Language, and Computation; Cognitive Science
Carlson, Greg
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Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
Interests: Semantic Theory; Psycholinguistics; Discourse
Coburn, Jeremy
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Visiting Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- 508 Lattimore Hall
Interests: African Linguistics; Phonetics; Non-Pulmonic Consonants; Phonology; Tone; Field Linguistics; Language Endangerment and Revitalization
Downey, C.M.
Assistant Professor of Linguistics & Data Science
- Office Location
- 507 Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing (NLP); Low-Resource NLP; Language Documentation/Revitalization; Morphology; North American Languages
Grimm, Nadine
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James P. Wilmot Distinguished Associate Professor of Linguistics
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Director of Language Documentation and Description Program
Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab
- Office Location
- 509 Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Language Documentation and Description; Typology; Linguistic Fieldwork; African Linguistics; Grammatical Tone; Grammar Writing; Language and Culture; Language and Cognition
Grimm, Scott
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Associate Professor of Linguistics
Department Chair of Linguistics
Director of Quantitative Semantics Lab
- Office Location
- 512 Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Semantics; Corpus-Based Approaches to Meaning; Linguistic Fieldwork; African Languages (Specialization in Gur Languages); Lexicography; Experimental Semantics; Technology for Fieldwork
McDonough, Joyce M.
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Richard L. Turner Professor of Linguistics
Professor of Linguistics
- Office Location
- 505 Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Phonetics; Phonology; Morphology; Laboratory Phonology; Dene (Athabaskan) Linguistics; Neural Coding of Vowels (w Laurel Carney)
Pietraszko, Asia
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Associate Professor of Linguistics
Director of Field Syntax Lab
- Office Location
- 510 Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Syntax and Morphology; Clausal Architecture; Bantu Morphosyntax; Selection and Complementation; Syntactic Movement and Locality
Runner, Jeffrey T.
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Professor of Linguistics & Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Office Location
- 506 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface
White, Aaron
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Stephen Biggar ’92 and Elizabeth Assaro ’92 Fellow in Data Science
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Director of Center for Language Sciences
Director of the FACTS.lab
- Office Location
- 511A Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics