Primary Faculty

Maya Abtahian

Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath

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Associate Professor of Linguistics

Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics

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

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Asudeh, Ash

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Professor of Linguistics

Office Location
506 Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Logic, Language, and Computation; Cognitive Science

Jeremy Coburn

Coburn, Jeremy

he/him/his

Visiting Assistant Professor

Office Location
508 Lattimore Hall

Interests: African Linguistics; Phonetics; Non-Pulmonic Consonants; Phonology; Tone; Field Linguistics; Language Endangerment and Revitalization

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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

Nadine Grimm

Grimm, Nadine

she/her/hers

James P. Wilmot Distinguished Assistant Professor of Linguistics

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Director of Language Documentation and Description Program

Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab

Office Location
509 Lattimore Hall
Web Address
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Interests: Language Documentation and Description; Typology; Linguistic Fieldwork; African Linguistics; Grammatical Tone; Grammar Writing; Language and Culture; Language and Cognition

Scott Grimm

Grimm, Scott

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Associate Professor of Linguistics

Department Chair of Linguistics

Director of Quantitative Semantics Lab

Office Location
512 Lattimore Hall
Web Address
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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

Joyce McDonough

McDonough, Joyce M.

she/her/hers

Richard L. Turner Professor of Linguistics

Professor of Linguistics

Office Location
505 Lattimore Hall

Interests: Phonetics; Phonology; Morphology; Laboratory Phonology; Dene (Athabaskan) Linguistics; Neural Coding of Vowels (w Laurel Carney)

Mary Moroney

Moroney, Mary

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Visiting Assistant Professor

Office Location
511 Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Semantics; Syntax; Definiteness; Quantification; Comparatives; Southeast Asian Languages; Fieldwork

Asia Pietraszko

Pietraszko, Asia

she/her/hers

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Director of Syntax Lab

Office Location
510 Lattimore Hall
Web Address
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Interests: Syntax and Morphology; Clausal Architecture; Bantu Morphosyntax; Selection and Complementation; Syntactic Movement and Locality

Jeff Runner

Runner, Jeffrey T.

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Professor of Linguistics & Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface

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White, Aaron

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Associate Professor of Linguistics

Director of Center for Language Sciences

Directors of the FACTS.lab

Office Location
511A Lattimore Hall
Web Address
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Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics