Regular Faculty
Alice Gaby, Assistant Professor
Australian languages; language, culture, and cognition; language documentation and description; linguistic typology
agaby@berkeley.edu
Susanne Gahl, Assistant professor
Psycholinguistics; Corpus linguistics; usage-based effects on language and cognition; language production and comprehension.
Andrew Garrett, Professor
Indo-European languages, historical linguistics, language change, Yurok and other California Indian languages
(510) 643-7524
garrett@berkeley.edu
Gary B. Holland, Associate Professor
Indo-European linguistics, historical linguistics, history of linguistics, language typology
gholland@berkeley.edu
Larry M. Hyman, Professor
phonological theory, African languages - especially Niger-Congo
Languages: African languages, especially Bantu and other Niger-Congo
(510) 643-7619
hyman@berkeley.edu
George P. Lakoff, Professor
cognitive linguistics, especially the neural theory of language, conceptual systems, conceptual metaphor, syntax-semantics-pragmatics; also the application of cognitive linguistics to politics, literature, philosophy and mathematics
lakoff@berkeley.edu
Sam A. Mchombo, Associate Professor
syntax, African linguistic structures, Swahili
mchombo@berkeley.edu
Line Mikkelsen, Assistant Professor
syntax, semantics, morphology, Danish, philosophy of language
mikkelsen@berkeley.edu
Lynn Nichols, Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Advisor
The Lexicon & Syntax, Lexical Semantics, Typology, Southwestern Pueblo Languages, Korean, Hindi, Burmese
nich@berkeley.edu
Richard A. Rhodes, Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor
American Indian languages, grammatical theory, phonology and lexicology
rrhodes@berkeley.edu
Eve E. Sweetser, Professor
semantics, syntax, historical linguistics, Celtic languages, speech act theory, metaphor theory, semantic change, grammaticalization, grammatical meaning, gesture
sweetser@berkeley.edu
Emeritus Faculty
Charles J. Fillmore, Professor Emeritus
lexicon, semantics, syntax, text comprehension, English, Japanese
Leanne Hinton, Professor of the Graduate School
American Indian languages, sociolinguistics, language loss and language revival
Languages: Havasupai, California Indian languages
(510) 643-7621
hinton@berkeley.edu
Paul Kay, Professor Emeritus
color naming and perception, grammar, lexicon
Languages: English, French
(510) 666-2885
paulkay@berkeley.edu
ICSI
Ian Maddieson, Adjunct Professor Emeritus
phonetic and phonological universals; articulatory and acoustic phonetics
Languages: African, Austronesian, South-East Asian and Sino-Tibetan languages
Now at: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
James A. Matisoff, Professor Emeritus
Southeast Asian languages, especially Tibeto-Burman and Thai, Chinese, Japanese, field linguistics, Yiddish studies, historical semantics, psychosemantics, language typology, area linguistics
John J. Ohala, Professor Emeritus
experimental phonology and phonetics, historical phonology, ethological aspects of communication, speech technology
William S-Y Wang, Professor Emeritus
Language Engineering, Computational Linguistics, and Language & Evolution
wsywang@ee.cuhk.edu.hk
Now at: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Karl E. Zimmer, Professor Emeritus
Turkish Linguistics; Word Formation; History of Linguistics
karlz@berkeley.edu
Visiting Faculty
Wesley Y. Leonard, Visiting Lecturer
Language reclamation, endangered language theory, language contact and change, sociolinguistics, language policy
Languages: American Indian languages (esp. Miami); East Asian languages (esp. Japanese)
wyl@berkeley.edu
Affiliated Berkeley Faculty
William F. Hanks, Professor
Department of Anthropology: The organization and dynamics of routine language use, Shamanism, and colonial history of Yucatan.
Carla Hudson Kam, Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology: First and second language acquisition: In particular, I am interested in how these processes may constrain the form of languages, and how they might influence how languages change over time
Johanna Nichols, Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures: Historical linguistics; typology, including historical typology; linguistic geography and areal linguistics.
Languages: Chechen, Ingush, Russian
Dan I. Slobin, Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology: linguistics (cognitive, functional, typological), psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language and cognitive development, sign language, cross-cultural
Alan Timberlake, Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures: Descriptive grammar of Russian; chronicles.