Regular Faculty

Susanne Gahl, Assistant Professor

Psycholinguistics; Corpus linguistics; usage-based effects on language and cognition; language production and comprehension.
gahl AT berkeley DOT edu

Andrew Garrett, Professor

Historical linguistics (language change and linguistic reconstruction), Indo-European languages, Yurok and other California Indian languages
garrett@berkeley.edu

Gary Holland, Associate Professor

Indo-European linguistics, historical linguistics, history of linguistics, language typology
Languages: Classical and Vedic Sanskrit, Avestan, Old Persian, Greek, Latin, Italic dialects, Hittite, Hieroglyphic Luwian, Gothic, Old Norse-Icelandic, Old English, Old Irish, Lithuanian, Old Church Slavic
gholland@berkeley.edu

Larry M. Hyman, Professor

phonological theory, African languages - especially Niger-Congo
Languages: African languages, especially Bantu and other Niger-Congo
hyman@berkeley.edu

Sharon Inkelas, Professor and Department Chair

Phonology, morphology, and their relationship
(510) 643-7615
inkelas@berkeley.edu

Peter Jenks, Assistant Professor

Syntax; semantics; tone
Languages: Southeast Asian languages, especially Thai; Niger-Congo languages, especially Moro
jenks@berkeley.edu
1217 Dwinelle

Keith Johnson, Professor

phonetics, psycholinguistics
(510) 643-7617
keithjohnson@berkeley.edu

George P. Lakoff, Professor

Cognitive linguistics, especially the neural theory of thought and language. Conceptual systems, conceptual metaphor, grammar and meaning. The application of cognitive and neural linguistics to politics, literature, psychology, philosophy and mathematics
lakoff@berkeley.edu

Lev Michael, Assistant Professor

Anthropological linguistics, documentation and description of Amazonian languages, grammar and interaction, prosodic systems and verbal art, language contact, language endangerment and revitalization
Languages: Aʔɨwa, Iquito, Máíhɨki, Matsigenka, Muniche, Nanti, Omagua, Záparo
levmichael@berkeley.edu
1212 Dwinelle Hall

Line Mikkelsen, Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor

syntax, semantics, morphology, Danish and other Germanic languages, Karuk and other languages of California, philosophy of language
mikkelsen@berkeley.edu

Terry Regier, Professor

language and thought

Richard A. Rhodes, Associate Professor

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
1211 Dwinelle

Charles J. Fillmore, Professor Emeritus

lexicon, semantics, syntax, text comprehension, English, Japanese

Leanne Hinton, Professor Emerita

American Indian languages, sociolinguistics, language loss and language revival
Languages: Havasupai, California Indian languages
(510) 219-4842
hinton@berkeley.edu
1224 Dwinelle

Paul Kay, Professor Emeritus

color naming and perception, grammar, lexicon
Languages: English, French
(510) 666-2885
paulkay@berkeley.edu
ICSI

Robin T. Lakoff, Professor Emerita

pragmatics, sociolinguistics
rlakoff@berkeley.edu

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

Deborah W Anderson, Researcher

dwanders@berkeley.edu

Patrick Boudreault, Lecturer

9257263422
pboudreault@berkeley.edu
Dwinelle Hall 218

Sarah Cutfield, Lecturer

s.cutfield@berkeley.edu
1228 Dwinelle

Jonah I Katz, Visiting Assistant Professor

katzlinguist@gmail.com

Ludovica Serratrice, Research Associate

ludovica@berkeley.edu

Rose Wilkerson, Visiting Scholar & Lecturer

rosewilkerson@berkeley.edu
#1218 Dwinelle Hall

William F. Hanks, Professor

Department of Anthropology: The organization and dynamics of routine language use, Shamanism, and colonial history of Yucatan.

Darya Даша Kavitskaya, Assistant Professor

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Slavic, Turkic, Uralic; phonology and phonetics, historical phonology
Languages: Russian, Serbian, Czech, Crimean Tatar, Tundra Nenets
dkavitskaya@berkeley.edu
6219 Dwinelle

Mairi McLaughlin, Assistant Professor

Department of French: French linguistics, Romance linguistics, syntactic change, language contact, translation studies, language and new media, énonciation
Languages: French, Italian, German, Latin
mclaughlin@berkeley.edu

Johanna Nichols, Professor Emeritus

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures: Historical linguistics; typology, including historical typology; linguistic geography and areal linguistics.
Languages: Chechen, Ingush, Russian

Geoffrey D. Nunberg, Adjunct Professor

nunberg@berkeley.edu

Dan I. Slobin, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Linguistics

linguistics (cognitive, functional, typological), psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language and cognitive development, sign language, cross-cultural
Languages: German, Dutch, Yiddish, Russian, Spanish, French, Turkish
slobin@berkeley.edu

Alan Timberlake, Professor Emeritus

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures: Descriptive grammar of Russian; chronicles.