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

Historical linguistics (language change and linguistic reconstruction), Indo-European languages, Yurok and other California Indian languages
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

Sharon Inkelas, Professor and Department Chair

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

Keith Johnson, Professor

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

George P. Lakoff, Professor

Cognitive linguistics, especially the neural theory of language. Conceptual systems, conceptual metaphor, syntax-semantics-pragmatics. The application of cognitive and neural linguistics to politics, literature, philosophy and mathematics
lakoff@berkeley.edu

Robin T. Lakoff, Professor

pragmatics, sociolinguistics
rlakoff@berkeley.edu

Sam A. Mchombo, Associate Professor

syntax, African linguistic structures, Swahili
mchombo@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: Nanti, Iquito, Omagua
levmichael@berkeley.edu
1212 Dwinelle Hall

Line Mikkelsen, Assistant Professor

syntax, semantics, morphology, Danish, philosophy of language
mikkelsen@berkeley.edu

Lynn Nichols, Assistant Professor

The Lexicon & Syntax, Lexical Semantics, Southwestern Pueblo Languages, Korean, Hindi, Burmese
nich@berkeley.edu

Terry Regier, Associate Professor

language and thought
terry.regier@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

William F Weigel, Visiting Lecturer

Language revitalization and documentation, grammatical relations, Yokuts, Wiyot, history of Yiddish
510-621-7801
ling5weigel@gmail.com

Emeritus Faculty

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

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

Researchers and Lecturers

William F Weigel, Visiting Lecturer

Language revitalization and documentation, grammatical relations, Yokuts, Wiyot, history of Yiddish
510-621-7801
ling5weigel@gmail.com

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, Associate 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 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

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

Linguists in other Departments (list in progress)

Ronelle Alexander, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Ann Banfield, Department of English
Patricia Baquedano-Lopez, School of Education
Charles Briggs, Department of Anthropology
Melinda Chen, Department of Gender and Women's Studies
Kristin Hanson, Department of English
Yoko Hasegawa, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Marti Hearst, School of Information
Dan Klein, Computer Science Division, College of Engineering
Claire Kramsch, Department of German
Mairi McLaughlin, Department of French
Geoffrey Nunberg, School of Information
Irmengard Rauch, Department of German
Martin Schwartz, Department of Near Eastern Studies
Thomas Shannon, Department of German