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
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
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
syntax, semantics, morphology, Danish and other Germanic languages, Karuk and other languages of California, philosophy of language
mikkelsen@berkeley.edu
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
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, Lecturers and Visiting Faculty
Michael J. Houser, Lecturer
syntax, semantics, verb phrase anaphora, situation aspect, pluractionality, language documentation and description
Languages: Spanish, German, Basque, Northern Paiute
mhouser@berkeley.edu
1223 Dwinelle Hall
Russell Lee-Goldman, Lecturer
syntax, semantics, pragmatics, language change; construction grammar, interaction and conversation, indexicality; East Asian languages
Languages: English, Japanese, Mandarin, Southeastern Pomo
rleegold@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.
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
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.
Linguists in other Departments
Ronelle Alexander, Department of Slavic Languages and LiteraturesAnn 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
Sam Mchombo, Department of African American Studies
Geoffrey Nunberg, School of Information
Irmengard Rauch, Department of German
Martin Schwartz, Department of Near Eastern Studies
Thomas Shannon, Department of German