Graduate Students
Morphology, cognitive linguistics, semantics, construction grammar.
Languages: Russian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
zhenya@berkeley.edu
language documentation and description, theoretical phonology & syntax, variation, typology, acoustic phonetics, morphology
Languages: German, Mandarin Chinese, Hmong Daw, Mong Leng, Iu-Mien, Somali, Chungli Ao
Historical Linguistics, Typology, Historical Typology
Languages: English, Spanish, German
Syntax, morphology, language documentation and description.
Languages: Hupa (Athabaskan), Falam (Tibeto-Burman), Meithei (Tibeto-Burman), Spanish.
amycampbell@berkeley.edu
Language contact, areal typology, historical linguistics, dialectology, social issues in language, phonetics, phonology.
Languages: Hindi-Urdu, Sanskrit, Tulu, Romani, Balochi, Albanian
chundra@berkeley.edu
Phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, heritage languages, bilingualism, language attrition, language contact, language documentation
Languages: Korean, Spanish, Burmese, Mandarin Chinese, Southeastern Pomo
cbchang@berkeley.edu
Experimental phonetics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, bilingualism
Languages: Spanish, Finnish
ecibelli@berkeley.edu
Language documentation and description, Oceanic and Papuan languages, linguistic typology and universals, demonstratives and reference tracking in discourse
Languages: Saliba, hopefully soon Papitalai
jessck@berkeley.edu
Things I can do: Phonetics, phonology (including tones, when they are well-behaved), and syntax (largely case-assignment and agreement).
Things I am learning to do: Quantitative analysis of experimental linguistics.
Things I someday want to do: Psycholinguistics.
Languages: Slavic languages: Russian, Old Church Slavonic. Also, Imbabura Quichua, Teochew, Georgian, French, Nzadi
cpccohen@berkeley.edu
Language documentation and description; African languages; syntax; semantics; morphology
Languages: Pulaar (Atlantic), Badiaranke (Atlantic), Bamana (Mande), Swahili, Italian, French, Hebrew
Bantu linguistics, Morphology, Tense/Aspect/Mood Semantics and Pragmatics, TAM in Discourse
Languages: Totela (Zambia and Namibia), Oshiwambo (Namibia), Nzadi (DRC), Shekgalagari (Botswana), German
Lexical semantics, computational and corpus linguistics, construction grammar, historical linguistics, Indo-European
Languages: Spanish, Falam, Ancient Greek, Vedic Sanskrit, Avestan, Very Dead Germanic languages
infinity@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU
Native languages of California; minority and immigrant languages in Japan; language documentation; discourse analysis; issues of language, power, privilege and prestige; Zaparoan.
Languages: Japanese, Hupa (Athabaskan; fieldwork), Chungli Ao (Tibeto-Burman; documentation work carried out in Berkeley), Andoa (Zaporoan; Peru), Norwegian
escamilla@berkeley.edu
Sociolinguistics of endangered language loss and revitalization, phonology, heritage language acquisition
hayneser@berkeley.edu
I am primarily interested in syntax (particularly Null Complement Anaphora) and the history and geography of languages. I am also committed to language documentation and description, and have a special interest in the languages of California.
Languages: Southeastern Pomo, Northern and Central Sierra Miwok, Czech
hjh@berkeley.edu
Semantics, syntax, acquisition of syntax and semantics, cognitive linguistics, construction grammar.
Languages: Korean
jhong@berkeley.edu
syntax, semantics, verb phrase anaphora, situation aspect, pluractionality, language documentation and description
Languages: Spanish, German, Basque, Northern Paiute
mhouser@berkeley.edu
Experimental phonetics, speech perception and production, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics
Languages: Korean, Spanish
sakang2@berkeley.edu
Cognitive linguistics; metaphor; verbal art / poetics; language consciousness and acquisition; interfaces of linguistics and psychology.
Languages: English, French, German, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian
laura.kassner@berkeley.edu
phonetics, psycholinguistics, speech perception, phonetic basis of sound change, cross-linguistic variations in speech production and speech perception, exemplar-based memory in phonetic categorization, language acquisition, language revitalization
Languages: Japanese
kataoka@berkeley.edu
Language acquisition, perception, change, classification, learning, & memory
Languages: Spanish, Russian, Southeastern Pomo
skatseff@berkeley.edu
Viewpoint related phenomena (Subject asymmetry in Evidential marking systems, intentionality, etc.), Cognitive Semantics (Mental Spaces, Blending, Frames, Conceptual Metaphor), Construction Grammar (tautologies, idioms, conditional constructions etc.), Grammaticalization ((inter)subjectivity), Korean Grammar
Languages: Korean
kwoniks@berkeley.edu
semantics (lexical and compositional), pragmatics and interaction, syntax and construction grammar, language change; East Asian Languages
Languages: English, Japanese, Mandarin, Southeastern Pomo
rleegold@berkeley.edu
historical linguistics, typology, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, language contact and language change, historical pragmatics, endangered/minority languages, language revitalization and maintenance
Languages: Romance (especially French, Gascon, Catalan, and Spanish)
nem8@berkeley.edu
Subjective experiences such as identity and the perception of causality, their cognitive origins, and their reflection in language.
phonology, morphology, verbal inflection and paradigm uniformity.
Languages: Totonaco and Spanish
Language and gesture, psycholinguistics, linguistic anthropology, cognitive-functional linguistics
Languages: Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin, Thai, Korean, French, German, Huave
Interfaces between pragmatics and morphosyntax, information structure and packaging, language contact, Balkan languages, Slavic languages
Languages: Macedonian, Albanian, Romanian, Russian, Romani, German, Japanese
pren@berkeley.edu
language documentation and description, typology and universals, language contact and change, syntax, Austronesian
Languages: French, Arabic (MSA/Egyptian/Palestinian), Indonesian, Javanese, Vietnamese, Chungli Ao (Tibeto-Burman), Kawaiisu (Uto-Aztecan), Chru (Chamic)
hpritchett@berkeley.edu
Historical linguistics, semantic change, grammaticalization, historical pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, style and wordcraft
Languages: English, Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Finnish, Dutch, Romance, Indo-European
Language revival & revitalization; language documentation; language rights; anthropological linguistics; historical linguistics & language reconstruction
Languages: Portuguese, Portunhol (Portuñol), Korean, Hebrew, Xhosa/Zulu
vlroderick@berkeley.edu
Language documentation and revitalization, Australian languages, languages of California
Languages: Bilinarra and Gurindji (Pama-Nyungan), Hupa (Athabaskan)
justins@berkeley.edu
Cognitive-functional linguistics, particularly spatiotemporal metaphors and the gestures that go with them; linguistics of signed languages; cross-modal cognition and bilingualism; pragmatics; discourse analysis
Languages: English, ASL, some French and Spanish, and a dash of Old English
elstickles@berkeley.edu
Morphology, phonetics, phonology, NE Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) languages, prosody, affix ordering
Languages: Russian, French, Lak, Imbabura Quichua, Latin
sylak@berkeley.edu
syntax, semantics, pragmatics, language documentation, language change and variation
Languages: Iranian (Farsi, Zoroastrian Dari), Numic (Northern Paiute), Germanic (English, Danish)
mtoosarvandani@berkeley.edu
cognitive linguistics; gesture studies; political discourse; media formats and cognition
Languages: English, Italian, German
elisabethwehling@berkeley.edu
Phonetics, psycholinguistics, phonological acquisition; how do people acquire, store, and process the sounds of language?
Languages: English, French, a smattering of Russian, German, and ASL
melinda.woodley@berkeley.edu
Corpus phonetics, experimental phonetics, Chinese syntax and semantics, heritage language acquisition.
Languages: Mandarin Chinese, Shanghainese, Cantonese, Southeastern Pomo
yaoyao@berkeley.edu
phonetics, phonology, historical linguistics, Chinese dialects, Sino-Tibetan.
Languages: Cantonese, Lizu, Tibetan, Spanish, Mandarin, Falam Lai