Graduate Students
The Syntax-Morphology interface; Morphological Theory; Argument structure; Typology; Historical Linguistics; Native American languages (esp. Salishan); Language documentation and description
Languages: Salishan, German
nbbaier@berkeley.edu
Semiotics (primarily film and language). Within linguistics: semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, theoretical linguistics.
abratkievich@berkeley.edu
historical linguistics, sound change, semantic change, language documentation and description, variation, Tibeto-Burman, languages of Northeast India
Languages: Ao (Chungli & Mongsen), Lotha, German, Mandarin Chinese, Hmong Daw, Mong Leng, Iu-Mien, Somali
Historical Linguistics: Especially Language Contact and Historical Typology; Grammatical Gender: Bantu Anti Agreement Effects, Gender Hierarchies
Languages: Romance: Spanish; Germanic: Standard German, Plautdietsch, Gothic, Old Norse, Old Saxon, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch; Bantu: Abo (Bankon)
first_name_underscore_last_name@berkeley.edu
Syntax, morphology, language documentation and description.
Languages: Hupa (Athabaskan), Falam (Tibeto-Burman), Meithei (Tibeto-Burman), Spanish.
amycampbell@berkeley.edu
Historical linguistics (Indo-European, Tibeto-Burman, Dravidian), sound change, morphological change, dialectology and language contact
Languages: Sanskrit, Avestan, Hindi, Romani, Balochi, Albanian, Nuristani languages, Tulu
chundra@berkeley.edu
Statistical phylogenetics, Polynesian, statistical learning, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, natural language processing
wchang@berkeley.edu
Experimental phonetics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, bilingualism, language and cognition, color perception, categorization
Languages: Spanish, Finnish, Garifuna
Language documentation and description, Oceanic languages, linguistic typology and universals, serial verb constructions, tense and aspect systems, demonstratives and reference tracking in discourse
Languages: Saliba and Papitalai (Oceanic), Imbabura Quichua
jessck@berkeley.edu
Psycholinguistics, in particular the influence of syntactic context on sublexical processes such as morphology and phonetic variation.
Languages: Slavic languages: Russian, Old Church Slavonic, Polish. Also, Imbabura Quichua, Georgian, French, Nzadi
Pragmatics and cognitive linguistics, interactional sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, politeness studies, metaphor, construction grammar, Romance languages, Japanese
Languages: Romanian, Japanese, Spanish, French, German
oanadavidgsi@gmail.com
Historical linguistics, phonology, descriptive linguistics, language documentation
Languages: Choapan Zapotec, Spanish
edonnelly@berkeley.edu
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
Lexical semantics; causative constructions, Athabaskan (esp. Hupa); language documentation
Languages: Japanese, Portuguese, Hupa (Athabaskan; fieldwork), Chungli Ao (Tibeto-Burman; documentation work in Berkeley), Katsakati (Zaporoan; Peru), Norwegian
escamilla@berkeley.edu
Phonological typology, the actuation of sound change, turbulent sounds, aerodynamics; language documentation and revitalization, lexicography
Languages: Mandarin, French, Karuk, various Grassfields Bantu, Nez Perce, Kalaallisut
mf@berkeley.edu
Phonetics, speech perception, language documentation.
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Esperanto, Khmer, Maijiki, Muniche, Abo
finley@berkeley.edu
Phonetics, psycholinguistics, phonological acquisition; how do people acquire, store, and process the sounds of language?
Languages: English, French
melindafricke@berkeley.edu
Computational linguistics, cognition, case alignment, coreference and control, valence. Language documentation, historical reconstruction, typology.
jpgiroux@berkeley.edu
I'm interested in studying the role of language in conceptualization. Thus: linguistic relativity, categorization and its relation to concepts, various areas of psycholinguistics, conceptual metaphor
Languages: Latin, Ancient Greek, German, Spanish
matthew.goss@berkeley.edu
historical linguistics, linguistic geography, syntax, morphology, language documentation and description
Languages: Southeastern Pomo, Northern and Central Sierra Miwok, Czech
hjh@berkeley.edu
Historical linguistics, sound change, language contact, typology, comparative morphosyntax, language documentation
Languages: Moor, Yerisiam, Yaur, Umar (Cenderawasih Bay, Austronesian); Keuw (isolate); Duvle-Wano Pidgin; Indonesian and Papuan Malay; German and Yiddish; Romance languages; Russian; Falam Lai
kamholz@berkeley.edu
Experimental phonetics, speech perception and production, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics
Languages: Korean, Spanish
sakang2@berkeley.edu
East Asian historical linguistics, syntax, morphology, phonological typology, second language acquisition and teaching
Languages: Korean, Chinese
kakim@berkeley.edu
Phonetics, phonology, tone and prosody, morphosyntax, sentence-final particles in Pacific Asian languages, interface questions, grammaticalization, language documentation and description, oral narratives and their multi-modal structures
Languages: Sinitic (Cantonese, Middle and Old Chinese); Altaic (Monglic, Turkic); American languages; Xhosa; Portuguese
ermanh@berkeley.edu
Phonology and its interactions with morphology and syntax, historical linguistics, typology, language documentation and description, African languages
Languages: Laal (isolate), Boua (Adamawa), Boor (Chadic), Ju/'hoan and !Xuun (Ju), Abo (Bantu A42), Japanese, Corsican
florian.lionnet@berkeley.edu
Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Historical Linguistics, Language Documentation, Language Revitalization, Acoustics, Speech Perception, Dialectology
Languages: Han, Gwich'in (Dene / Athabascan), Abkhaz (Northwest Caucasian), Tyvan (Siberian Turkic), a variety of dead Indo-European languages, English
jtmanker@berkeley.edu
Subjective experiences such as identity and the perception of causality, their cognitive origins, and their reflection in language.
Language documentation, description, history and contact (Amazonia); historical linguistics; morphology; phonology; typology.
Languages: Omagua (Tupí-Guaraní); Matsigenka, Kakinte (Kampan Arawak); Omurano (unclassified).
zohagan@berkeley.edu
language contact, pragmatics; the Philippines and Puerto Rico; (post)colonialism
Languages: Cavite Chabacano (Philippine Creole Spanish), Tagalog, Spanish (Puerto Rican), German
marilola@berkeley.edu
Interfaces between pragmatics and morphosyntax, information structure and packaging, language contact, Balkan languages, Slavic languages
Languages: Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Albanian, Czech, Romani, German
pren@berkeley.edu
Historical linguistics, word order, discourse pragmatics, semantic change, grammaticalization, cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, style and wordcraft
Languages: Ancient Greek, Hebrew, Indo-European
Phonological and syntactic theory, syntax/phonology interface, pronouns, agreement, language description and documentation, languages of southern Nigeria
Languages: Esan (Ishan), Edo (Bini), Degema, Edoid family, Nigerian & West African, Niuean, Tongan, Polynesian family, English
n.rolle@berkeley.edu
Language documentation and description, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, typology.
Languages: French, Portuguese, Malagasy, Omagua, Karuk
syntax & morphology, agreement, relative clauses
Languages: Scottish Gaelic, Garifuna (Arawak)
Language documentation and revitalization, language and dialect contact, languages of California, Australian languages
Languages: Pacific Coast Athabaskan (Hupa, Wailaki, Tututni), Kawaiisu (Uto-Aztecan), Bilinarra and Gurindji (Pama-Nyungan)
justin.spence@berkeley.edu
language description and documentation, historical linguistics, syntax
Languages: Omagua, Yánesha, Garifuna, Karuk
tammystark@berkeley.edu
cognitive semantics and the relationship between language and thought: spatial and color domains, conceptual metaphor, and mental spaces; co-speech gesture; syntax and semantics of signed languages
Languages: ASL, Hebrew (beginning), Garifuna (Arawak); also French, LSF, and OLSF
elstickles@berkeley.edu
Phonetics-phonology interface; Phonological theory; Phonological typology; Phonetics; Cross-linguistically rare consonants; Sound change; Description and documentation of endangered languages; Languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America; Languages of the Caucasus.
Languages: Ditidaht (Southern Wakashan), Máíjɨki (Western Tukanoan), Imbabura Quichua, Chechen, Lak, Spanish, Russian, French
sylak@berkeley.edu