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
Languages: Spanish, Finnish, Garifuna
ecibelli@berkeley.edu
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
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; cognitive linguistics; Athabaskan (esp. Hupa); minority and immigrant languages in Japan; language documentation; discourse analysis (esp. CDA).
Languages: Japanese, Portuguese, Hupa (Athabaskan; fieldwork), Chungli Ao (Tibeto-Burman; documentation work in Berkeley), Katsakati (Zaporoan; Peru), Norwegian
escamilla@berkeley.edu
Phonetics and phonology, phonological typology, fricative vowels and other turbulent sounds, the actuation of sound change, and language documentation (esp. phonetic)
Languages: Mandarin, Washo, Karuk, Kalaallisut
mf@berkeley.edu
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
Construction grammar and cognitive semantics. Polysemous clause combining constructions, focus particles.
Languages: Korean
jhong@berkeley.edu
Experimental phonetics, speech perception and production, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics
Languages: Korean, Spanish
sakang2@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
East Asian historical linguistics, syntax, morphology, phonological typology, second language acquisition and teaching
Languages: Korean, Chinese
kakim@berkeley.edu
Phonology, descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, lexicostatistics, language documentation
Languages: Choapan Zapotec, Coatec Zapotec, Karuk, Spanish
erinmkuhns@gmail.com
Evidentiality, Epistemic Modality, Viewpoint, tautologies, conditional constructions, idioms, Grammaticalization, (inter)subjectivity), Korean Grammar
Framework: Mental Spaces, Blending, Frames, Cognitive Grammar, Conceptual Metaphors, Construction Grammar, Cognitive Semantics
Languages: Korean (native), English (fluent), Frence (can read and write), Spanish (can read and write), Imbabura Quechua (fieldwork)
Subjective experiences such as identity and the perception of causality, their cognitive origins, and their reflection in language.
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, semantic change, grammaticalization, historical pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, style and wordcraft
Languages: English, Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Finnish, Dutch, Romance, Indo-European
Language documentation and description, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, typology.
Languages: French, Portuguese, Malagasy, Omagua, Karuk
syntax & morphology, agreement, relative clauses and clefts
Languages: Scottish Gaelic
csheil@berkeley.edu
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
I am generally interested in the sound side of linguistics. I like to work on languages that have large consonant inventories and a great deal of overt morphological material.
Languages: Russian, French, Imbabura Quichua, Spanish
sylak@berkeley.edu
Phonetics, psycholinguistics, phonological acquisition; how do people acquire, store, and process the sounds of language?
Languages: English, French, Imbabura Quichua
melinda.woodley@berkeley.edu
phonetics, phonology, historical linguistics, Chinese dialects, Sino-Tibetan.
Languages: Cantonese, Lizu, Tibetan, Spanish, Mandarin, Falam Lai