People in Syntax & Semantics

Charles J. Fillmore, Professor Emeritus

lexicon, semantics, syntax, text comprehension, English, Japanese

Alice Gaby, Assistant Professor

Australian languages; language, culture, and cognition; language documentation and description; linguistic typology
agaby@berkeley.edu

George P. Lakoff, Professor

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

Sam A. Mchombo, Associate Professor

syntax, African linguistic structures, Swahili
mchombo@berkeley.edu

Line Mikkelsen, Assistant Professor

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

Johanna Nichols, Professor

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures: Historical linguistics; typology, including historical typology; linguistic geography and areal linguistics.
Languages: Chechen, Ingush, Russian

Lynn Nichols, Assistant Professor

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