People in Syntax & Semantics
Charles J. Fillmore, Professor Emeritus
lexicon, semantics, syntax, text comprehension, English, Japanese
George P. Lakoff, Professor
Cognitive linguistics, especially the neural theory of thought and language.
Conceptual systems, conceptual metaphor, grammar and meaning.
The application of cognitive and neural linguistics to politics, literature, psychology, philosophy and mathematics
lakoff@berkeley.edu
Line Mikkelsen, Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor
syntax, semantics, morphology, Danish and other Germanic languages, Karuk and other languages of California, philosophy of language
mikkelsen@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
Eve E. Sweetser, Professor
semantics, syntax, historical linguistics, Celtic languages, speech act theory, metaphor theory, semantic change, grammaticalization, grammatical meaning, gesture
sweetser@berkeley.edu
1211 Dwinelle