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 language.
Conceptual systems, conceptual metaphor, syntax-semantics-pragmatics.
The application of cognitive and neural linguistics to politics, literature, philosophy and mathematics
lakoff@berkeley.edu
Line Mikkelsen, Associate Professor
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