Faculty

Lori Altmann, Ph.D.
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Lori Altmann (Ph.D. University of Southern California) is a linguist in the department of  Communication Sciences and Disorders. Her research interest lies in the field of Neurogenics.

Theresa A. Antes, Ph.D.
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Theresa Antes (Ph.D. Cornell) is a linguist in the Department of Language, Literatures, and Cultures. Her research and teaching interests focus on Second Language Acquisition, Pedagogy, and French Linguistics.

Helene Blondeau, Ph.D.
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Helene Blondeau (Ph.D. Montreal) is a linguist in the Department of Language, Literatures, and Cultures. As a sociolinguist, her research interests encompass language variation and change as well as language contact and bilingualism. Her current research focuses on linguistic change in varieties of Canadian French.

Diana Boxer, Ph.D.
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Diana Boxer (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is a linguist in the department of Linguistics. Her research interests encompass discourse analysis and pragmatics, second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics.

H. Wind Cowles, Ph.D.
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Wind Cowles (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego) is a linguist with an additional affiliation at the McKnight Brain Institute. She is also the coordinator for LIN 3010: Intro to Linguistics. Her research focuses on the interaction of information structure and language comprehension and production. She is currently doing research on the effects of topic and focus on a speaker's choice of syntactic structure, and on how discourse structure effects the processing of pronouns and other co-referential nouns.

James Essegbey, Ph.D.
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James Essegbey (Ph.D. Leiden University) is a linguist in the Department of Language, Literatures, and Cultures. He is interested in descriptive, documentary and theoretical linguistics, especially in the domain of syntax, semantics and pragmatics; contact linguistics; language and culture; Kwa languages of West Africa, especially Gbe (i.e. Ewe, Gen, Aja and Fon), Akan, and Ghana-Togo Mountain languages, and creole studies. Lately, he has been working on the influence of the Gbe languages on Suriname creoles, and, more recently, the description and documentation of Nyangbo, one of the Ghana-Togo Mountain languages.

Hana Filip, Ph.D.
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Hana Filip (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley) is a linguist in the Department of Language, Literatures, and Cultures. Her main area of specialization is semantics. Other areas of her research include pragmatics, syntax-semantics interface, typology, morphology, psycholinguistics and computational linguistics. Also, she is the Associate Editor of the  "Journal of Slavic Linguistics,"
(see also http://www.slavica.com/jsl/).

Paula Golombek, Ph.D.
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Paula Golombek (Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University) is a linguist in
the Department of Linguistics.  Her research interests include teacher
professional development in L2 teacher education, the knowledge-base of L2
teacher education, and second language pedagogy.

M.J. Hardman, Ph.D.
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M.J. Hardman (Ph.D. Stanford University) is an anthropological linguist. Her current interests include language and cultures, field methods, Jaqi languages, languages and gender, and language and violence.

Galia Hatav, Ph.D.
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Galia Hatav (Ph.D. Tel Aviv University) is a specialist in semantics. Her current interests focus on conditional semantics and biblical Hebrew.

Brent Henderson, Ph.D.
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Brent Henderson (Ph.D. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) is a linguist whose primary research interests include syntactic theory, case and agreement, and Bantu languages. His other interests include Semitic languages and the acquisition of syntax.

Benjamin Hebblethwaite, Ph.D.
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Ben Hebblethwaite (Ph.D. Indiana University) is a linguist in the department of Romance Languages and Literatures. His main interests in linguistics are syntax, code-switching, bilingualism, Creole studies, morphology, sociolinguistics and historical linguistics. He is also interested in publishing important translations in bilingual or trilingual English/Haitian Creole/French editions.

Edith Kaan, Ph.D.
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Edith Kaan (Ph.D. University of Groningen, The Netherlands) is the undergraduate director for Linguistics and has an additional affiliation at the McKnight Brain Institute. Her specialization is language processing and the brain. She focuses on sentence-level processing and conducts experiments using various behavioral and brain imaging techniques (event-related brain potentials, fMRI).

Virginia LoCastro, Ph.D.
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Virginia LoCastro (Ph.D. Lancaster, UK) is a sociolinguist. Her current interests include discourse and pragmatics, second language acquisition and language learning, and academic literacy.

Gillian Lord, Ph.D.
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Gillian Lord (Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University) is a linguist in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies. Her teaching and research interests include Spanish linguistics, second language acquisition, acquisition of phonetics and phonology, and pedagogy.

Masangu Matondo, Ph.D.
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Masangu Mantondo (Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)) is a linguist in the Department of Language, Literatures, and Cultures. He is interested in both descriptive as well as theoretical linguistics. In particular, his research is anchored in Phonetics (e.g. the phonetic realization of tone in Kisukuma and other Bantu languages), Phonology and Morphology of African languages and particularly Bantu languages. He is also interested in historical linguistics, comparative Bantu studies and the interaction of language and society in Africa.

Fiona McLaughlin, Ph.D.
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Fiona McLaughlin (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin) is a linguist who is also a member of the Department of Language, Literatures, and Cultures. Her teaching and research involve African languages, phonology, morphology, and sociolinguistics.

D. Gary Miller, Ph.D. (Emeritus Professor)
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Gary Miller (Ph.D. Harvard University) now emeritus. His current research interests are morphological theory; the syntactic history of Latin, Romance, and English; nonfinite structures; and etymology.

Andrea Pham, Ph.D.
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Andrea Pham (Ph.D. University of Toronto) is a linguist in the Department of Language, Literatures, and Cultures. Her research interests include phonology and second language acquistion.

David Pharies, Ph.D.
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David Phaires (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley) is chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. His interests include Spanish and Romance linguistics and historical linguistics.

Eric Potsdam, Ph.D.
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Eric Potsdam (Ph.D. University of California at Santa Cruz) is a linguist who specializes in syntax. His current research project is Variation in Control Structures, and he is currently on loan to the NSF as Linguistics Program Director. Other teaching and research interests include syntactic theory and the Austronesian language Malagasy.

Roger Thompson, Ph.D.
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Roger Thompson (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin) is a linguist who is also a member of the English Department. He is director of the graduate certificate in TESL. His current interests are language contact, second language acquisition, computer assisted instruction, TESL, and interaction and English structure.

Ratree Wayland, Ph.D.
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Ratree Wayland (Ph.D. Cornell University) is the graduate coordinator in Linguistics. Her teaching and research focus on acoustic phonetics, second language acquisition, comparative historical linguistics, south east Asian languages (Laotian, Thai, Khmer), and acquisition of tones by non-native speakers of tonal languages.

Ann Wehmeyer, Ph.D.
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Ann Wehmeyer (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is chair of the DepartmentLanguages, Literature, and Culture. Her current interests involve Japanese language and culture, the history of linguistics, language in Japanese society, and the origins of linguistics in Japan.

Caroline Wiltshire, Ph.D.
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Caroline Wiltshire (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is the Director of Linguistics. Her current teaching and research involve phonological theory, word structure, phrasal syllabification, expressive language, and Dravidian and Romance language phonology.

Visiting Faculty

Felicia Lee
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Felicia Lee received a PhD in linguistics from UCLA. Her primary area of research is syntactic theory (especially issues concerning the syntax/semantics interface), and the syntax of ndigenous languages of Mexico. Her book "Remnant Movement and VSO Clausal Architecture: A Case Study of San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec" was published by Springer in 2006.

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