Faculty

Interests: Syntax, syntax-semantics interface, morphology, comparative syntax, syntactic variation and change, dialect syntax, Mandarin and varieties of Chinese, understudied languages

Interests: Second language acquisition, task-based language teaching, interaction and corrective feedback, language learning in study abroad, teacher training

Interests: Discourse analysis; management of knowledge, beliefs, and emotions in language and interaction; metaphor and frame analysis; research interviewing and other qualitative research methods.

Interests: Discourse analysis, intertextuality, institutional discourse, health discourse, language and Alzheimer’s disease

Director, M.A. in Language and Communication
Interests: Discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, intercultural (mis)communication, gender and workplace discourse, gatekeeping encounters, using applied sociolinguistics in career paths in business, government, academia

Co-Head, Theoretical Linguistics Concentration
Interests: Syntax, morphology, Amharic, Ancient Egyptian, gender, number, agreement, clitics, Distributed Morphology, minimalism

Director, Communication, Culture & Technology Program
Co-director, Interdisciplinary PhD-Level in Cognitive Science
Interests: Syntactic variation, diachronic change, childhood acquisition, role of linguistics in the brain and cognitive sciences

Senior Associate Dean, Georgetown College

Interests: Phonology, language processing, linguistics and reading, language and the brain

Director of Graduate Studies
Interests: Second Language Acquisition: input, interaction, corrective feedback and individual differences in L2 learning, research methodology, quantitative and qualitative approaches, second dialect acquisition and linguistic identity construction

Director, AELRC
Interests: Language assessment, assessment literacy, study abroad, program evaluation and the current state of graduate programs in applied linguistics

Interests: Dialogue systems, computational linguistics/natural language processing, human-robot interaction, machine learning, pragmatics

Interests: Neural models/deep learning, especially representation and transfer learning; evaluation; computational linguistics/natural language processing

Director of Undergraduate Studies
Interests: Phonological variation, sociolinguistics, (socio)phonetics, phonological theory, dialect contact, change over the lifespan, vowel systems, accommodation & style-shifting, individual differences in language variation, research methods in phonetics

Director, Applied Linguistics Concentration
Convener, Initiative for Multilingual Studies
Interests: Second language acquisition, usage-based linguistics, bi/multilingualism, interfaces between L2 writing and L2 development, systematic research synthesis, epistemology and ethics in applied linguistics.

Co-Head, Theoretical Linguistics Concentration

Interests: Semantics, pragmatics, logic, philosophy of language, modality, mood, imperatives, corpus linguistics

Interests: Machine translation, corpora, domain adaptation, human-computer interaction in translation and interpretation, deep learning, natural language processing

Interests: Phonology, Morphology, The phonology/morphology interface, tone, language documentation, Kru and other African languages

Interests: Language variation and change, stylistic variation, sociolinguistic field methods, forensic linguistics

Interests: computational linguistics/natural language processing; lexical semantics; form-meaning interface; adpositions and case; cognitive linguistics; corpus annotation; machine learning; English, Hebrew, Arabic

Interests: Sanskrit philology, Indology, exegesis in Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism, ancient Indian intellectual systems, Braj Bhasha and other pre-modern Indian languages and their diasporic transmission

Interests: Educational linguistics, ideology, critical discourse analysis, social justice, globalization, and the spread of English(es)

Interests: Discourse analysis; analyzing everyday conversation, including conversations over social media; family interaction; cross-cultural communication; language and gender

Director, Computational Linguistics Concentration

Interests: corpus linguistics, syntax-semantics interface, usage-based grammar, discourse relations, multifactorial methods, natural language processing, digital humanities

Department Chair

Interests: Phonology, phonetics, and their interface, especially Articulatory Phonology, L2 phonology, Laboratory Phonology, and tone. Languages researched include Setswana, Serbian, Korean, Thai, Russian, Igbo, English