Faculty

Interests: Language policy, multilingualism in South Asia, language and social capital, language education

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, interactional sociolinguistics, theories of framing and intertextuality, linguistic construction of relationships and identities, digital/online discourse

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

Director, M.A. in Language and Communication

Associate Director, AELRC

Interests: Discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, intercultural (mis)communication, gender and workplace discourse, institutional gatekeeping encounters, using applied sociolinguistics in career paths in business, government, non-profit and tech organizations

Interests: Syntax, morphology, Amharic, Ancient Egyptian, gender, number, agreement, clitics, Distributed Morphology, minimalism

Interests: Syntactic variation, diachronic change, childhood acquisition, role of linguistics in the brain and cognitive sciences

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

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

Interests: Language testing and assessment, evaluation, research methodology, teacher education, and language assessment literacy

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

Interests: Phonology, phonetics and their interface, syntax-phonology interface, morphophonology, language documentation, ATR vowel harmony, tone and nasality. Language research focus on Gua, Akan and other Kwa languages.

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: 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: Discourse analysis, critically motivated conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis, classroom interaction, second language instruction, construction of diversity and (in)equity in ordinary and institutional interaction

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

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