Current Faculty
| Contact Information | Position | Area |
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Karlos Arregi (773) 702-8528 karlos@uchicago.edu |
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, and Humanities Collegiate Division | Mr. Arregi's interests include syntax, syntax-semantics, syntax-phonology interfaces, and morphology. He also specializes in Basque and Romance Linguistics. |
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Diane Brentari (773) 702-5725 dbrentari@uchicago.edu |
Professor, Department of Linguistics, and Humanities College Division. | Ms. Brentari’s research addresses issues in sign language grammars, particularly problems at the intersection of morphology, phonology, and prosody. Her work has primarily focused on sign language phonology as a way to understand the effects of communication mode (or modality) on language, as well as the flexibility of the human language capacity in constructing spoken and signed languages. |
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Amy Dahlstrom (773) 854-9910 a-dahlstrom@uchicago.edu |
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Linguistics, and Humanities Collegiate Division. | Ms. Dahlstrom works on American Indian languages, especially Algonquian languages. She is also involved in work on Lexical Functional Grammar and discourse structure. |
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Itamar Francez (773) 834-2366 ifrancez@uchicago.edu |
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, and Humanities Collegiate Division | Mr. Francez works on formal and lexical semantics as well as the syntax-semantics interface and philosophy of language. |
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Victor A. Friedman (773) 702-0732 vfriedm@uchicago.edu |
Andrew W. Mellon Professor Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures | Mr. Friedman's research addresses issues in Balkan linguistics, Caucasian linguistics, Slavic linguistics, areal linguistics, contact linguistics, sociolinguistics, grammatical categories |
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Susan Gal (773) 702-2551 s-gal@uchicago.edu |
Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor Departments of of Anthropology, Linguistics, and the College | Ms. Gal's specializations are in the role of language in culture and society, in gender theory, and in language issues in Eastern Europe. |
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Anastasia Giannakidou (773) 834-9819 giannaki@uchicago.edu |
Professor. Department of Linguistics, and Humanities Collegiate Division. | Ms. Giannakidou works on formal semantics, syntax, pragmatics, and their interfaces, with emphasis on variation in meaning and form across and within languages. She studies Greek, Germanic, and Romance languages, and has also been involved in studies of Chinese, Basque, and Korean. Currently, she studies the linguistic properties of home sign systems with colleagues in the Psychology department, and is interested in the properties of bilingual language acquisition and education. |
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John Goldsmith (773) 702-8525 ja-goldsmith@uchicago.edu |
Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor. Departments of Linguistics, Computer Science and Physical Science Collegiate Division, and Humanities Collegiate Division. | Mr. Goldsmith is concerned with computational linguistics, phonological theory, Bantu languages, ASL, and French. |
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Lenore A. Grenoble (773) 702-0927 grenoble@uchicago.edu |
Carl Darling Buck Professor, Slavic Linguistic Associate Chair. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures | Ms. Grenoble is interested in Slavic, Tungusic and languages of the North, discourse and conversation analysis, deixis, contact linguistics and language endangerment and revitalization. |
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Chris Kennedy (773) 834-1988 ck@uchicago.edu |
Professor and Chair. Department of Linguistics | Mr. Kennedy's research addresses issues in syntax, semantics, pragmatics and the philosophy of language, and he is also engaged in work on language processing and acquisition. |
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Greg Kobele (773) 834-9819 kobele@uchicago.edu |
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor. Computation Institute, and Department of Linguistics | Mr. Kobele works on syntax and semantics, in particular from a computational and mathematical perspective. |
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Jason Merchant (773) 702-8523 merchant@uchicago.edu |
Professor. Department of Linguistics | Mr. Merchant's interests are in syntax, semantics, and typology, with particular emphasis on Greek and the Germanic languages. |
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Salikoko S. Mufwene (773) 702-8531 s-mufwene@uchicago.edu |
Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor. Department of Linguistics, Humanities Collegiate Division | Mr. Mufwene studies language evolution, with special attention to creole language varieties, African-American English, and colonial Englishes. He has also worked on semantics, lexicography, pragmatics, and Bantu morphosyntax. |
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Jason Riggle (773) 702-8528 jriggle@uchicago.edu |
Associate Professor, Director of Language Modeling Lab Department of Linguistcs | Mr. Riggle works in phonology, morphology, and computational linguistics. |
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Michael Silverstein (773) 702-7713 m-silverstein@uchicago.edu |
Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor. Departments: Anthropology, Linguistics, and Psychology and Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities | Mr. Silverstein works on American Indian languages, Australian languages, cultural semiotics, and cognition. |
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Ming Xiang (773) 702-8023 mxiang@uchicago.edu |
Assistant Professor. Department of Linguistics | Ms. Xiang works in sentence processing and experimental syntax and semantics. |
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Alan C. L. Yu (773) 702-8522 aclyu@uchicago.edu |
Associate Professor. Department of Linguistics | Mr. Yu works on phonological theory, language variation and change, morphology, phonetics, psycholinguistics, Native American languages and Cantonese. |