Univ of Southern California
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Linguistics

Grace Ford Salvatori 301
(213) 740-2986
FAX: (213) 740-9306
Email: lingdept@college.usc.edu
www.usc.edu/dept/linguistics

Chair: James T. Higginbotham, Ph.D.

Faculty

Distinguished Professor and Linda MacDonald Hilf Chair in Philosophy: James T. Higginbotham, Ph.D. (Philosophy)

Professors: Elaine S. Andersen, Ph.D. (Psychology); Hagit Borer, Ph.D.; Dani Byrd, Ph.D. (Vice Dean); Edward Finegan, Ph.D.*; Louis Goldstein, Ph.D.; Yen-hui Audrey Li, Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Andrew Simpson, Ph.D.; Carmen Silva‑Corvalán, Ph.D. (Spanish and Portuguese); Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, Ph.D.

Associate Professors: Elena Guerzoni, Ph.D.; Hajime Hoji, Ph.D.; Toben Mintz, Ph.D. (Psychology); Roumyana Pancheva, Ph.D.; Barry Schein, Ph.D.; Rachel Walker, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor: Elsi Kaiser, Ph.D.

Adjunct Associate Professor: Abigail Kaun, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor: Edward Finegan, Ph.D.

Associate Faculty with Titles in Linguistics

Shrikanth Narayanan, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering/Systems); Bruce E. Zuckerman, Ph.D. (Religion)

*Recipient of university-wide or college teaching award.

Degree Programs

The Linguistics Department offers undergraduate (B.A.) and graduate (M.A. and Ph.D.) programs. A wide range of courses allows students to study formal grammar (syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics); phonetics; psycholinguistics (natural language processing, first and second language acquisition, language disorders); sociolinguistics (discourse, quantitative approaches to style, linguistics and law); universals and typology; historical linguistics and Indo-European; East Asian linguistics (Chinese, Japanese, Korean); Germanic linguistics; Hispanic linguistics; Romance linguistics; Semitic linguistics; and Slavic linguistics.