Linguistics

Grace Ford Salvatori 301
(213) 740-2986
FAX: (213) 740-9306
Email: lingdept@dornsife.usc.edu
dornsife.usc.edu/ling

Chair: James T. Higginbotham, Ph.D.

Faculty

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

Professors: Hagit Borer, Ph.D.*; Dani Byrd, Ph.D.; Louis Goldstein, Ph.D.; Audrey Li, Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Shrikanth Narayanan, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering and Industrial and Systems Engineering); Andrew Simpson, Ph.D.; Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, Ph.D.; Bruce Zuckerman, Ph.D. (Religion)

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

Assistant Professors: Khalil Isakrous, Ph.D.; Karen Jesney, Ph.D.

Lecturer: Sandra Disner, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor: Edward Finegan, Ph.D.*

*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.