Linguistics

Undergraduate Degrees
Graduate Degrees
Courses of Instruction


Grace Ford Salvatori 301
(213) 740-2986

Chair: Bernard Comrie, Ph.D.*

Faculty

Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in Humanities: Jean-Roger Vergnaud, Ph.D.

Professors: Elaine S. Andersen, Ph.D.; Joseph Aoun, Ph.D.; Bernard Comrie, Ph.D.*; Edward Finegan, Ph.D.*; John A. Hawkins, Ph.D.*; William E. Rutherford, Ph.D.; Mario Saltarelli, Ph.D. (Spanish and Portuguese); Mark Seidenberg, Ph.D. (Psychology)

Associate Professors: Hajime Hoji, Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Audrey Li, Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Barry Schein, Ph.D.; Roger D. Woodard, Ph.D. (Classics); Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, Ph.D.

Assistant Professors: Alicja Gorecka, Ph.D.; Maryellen C. MacDonald, Ph.D. (Psychology); Maria Polinsky, Ph.D. (Slavic Languages and Literatures)

Emeritus Professor: Robert B. Kaplan, Ph.D.

*Recipient of university-wide or college teaching award.

Degree Programs

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

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