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Graduate Program

Descriptive Linguistics

Linguistics Faculty


Mary Beckman, Professor of Linguistics
History: (Appointed 1985) A.B., (Oriental Langs. & Comparative Literature), University of California, Berkeley, 1976 M.A., (Oriental Languages), University of California, Berkeley, 1979 M.A., (Linguistics), Cornell University, 1982 Ph.D., (Linguistics), Cornell University, 1984
Language Specialization: Japanese
Areas of Specialization: Experimental Phonetics, Laboratory Phonology, East Asian Languages.

Catherine Callaghan, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
History: Appointed 1965 Professor Emeritus, 1990 B. A., (Mathematics), University of California, Berkeley,1954 Ph.D., (Linguistics), University of California, Berkeley,1963
Language Specialization: Miwok, Sierra Miwok

Neil Jacobs, Associate Professor of Near Eastern, Judaic & Hellenic Langs. & Lits.; Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics
History: B.A. UCLA, 1974; M.A. Texas Austin; Ph.D. Columbia, 1984. Linguistically oriented courses taught: Yiddish 611, History of the Yiddish Language; Yiddish 612, Yiddish Linguistic Geography.
Language Specialization: Yiddish
Areas of Specialization: Phonology and morphology of Yiddish; Yiddish dialectology; Yiddish historical linguistics.

Brian Joseph, Professor of Linguistics (appointed 1979); Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Literature (appointed 1997)
History: Chair of the Department of Linguistics, 1987-1997, A.B., (Linguistics), Yale University, 1973, A.M., (Linguistics), Harvard University, 1976, Ph.D., (Linguistics), Harvard University, 1978.
Language Specialization: Balkan Languages; Modern Greek.
Areas of Specialization: Historical linguistics (Indo-European), morphology and morphological change; Relational grammar; syntactic change; Greek linguistics; Balkan linguistics; Sanskrit linguistics.

Isle Lehiste, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
History: Appointed 1963 Acting Chair, 1984-85 Chair of the Department of Linguistics, 1965-71, 1985-87 Professor Emeritus, 1987 Dr. Phil., (Philology), University of Hamburg, 1948 Ph.D., (Linguistics), University of Michigan, 1959 D.U. (honor.), University of Essex, 1977; Dr. Phil. (honor.), University of Lund, 1982; Dr. Phil. (honor.), University of Tartu (Estonia), 1989.
Language Specialization: Estonian, Serbo-Croatian

Robert Levine, Professor of Linguistics
History: (Appointed 1988) Interim Chair 1997-Present, B.A., Columbia College of Columbia University, 1968 Ph.D., (Linguistics), Columbia University, 1977.
Language Specialization: Kakwala; Haida

Mineharn Nakayama, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures (Syntax, Psycholinguistics), and Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics
History: B.A.Waseda University, 1983; M.A. University of Connecticut, 1986 (Linguistics); Ph.D. University of Connecticut, 1988.
Language Specialization: Japanese

David Odden, Professor of Linguistics
History: (Appointed 1985) B.A., (Linguistics), University of Washington, 1975 A.M., (Linguistics), University of Illinois, 1978 Ph.D., (Linguistics), University of Illinois, 1981.
Language Specialization: African language especially Bantu; Saami; Hawrami

Javier Jesus Gutierrez Rexach, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portugese; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics
History: (Appointed 1997) Ph.D. UCLA, 1997.
Language Specialization: Spanish

J. Marshall Unger, Professor and Chair, East Asian Lang. And Lits; Adjunct Professor, Linguistics.
History: A.B. 1969, A.M. 1971 Chicago (Far Eastern Lang. & Civ.), M.A. Yale University 1972, Ph. D. Yale 1975 (Linguistics).
Areas of Specialization: Psycholinguistic in the writing and reading of Gregg shorthand and Chinese Characters; scripts, literacy, and the Ideographic Myth; early history of the Japanese language.

Dieter Wanner, Professor of Spanish; Adjunct Professor of Linguistics
History: Prof. of Spanish. Dr. Phil I Zurich, 1968(Romance philology). Linguistically oriented courses taught: Spanish 736, History of Spanish Language; Romance Linguistics 811, Intro. to Romance Linguistics; Spanish 813, Old Spanish II: "Topics in syntactic developments from Latin to modern Spanish"; Spanish 814, Structure of Spanish; Spanish 894, Group Studies "Recent developments in Spanish Phonology".
Language Specialization: Spanish; Old Spanish
Areas of Specialization: Romance clitics: evolution of clitic systems from old Romance to the modern languages. Diachronic syntax of Old Spanish (using electronic data retrieval).

Donald Winford, Professor of Linguistics
History: (Appointed 1988) B.A., (English), Class I Honours, University of London, King's College, 1968 Ph.D., (Linguistics), University of York, U.K., 1972.
Language Specialization: Caribbean English-lexicon creoles, African American English
Areas of Specialization: Sociolinguistics; contact linguistics; variation theory; Pidgin and Creole linguistics; Caribbean Creoles.

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