People
- Ph.D.
- 1994
Affiliation: Nigeria Bible Translation
Dissertation: Tense and aspect in Obolo grammar and discourse
- Ph.D.
- 2014
Affiliation: Silver Academic Editing
Dissertation: Conversations with native speakers : acquiring Japanese as a second language
- Graduate Student
Descriptive and documentary linguistics; phonology; syntax; historical linguistics
- Graduate Student
Sign language linguistics, Language documentation and description, Typology, Phonology, Caribbean sign languages, Linguistic ethnography, Tactile sign languages, Language and social justice
- Graduate Program Advisor
Recruitment and admissions, student progress checks, advising, TA coordinator, payroll, fee remissions, committee consultant, student awards, stipends, block grant/graduate funding support, email list administrator
- Associate Professor
Department: Spanish
Area: HUFA
College: LTSC
Appointment: 2016
- Ph.D.
- 2013
- Graduate Student
Language documentation, descriptive linguistics, language revitalization, verbal art, literature, pedagogical grammar, prosody, morphosyntax, compoundings, language community engagement and social media empowerment, Quechuan languages
- Ph.D.
- 2016
Affiliation: Brown University
Dissertation: Communicative care across borders: Language, materiality, and affect in transnational family life
- Ph.D.
- 2022
Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Dissertation: Confronting challenges in historical linguistics: Quantitative approaches to dialect area subgrouping and tone change in Mixtec
- Ph.D.
- 2011
Affiliation: University of Helsinki
Dissertation: Yuki grammar in its areal context with sketches of Huchnom and Coast Yuki
- Ph.D.
- 1999
Dissertation: Towards a discourse model of prosodic structure: A prosodic and syntactic analysis of declination in Japanese
- Ph.D.
- 2014
Affiliation: Kumon Academy; University of Calirfornia, Santa Barbara
Dissertation: Effects of nonlinguistic context on language production
- Ph.D.
- 2020
Affiliation: California State University, Long Beach
Dissertation: Language Ideology, Linguistic Differentiation, and Language Maintenance in the California Mixtec Diaspora
- Graduate Student
Language, gender, and sexuality; computational linguistics; cognitive linguistics; language, technology, and society; trans linguistics; sociophonetics; inclusive language practices; metaphor and cognition
- Graduate Student
Language revitalization; minoritized languages; endangered languages; language documentation; Languages of French Polynesia; Native American Languages; Romance Languages; Germanic Languages (Frisian); Basque; Phonology; Phonetic Variation; Minoritized Languages and (Social) Media; Minoritized Language Translation.
- Graduate Student
Corpus Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics; Discourse and Grammar; Sociocultural Linguistics; Critical Discourse Analysis; Quantitative Methods; Tunisian Arabic; Quantitative analysis of low resource languages and unbalanced datasets
- Ph.D.
- 2011
Affiliation: University of Hawai'i
Dissertation: Discourse, landscape, and directional reference in Ahtna
- Graduate Student
Language documentation, revitalization, and reclamation; community-based frameworks and methodologies; applied linguistics; Numu (Northern Paiute); Austronesian languages; language contact; sociophonetics of World Englishes; morphosyntax; language and identity
- Assistant Professor
Psycholinguistics; sentence production; sentence processing; memory and language; eye-tracking; quantitative methods; meta-science
- Graduate Student
Historical and comparative linguistics; computational linguistics; language change and contact; lexicostatistics; biological methods in linguistics; computational cladistics; Icelandic (North Germanic); Zapotec languages (Oto-Manguean); linguistics in literary analysis
- Ph.D.
- 2018
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Dissertation: Realis and irrealis: Chini verb morphology, clause chaining, and discourse
- Graduate Student
Sociocultural linguistics; educational linguistics and linguistics outreach; language and social power; online discourse and multimodality; linguistic anthropology; transgender linguistics; language, gender, and sexuality; identity formation and communication; identity and intersectionality; methodology; language change; and linguistic ideologies
- Ph.D.
- 2007
Affliation: Carpinteria Unified School District
Dissertation: Contextual constraints on interaction: Soaring talk
- Professor
Sociocultural linguistics; language and identity; language and youth; language and race; language, gender, and sexuality; African American English; Chicano English and Spanish; language in California; discourse, cognition, and culture
- Ph.D.
- 2021
Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation: Competing Discourse of Diversity and Inclusion: Institutional Rhetoric and Graduate Student Narratives at Two Minority Serving Institutions
- Graduate Student
Historical linguistics/language change, case systems, Siberian languages (esp. Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
- Associate Professor
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
Typological, functional, and community-based approaches to phonology, morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, language documentation, lexical semantics, lexicography, language and culture, especially regarding Otomanguean languages spoken in Mexico and California
- Ph.D.
- 2007
Affiliation: University of California, Santa Barbara
Dissertation: Hiroshima stories: The construction of collective memorialization in survivors' narratives
- Ph.D.
- 2009
Affiliation: Oklahoma State University
Dissertation: Reconstructing stress in Proto-Tibetan: A study in historical comparative acoustics
- Professor
U.S. Spanish-language media; Chicana and Latina Popular Culture; Radio & Sound Practices; Racial Politics of Language; Accent Studies; Langauge Learning Technologies; and Ethnic Studies within K-12 schools.
- Research Professor Emeritus
Native American languages; discourse; prosody; language and thought; laughter
- Graduate Student
Language documentation, description and revitalization; typology; complex adaptive systems; emergent grammar; modality/modal-evidential systems; voice; argument-marking systems; Austronesian/Formosan linguistics; Chinese linguistics
- Graduate Student
Phonetics; prosody; second language acquisition; L2 prosody; speech production and perception; articulatory phonology
- Associate Professor Emerita
Language acquisition; language socialization; Japanese/Korean linguistics; discourse and grammar
- Professor
Language universals and typology; historical linguistics; languages of the Caucasus; languages of New Guinea
- Ph.D.
- 1998
Affiliation: Amazon
Dissertation: Computing representations of the structure of written discourse
- Ph.D.
- 2022
Affiliation: Rice University
Dissertation: Postcards from the syllable edge: sonority and articulatory timing in complex onsets in Georgian
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
Intercultural communication; ethnography and communication; theories of cultural adjustment; social semiotic processes of identification; language ideologies and linguistic landscapes; language and globalization
- Ph.D.
- 2015
Affiliation: University of Oregon
Dissertation: A reconstruction of Proto-Sogeram: Phonology, lexicon, and morphosyntax
- Ph.D.
- 2015
Affiliation: San José State University
Dissertation: A functional grammar of Khatso
- Graduate Student
Indigenous languages of the Americas; language documentation; language revitalization; morphosyntax; spatial semantics; localist semantics; Na-Dene; Tlingit; Cariban languages; languages of Oregon; languages of California; languages of Washington
- Professor
Discourse and grammar; sociocultural linguistics; referential pragmatics; grammaticization and emergence; complex adaptive linguistics; corpus linguistics; transcription; Mayan languages
- Ph.D.
- 2000
Affiliation: Rice University
Dissertation: Complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation: A discourse-functional perspective
- Graduate Student
Sociocultural linguistics; transgender linguistics; language, gender, and sexuality; identity formation and communication
- Ph.D.
- 1999
Affiliation: University of Melbourne
Dissertation: The clause in Cirebon Javanese conversation
- Graduate Student
Caribbean Spanish, dialectology, emoji use & interpretation, language contact & change, sociocultural linguistics, Spanglish, and virtual language
- Graduate Student
language endangerment, description, documentation, and revitalization; space in language, culture, and cognition; typology; and Amazonian languages