Affiliation: Silver Academic Editing

Dissertation: Conversations with native speakers : acquiring Japanese as a second language

Visitor parking arrangements, teaching evaluations, room and media equipment reservations, website updates and questions, technical assistance (e.g., copiers, printers), textbook and desk copy orders, office hours listings, keys, office supplies, business cards, door codes

Typology, historical linguistics and language change, quantitative methods, voice systems, person marking

Personnel policy and procedures, faculty recruitment and appointments, ladder faculty merits, promotions, career steps, retentions, appraisals, non-Senate faculty re-appointments, excellence reviews, merits, payroll, additional compensation, and contracts, sabbatical and other leaves, donor acknowledgment, faculty email list administrator, visiting scholars, new faculty email, UCSBNetID, orientation

Dissertation: Towards a discourse model of prosodic structure: A prosodic and syntactic analysis of declination in Japanese

Affiliation: SIL International

Dissertation: A Grammar of Dongwan Tibetan

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.

Affiliation: University of Hawai'i

Dissertation: Discourse, landscape, and directional reference in Ahtna

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

Affliation: Carpinteria Unified School District

Dissertation: Contextual constraints on interaction: Soaring talk

Sociocultural linguistics, linguistic anthropology, race, identity, power, online discourse and multimodality, activism on social media, humor, African American language and culture, diversity discourses in higher education

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

Affiliation: Oklahoma State University

Dissertation: Reconstructing stress in Proto-Tibetan: A study in historical comparative acoustics

African-American English; Language, literacy, and culture; sociolinguistics; community based participatory research in linguistics; language attitudes; multicultural education; undergraduate research

Phonetics; prosody; second language acquisition; L2 prosody; speech production and perception; articulatory phonology

Language universals and typology; historical linguistics; languages of the Caucasus; languages of New Guinea

Affiliation: Amazon

Dissertation: Computing representations of the structure of written discourse

Intercultural communication; ethnography and communication; theories of cultural adjustment; social semiotic processes of identification; language ideologies and linguistic landscapes; language and globalization

Affiliation: San José State University

Dissertation: A functional grammar of Khatso

Discourse and grammar; sociocultural linguistics; referential pragmatics; grammaticization and emergence; complex adaptive linguistics; corpus linguistics; transcription; Mayan languages

Sociocultural linguistics; transgender linguistics; language, gender, and sexuality; identity formation and communication

Caribbean Spanish, dialectology, emoji use & interpretation, language contact & change, sociocultural linguistics, Spanglish, and virtual language

phonology, typology, metaphor, fieldwork, language description and documentation, Uyghur, Turkic languages, Chinese