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

Language and cognition; corpus linguistics; computational methods

sociocultural linguistics; linguistic anthropology; Mixtec languages (especially in California); linguistics and social justice; Indigenous language reclamation, maintenance, and documentation; diaspora linguistics; the linguistic construction of ethnoracial and gendered identities; educational linguistics and linguistics outreach; language and social power

Corpus Linguistics; Discourse and Grammar; Sociocultural Linguistics; Critical Discourse Analysis; Quantitative Methods; Tunisian Arabic

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, language and race, online discourse and multimodality, humor and activism on social media, language attitudes and ideologies, youth language and culture, African American Language

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

Language acquisition; language socialization; Japanese/Korean linguistics; discourse and grammar

African American English, syntax, morphosyntax, ellipsis, prosody, first language acquisition, speech language pathology, pragmatics, language and education, language and identity, linguistic justice

phonetics and phonology; languages of the Caucasus; historical linguistics; documentation

Affiliation: University of Oregon

Dissertation: A reconstruction of Proto-Sogeram: Phonology, lexicon, and morphosyntax 

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

Affiliation: Rice University

Dissertation: Complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation: A discourse-functional perspective

Affiliation: University of Melbourne

Dissertation: The clause in Cirebon Javanese conversation

language endangerment, description, documentation, and revitalization; space in language, culture, and cognition; typology; and Amazonian languages

Dissertation: A Grammatical Overview of Santa Mongolian