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
- Visiting student
Phonetics, phonology, prosody, language documentation and description, Aikanã language (isolate).
- Ph.D.
- 2013
- Ph.D.
- 2016
Affiliation: Brown University
Dissertation: Communicative care across borders: Language, materiality, and affect in transnational family life
- Graduate Student
Typology, historical linguistics and language change, quantitative methods, voice systems, person marking
- Visiting Scholar
Transdisciplinary, critical approaches to speech-language pathology (in particular in regards to gender diversity, voice, fluency), voice, communication, sociocultural positioning, wellbeing, agency in the production of voice, difference, and diversity, transgeneric approaches to speaking, writing, and performance.
- Academic Personnel Coordinator
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
- 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
- Lecturer
Language and cognition; corpus linguistics; computational methods
- Ph.D.
- 2007
Affiliation: SIL International
Dissertation: A Grammar of Dongwan Tibetan
- Graduate Student
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
- 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; Discourse and Grammar; Sociocultural Linguistics; Critical Discourse Analysis; Quantitative Methods; Tunisian Arabic
- Ph.D.
- 2011
Affiliation: University of Hawai'i
Dissertation: Discourse, landscape, and directional reference in Ahtna
- 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
- Ph.D.
- 2007
Affliation: Carpinteria Unified School District
Dissertation: Contextual constraints on interaction: Soaring talk
- Professor
- Chair
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
- Graduate Student
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
- Graduate Student
Historical linguistics/language change, case systems, Siberian languages (esp. Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
- Assistant 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
- Research Professor Emeritus
Native American languages; discourse; prosody; language and thought; laughter
- Professor
- North Hall Endowed Chair in the Linguistics of African America
African-American English; Language, literacy, and culture; sociolinguistics; community based participatory research in linguistics; language attitudes; multicultural education; undergraduate research
- 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
- 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
- Visiting Scholar
African American English, syntax, morphosyntax, ellipsis, prosody, first language acquisition, speech language pathology, pragmatics, language and education, language and identity, linguistic justice
- Ph.D.
- 1998
Affiliation: Amazon
Dissertation: Computing representations of the structure of written discourse
- Graduate Student
phonetics and phonology; languages of the Caucasus; historical linguistics; documentation
- 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
- Graduate Student
phonology, typology, metaphor, fieldwork, language description and documentation, Uyghur, Turkic languages, Chinese
- Ph.D.
- 1997
Dissertation: A Grammatical Overview of Santa Mongolian
- Ph.D.
- 1997
Affiliation: San Diego State University
Dissertation: Maintenance of ways of speaking in a community undergoing language shift: Language socialization in a Navajo preschool
- Ph.D.
- 2002
Affiliation: M*Modal
Dissertation: Sto. Domingo Bikol verbal portmanteau morphemes: Transitivity in conversation
- Graduate Student
Sociocultural linguistics; linguistic anthropology; language and gender; sociophonetics; prosody and affect; language documentation, description, and revitalization; Eskimo-Aleut languages