Mary E. Beckman, Professor of Linguistics
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
Areas of specialization: Experimental Phonetics, Laboratory Phonology, East Asian Languages.
Marjorie K.M. Chan, Assoc. Prof. of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Adjunct Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
B.A. and M.A. University of British Columbia, 1980 (Linguistics); Ph.D. University of Washington, 1985
Areas of Specialization: Phonetics and phonology of the modern Chinese language and its dialects; gender differences in the Chinese language; sound symbolism; topics in historical Chinese phonology.
Neil G. Jacobs, Associate Professor of Near Eastern, Judaic & Hellenic Langs. & Lits.; Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics
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.
Areas of specialization Phonology and morphology of Yiddish; Yiddish dialectology; Yiddish historical linguistics.
Brian D. Joseph, Professor of Linguistics (appointed 1979); Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Literature (appointed 1997)
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
Areas of specialization: Historical linguistics (Indo-European), morphology and morphological change; Relational grammar; syntactic change; Greek linguistics; Balkan linguistics; Sanskrit linguistics.
J. Marshall Unger Professor and Chair, East Asian Lang. And Lits; Adjunct Professor, Linguisticcs
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
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".
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
(Appointed 1988) B.A., (English), Class I Honours, University of London, King's College, 1968 Ph.D., (Linguistics), University of York, U.K., 1972
Areas of specialization: Sociolinguistics; contact linguistics; variation theory; Pidgin and Creole linguistics; Caribbean Creoles.
Arnold M. Zwicky, University Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
(Appointed 1969) Professor Emeritus, 1995 B.A., (Mathematics), Princeton University, 1962 Ph.D., (Linguistics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965
Areas of specialization: Syntactic, morphological and phonological theory.
Alan Brown, Assoc. Prof. of English.
Dan Collins, Asst. Prof. of Slavic and East European Langs. & Lits.
Charles E. Gribble, Prof. of Slavic Langs. and Chair of Dept. of Slavic and East European Langs. & Lits.
Samuel A. Meier, Assoc. Prof. of Near Eastern Langs. & Culture.
Wayne J. Redenbarger, Assoc. Prof. of English & Romance Linguistics., Spanish & Portuguese.