People

Our department is a close-knit community, further enriched by strong social ties and daily interaction with our colleagues from other departments in CLS. Through the Rochester winters we manage to keep each other entertained.

Linguistics Faculty

Carlson, Greg
Professor, Linguistics, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Philosophy

carlson@ling.rochester.edu

T: (585) 275-5907

506 Lattimore Hall

Interests: semantic theory, psycholinguistics, discourse
Gunlogson, Christine
Assistant Professor, Linguistics

gunlog@ling.rochester.edu

T: (585) 275-5136

512 Lattimore Hall

Interests: formal semantics and pragmatics; how the form and meaning of questions relates to their use; intonational meaning; semantics of declarative and interrogative sentence types
McDonough, Joyce
Chair, Linguistics; Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences

jmmcd@ling.rochester.edu

T: (585) 275-2895
505 Lattimore Hall

Interests: phonetics, laboratory phonology, Athabaskan linguistics, morphological typology, speech processing
Paauw, Scott
Assistant Professor, Linguistics

spaauw@ling.rochester.edu

T: (585) 273-2366

509 Lattimore Hall

Interests: Austronesian Linguistics, Malay Dialects, Sri Lanka Malay, Morphology, Typology, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics (especially issues relating to diglossia and language planning), Languages in Contact, Pidgins & Creoles
Runner, Jeff
Associate Professor, Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences;
Director, Center for Language Sciences

runner@ling.rochester.edu

T: (585) 275-2626 (or 275-8053)

511a Lattimore Hall

Interests: experimental syntax; syntactic/linguistic theory; syntax-semantics interface; phrase structure; the roles of structural and pragmatic constraints on noun phrase (co-)reference