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
- AnderBois, Scott
- Visiting Assistant Professor
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scott.anderbois@rochester.edu
T: (585) 275-4258
514 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Pragmatics, Semantics, Discourse, Mayan Linguistics
- Carlson, Greg
- Professor, Linguistics, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Philosophy
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carlson@ling.rochester.edu
T: (585) 275-5907
506 Lattimore Hall
- Interests: semantic theory, psycholinguistics, discourse
- Gunlogson, Christine
- Assistant Professor, Linguistics
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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
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joyce.mcdonough@rochester.edu
T: (585) 275-2895
505 Lattimore Hall - Interests: phonetics, laboratory phonology, Athabaskan linguistics, morphological typology, speech processing
- Paauw, Scott
- Assistant Professor, Linguistics
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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
- Silva, Wilson
- Post Doctoral Lecturer, Linguistics
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wsilva@z.rochester.edu
T: (585) 273-5218
510 Lattimore Hall
- Interests: language contact in Northwest Amazonia, structure and functions of evidentials, noun class and classifier systems, nasal harmony, tone in Amazonian languages, multilingualism and comparative linguistics within the Tukanoan language family, language typology, language description, language revitalization.