John U. Wolff

John U. Wolff

Margarita Suñer

Margarita Suñer

Carol Gilson Rosen

Carol Gilson Rosen

Draga Zec

Zec's research focuses on phonological theory, a study of the principles that govern the patterning of sound in individual languages, as well as cross-linguistically. She has worked in several areas of phonology and its interfaces: on the moraic theory of syllable structure, the representation of pitch accent, and both the phonology-morphology and the phonology-syntax interfaces.

Munther A. Younes

Courses Developed and Taught:

Arabic Language (Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced, and Intensive Arabic)
Arabic for Heritage Speakers
Arabic Grammar and Writing
Introduction to Qur’anic Arabic
In Search of the Original Qur’an
Palestine in the News
Current Events in the Arabic Media
Modern Arabic Literature
Arab Society and Culture
Comparative Semitic Linguistics
Arabic Pedagogy Practicum

John B. Whitman

Whitman's main interest is the problem of language variation: its limits (how much specific subsystems can vary across languages) and predictors (what typological features co-occur systematically). Exploration of this general problem has led him to work on historical linguistics and language acquisition in addition to his central interest in synchronic syntactic variation across typologically similar languages.

Michael L Weiss

Weiss' main research interests focus on Indo-European linguistics. In particular he has been interested in the historical phonology and morphology of Greek, Latin and the Sabellic languages. He has also worked on the historical grammars of Tocharian, Old Irish, Anatolian, and Indo-Iranian. Links to his publications are available on hisAcademiasite.

Samuel Tilsen

Sam's research investigates the cognitive systems that control speech production and the forces which govern change in phonological structure over time. More detail can be found on his website.

W. Starr

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Amalia Skilton

Dr. Skilton is a Klarman Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at Cornell University. More details can be found on Amalia's website.

Jon Ander Mendia

Jon Ander Mendia

Mats Rooth

Rooth does research in two areas, computational linguistics and natural language semantics. He has worked on mixed symbolic/probabilistic models of syntax and the lexicon, on contrastive intonation (what is called focus), and on related phenomena such as ellipsis and presupposition. In addition to these, he is currently working on finite state models of phonology and phonetics.

Alan Jeffrey Nussbaum

The research Nussbaum has done has been on two different sets of things. On one side he's been interested in Indo-European linguistics in general, where most of his attention has been on questions the inflectional and (especially) derivational morphology of nominal forms in the reconstructed protolanguage. More specifically, he has worked on the morphological and semantic reconstruction of some characteristic denominative substantives and adjectives of Proto-Indo-European-e.g. collectives, decasuatives (nominals derived from actual case forms, rather than the stems, of their substantival bases), and the Caland system. His second research area is Greek and Latin comparative and historical linguistics, where he's studied a number of problems in Greek and Latin phonology and morphology, done some work on the Italic dialects, and dealt with Homeric language, largely from the point of view of Greek historical grammar, but also with an eye on the purely phonological and morphological aspects of the technique of epic composition.

Sarah Murray

Murray's primary research is in the semantics and pragmatics of natural language, specifically what sorts of formal representations are needed to analyze a variety oflinguistic structures across grammatically diverse languages. Topics she has worked on include evidentiality, modality, plurality, connectives, sentential mood, and speech acts.

Brenda Schertz

Brenda’s main interests include American Sign Language (ASL) and Deaf studies, concentrating on Deaf culture art, film and theatre. She coordinated the annual Maine Deaf Film Festival for twelve years and most recently co-chaired the Deaf Rochester Film Festival in 2017. An independent study on Deaf View Image Art (De’VIA) led to a first ever documented and curated exhibit organized in 1993 which led to successive exhibits in Boston and Oakland. These exhibits presented the Deaf experience through art and film. With the support of Harlan Lane and Northeastern University, Brenda organized a year-long, seven-city National Touring Exhibit of Deaf Culture Art in 1999. In 2018, she curated the exhibition Beyond Form: Non-Objective Art by Deaf Artists for the Dyer Arts Center at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.

David Mimno

David Mimno is an assistant professor in the department of Information Science at Cornell University. He holds a PhD from UMass Amherst and was previously the head programmer at the Perseus Project at Tufts and a researcher at Princeton University. His work is supported by the Sloan foundation and the NSF.

Lillian Lee

Claire Cardie

Yoav Artzi