Ti Alkire

Ti Alkire is Senior Lecturer of French and Italian Language at Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences. He received the Russell Award for Excellence in Teaching and has developed specialized courses including Pronunciation of Standard French, French stylistics, Translation, and History of Romance Languages. Educational background includes a B.A. and M.A. from Middlebury College and Ph.D. in Romance Studies from Cornell University, with additional training at Université Paris X and Sorbonne's Centre d'argotologie.

Research interests encompass historical Romance linguistics, French/Italian linguistics, L2 phonology acquisition, language variation, translation, and semiotics. His publication 'Romance Languages: A Historical Introduction' provides a comprehensive overview of language evolution from Latin.