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Donca Steriade serves as the Class of 1941 Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she also holds the position of Communications Director for the linguistics section.
Her research centers on phonology, morphology, and historical linguistics with specialized focus on Greek and Latin. Steriade has pioneered theoretical frameworks including the Perceptibility map (P-map) for understanding phonological markedness, while her morphological work explores paradigm uniformity, morphomes, and cyclicity across diverse languages. She integrates empirical data from classical languages with cutting-edge phonological theory.
Steriade's recent publications (2015-2025) reveal consistent exploration of quantitative meters in Greek/Latin poetry, morphophonological cyclicity in Romanian, and paradigm structure in Sanskrit reduplication. Her work demonstrates sophisticated interplay between phonological constraints and morphological processes, often revealing universal patterns through cross-linguistic analysis of classical and modern languages.
As Communications Director, she actively shapes the department's academic outreach and scholarly discourse within the linguistics community.
