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Laura Kalinمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Linguistics
• Syntax
• Morphology
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Laura Kalin is the Acting Director of the Program in Linguistics at Princeton University since Fall 2024, having previously served as Associate Director from Fall 2023. She is an Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Council of the Humanities and joined Princeton in 2016. Her full name is Laura Kalin, and she holds a Ph.D. from UCLA (2014). She is based at Green Hall (1-S-4C/1-S-19) and can be reached via lkalin@princeton.edu. Her research focuses on syntax and morphology in understudied and endangered languages, particularly Neo-Aramaic (e.g., Turoyo, Senaya, and Adıyaman Kurmanji), Austroasiatic (Nancowry), Austronesian (Malagasy), and Carib (Hixkaryana) languages. Key research themes include allomorphy, infixation, nominal licensing, agreement systems, and the interplay between morphosyntax and phonology. She also explores root-and-pattern morpho-phono-syntactic structures in languages like Malagasy and Turoyo. Laura’s research contributions span formal linguistic theory, typology, and fieldwork-based analysis. Recent work emphasizes cyclic morphosyntax-phonology interactions and morphological opacity across languages. She has published in major journals such as NLLT and Glossa, and her website (www.laurakalin.com) provides further details on her work. No scientific awards are explicitly listed in the provided texts. Her advising and grant activities remain unreported here. She is affiliated with the Program in Linguistics, the Humanities Council, and the Joseph Henry House at Princeton.

• Linguistics
• Cognitive Psychology
• Computational Psychology
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Yasutada Sudo is a Professor of Linguistics at University College London (UCL), holding positions since 2024. Previously, he served as Associate Professor (2018–2024) and Lecturer in Semantics (2013–2018) at UCL. He earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT. His research focuses on formal semantics, pragmatics, and their intersections with cognitive psychology and computational models. Key areas include scalar implicatures, plural predication, anaphora resolution, and linguistic typology. His work spans multiple languages, including Japanese, Greek, and Italian. His research interests emphasize experimental semantics, cross-linguistic variation in quantificational structures, and the interaction between syntax and semantics. Recent work explores non-maximality effects, perspective sensitivity, and the cognitive underpinnings of pragmatic inferences. He has contributed to debates on Magri effects, blindess hypotheses, and the role of context in interpretation. Publications from 2025–2021 reveal a focus on scalar implicatures, plural inferences, and formal semantic frameworks. His 2025 articles address alternative-based analyses and experimental validation of pragmatic theories. Earlier work (2020–2014) covers gender in Greek, ordinal semantics, and perspective-shifting verbs like 'come' and 'go'. No scientific awards are explicitly listed, but his extensive publication record reflects scholarly impact. He leads UCL’s semantics research group, hosting seminars like PLIN0056, and contributes to academic discourse through peer-reviewed journals and conference presentations.

• Formal semantics
• Pragmatics
• Syntax-semantics interface
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Kajsa Djärv is a Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, affiliated with the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences and the department of Linguistics and English Language. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania (2019), and previously served as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz. Her research focuses on formal semantics and pragmatics, exploring interactions between syntax, semantics, and discourse. Key areas include attitude reports (e.g., belief/knowledge representations), clausal complementation strategies, factivity, and embedded main clause phenomena. She employs experimental methods to investigate grammatical constraints and cross-linguistic variation in meaning representation. Teaching responsibilities include undergraduate and graduate courses in semantic theory and guided research. She currently supervises PhD and MSc students in formal semantics and pragmatics. Notable awards include the Humboldt Research Fellowship (2020–2022). Collaborative projects involve scholars like Donka Farkas (UC Santa Cruz) and Deniz Özyıldız (University of Konstanz), addressing topics such as argument-structure alternations and meaning-driven syntactic restrictions. Djärv is an affiliate member of the MECORE research project on cross-linguistic clausal embedding patterns.

• Semantics
• Pragmatics
• Syntax
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Kyle Rawlins is a Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), where he heads the Semantics Lab located in Krieger Hall 105. His research focuses on semantics, pragmatics, syntax, and their intersections, often collaborating with labs like the Van Durme Lab in Computer Science. The Semantics Lab facilitates weekly meetings for discussing research, structured as seminars or traditional lab sessions, and co-organizes projects such as the Decomp Project and MegaAttitude Project . Current lab members include PhD students Karl Mulligan and Natalia Talmina. Notable collaborators: Ilaria Frana (University of Enna), Barbara Landau (JHU), Ben Van Durme (JHU CS), and Aaron Steven White (Rochester). His research spans topics like: Questions Under Discussion (QUD) frameworks Evidentiality and bias in language Multimodal semantic parsing Decompositional semantics Pragmatic particles in Italian Recent publications analyze polar questions, neural network representations, and discourse particles. The lab maintains a mailing list for event announcements, emphasizing collaborative research in semantics and computational linguistics.

• Linguistics
• Phonology
• Morphology
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Péter Szigetvári is an Associate Professor at the School of English and American Studies , Eötvös Loránd University , specializing in the Department of English Linguistics . His work bridges phonology, morphology, and theoretical linguistics, with a focus on Hungarian and English language structures. Academic Rank: Associate Professor Department: Department of English Linguistics University: Eötvös Loránd University His research explores phonological patterns , including vowel harmony, syllable structure, and morphological constraints. He investigates the interplay between morphology and phonology in Hungarian and English, analyzing phenomena like diminutive formation, diphthong debates, and stress-related vowel reduction. Recent publications highlight trends in Vowel Harmony , Syllable Typology , and Morpho-Phonological Variation . His work often challenges traditional frameworks, proposing paradigm-based or VC phonology approaches. Péter Szigetvári's professional activities include contributions to linguistic journals and a blog at nyest.hu . His office is located at Room 302, Rákóczi út 5, Budapest (1088).

• Syntax
• Morphology
• Semantics
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Stefano Quaglia is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Romance Studies , University of Graz. His research focuses on syntax and its interfaces with morphology and semantics , using Italian as a comparative framework within and beyond Romance languages. Email: stefano.quaglia@uni-graz.at Office: Room 003303056, Merangasse 70/III, Graz, Austria Consultation Hours: Wednesday, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Research interests include: Spatial expressions and functional sentence structure Long-distance dependencies Language contact phenomena Particle verbs and clausal organization Wh-movement and information structure Cross-linguistic syntactic analysis Recent publications highlight empirical and theoretical work on verbal theme vowels , Slavic prefix ordering , and L3 transfer dynamics . His studies integrate synchronic analysis with diachronic and contact linguistics frameworks. Articles demonstrate trends in: Syntax-morphology interfaces : Allomorphy, prefix stacking, particle systems Comparative Romance-Slavic analysis : Extraction patterns, convergence phenomena Language acquisition : CLI effects in bilingual/multilingual contexts Prosodic constraints : Stress and phrasing in particle verbs Information structure : Wh-questions in Romance

Thomas Rainsfordمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس

• Historical Romance Linguistics
• Phonology
• Corpus Linguistics
• +۲ مورد دیگر

Thomas Rainsford is a Lecturer at the University of Stuttgart's Institute of Linguistics, Division of Romance Linguistics. His research focuses on historical Romance linguistics, particularly phonological change, morpho-syntax, and corpus development. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and has held positions at ENS de Lyon and as a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford. Research interests center on: Diachronic evolution of French, Occitan, and Italian Prosodic changes and phonological annotation Lexical and morpho-syntactic aspects of motion events Historical corpus development with multi-layer annotation Publications demonstrate consistent focus on: Historical phonology and orthographic systems Syntactic change in medieval Gallo-Romance languages Corpus linguistics methodologies Computational approaches to historical texts Awards include the British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Current research involves leading a DFG-funded project examining motion events in French and Italian through lexical and syntactic change analysis. Developed the Old Gallo-Romance Corpus (OGR) with specialized phonological and metrical annotation layers.

Michael Kenstowiczمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Phonology
• Phonetics
• African Languages
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Michael Kenstowicz is a Professor of Linguistics at MIT, leading the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. As Graduate Program Director, he oversees academic programs and student development. His research focuses on phonology, phonetics, and the study of African and East Asian languages. He holds a Ph.D. in Lithuanian Phonology from the University of Illinois (1971). Key research interests include vowel harmony systems, tonal phonology, and loanword adaptation. Notable work examines Chukotko-Kamchatkan vowel harmony, Mandarin tone evolution, and Korean pitch accent systems. He collaborates extensively with scholars like Chiyuki Ito and Youngah Do, producing foundational studies in generative phonology and cross-linguistic analysis. Recent publications (2024) explore vowel harmony in diverse languages, tone sandhi in Mandarin dialects, and theoretical contributions to generative phonology. His work bridges laboratory phonology with formal theory, emphasizing empirical and experimental methods. Ph.D. Advisor: Multiple advisees in phonology and phonetics Grants: Not explicitly listed in text Lab affiliations: MIT Phonology Circle

Guillaume Thomasمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Linguistics
• Corpus Linguistics
• Semantics
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Guillaume Thomas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the study of meaning (semantics and pragmatics) in relation to morphosyntactic structures, particularly in Mbyá Guaraní, a Tupí-Guaraní language spoken in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. He combines corpus linguistics and digital methods with fieldwork, developing resources like dependency treebanks and morphological analyzers. His work includes language documentation projects, such as the National Inventory of the Cultural Heritage of the Guaranis in Brazil, which involved community-based documentation of oral traditions. His research interests also encompass usage-based approaches, probabilistic models in language analysis, and the interface between semantics and syntax. Education: PhD in Linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Research Interests: Cross-linguistic semantics and pragmatics Morphosyntax and its interface with meaning Language documentation and digital linguistics Corpus-based methods and computational tools for endangered languages Funding: Supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Connaught Fund. His work integrates theoretical linguistics with practical applications in language preservation and computational modeling. Labs/Teams: He collaborates with the Indigenous Museum of Rio de Janeiro on documentation projects and contributes to the Universal Dependencies project for syntactic annotation.

Ezer Rasinمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس ارشد

• Theoretical Phonology
• Computational Phonology
• Learnability
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Ezer Rasin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Tel Aviv University (TAU), where he also leads the TAU Phonological Computation Lab. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from MIT (2018), an MA and BSc in Linguistics and Mathematics from TAU (both prior to his PhD). Before joining TAU, he was a postdoctoral researcher in Leipzig University's IGRA program. His research focuses on theoretical and computational phonology, learnability, and formal linguistics. Key areas include phonological opacity, optimality theory, and the interaction between phonology and morphosyntax. His work bridges empirical phonology with computational modeling, addressing questions about language acquisition and formal grammatical architecture. Recent publications examine challenges to size-based parallel analyses in Hebrew vowel deletion, opacity phenomena in Gua and Akan, and computational approaches to phonological learning. He has contributed to journals like Linguistic Inquiry and Journal of Language Modelling , and co-edited proceedings for NELS and other conferences. Rasin teaches courses on phonological opacity, computational phonology, and the phonology-morphology interface at TAU. His research also involves developing audio databases for endangered languages like Judeo-Baghdadi Arabic, reflecting his commitment to computational methods in linguistic documentation.

Marlyse Baptistaمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Creole Languages
• Syntax
• Language Contact
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Marlyse Baptista is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA). Her research focuses on creole languages, particularly Cape Verdean Creole, exploring morpho-syntax, language contact, sociolinguistics, and documentation. She has made significant contributions to creole studies through fieldwork in Cape Verde, examining language variation and historical roots. Baptista is a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (2016), recognizing her distinguished contributions. She has advised numerous students at the University of Georgia and the University of Michigan, mentoring work on syntax, language contact, and creole formation. Her fieldwork across Cape Verde’s nine islands has produced a comprehensive corpus of natural speech data, advancing creole documentation and advocacy for its official status. Collaborations include the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures and interdisciplinary projects linking genetics with language origins. Baptista’s research bridges theoretical linguistics and sociopolitical activism, promoting creole languages in education and cultural preservation. Education: Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard University, postdoctoral work at MIT, and academic roles at the University of Georgia (1998–2007) before joining the University of Michigan in 2007. She co-founded the Cape Verdean Creole Institute and led literacy workshops to advance creole’s role in education. Key Research Areas: Creole syntax, language contact, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics. She uses generative syntax and typological frameworks to analyze creole systems while advocating for creole languages’ institutional recognition.

Alec Marantzمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Neurolinguistics
• Morphology
• Syntax
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Alec Marantz is a Silver Professor of Linguistics and Psychology at New York University's College of Arts & Science. He joined NYU in 2006 from MIT, where he served as Department Head and Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor. As Chair of NYU's Linguistics Department (2007–2013), he co-founded the Distributed Morphology theory. His research bridges linguistics, psychology, and neuroscience, focusing on morphology, syntax, and neurolinguistics. His work uses MEG neuroimaging to study how language is processed in the brain, emphasizing cross-linguistic studies (e.g., Arabic, Hindi). He directs the Neuroscience of Language Lab (NeLLab), exploring neural correlates of linguistic structure and computations. Marantz's research highlights language universals and the brain's mechanisms for processing complex linguistic structures. His key contributions include pioneering the 'full decomposition' model of morphological complexity and advancing MEG methods for studying language. NeLLab's Abu Dhabi branch focuses on understudied languages like Arabic, enhancing cross-linguistic understanding. Marantz's work integrates theoretical linguistics with empirical neuroimaging, addressing how syntax and morphology are represented neurally. His research spans topics such as word structure, predictive processing, and the neural basis of language acquisition. Marantz has advised numerous researchers and contributed to interdisciplinary collaborations. His labs investigate language processing across modalities (speech production, listening, reading), emphasizing both cognitive and neural mechanisms. Recent studies explore how the brain predicts linguistic structure and handles ambiguity. While no formal awards are listed, his global influence and foundational work in neurolinguistics are widely recognized. Future directions include expanding cross-linguistic studies and refining MEG techniques to map language-specific neural signatures. His work continues to bridge generative linguistics with empirical neuroscience, offering insights into the biological foundations of language.

Richard S Kayneمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Theoretical Syntax
• Comparative Syntax
• French Syntax
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Richard S. Kayne is a Silver Professor and Professor of Linguistics at New York University's Department of Linguistics, part of the College of Arts & Science. His research focuses on theoretical syntax, comparative syntax, and Romance languages (French/Italian). He has held editorial roles for Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax since 1989 and chaired the AAAS Linguistics Section (1994–1995). He has been honored with three honorary doctorates from Leiden (1995), Bucharest (2011), and Venice (2015). His work examines syntactic structures through micro-comparative approaches, exploring phenomena like expletive constructions, clitic doubling, and suppletion patterns. Notable contributions include the Antisymmetry of Syntax theory and analyses of hyper-complex inversion in French. Recent publications (2020–2024) address silent elements in syntax, polarity items, and morphological-phonological interfaces. His research integrates formal syntax with empirical data from Romance languages, emphasizing parameter theory and cross-linguistic generalizations. Grants and advising roles are not explicitly detailed in the provided materials, though his extensive publications suggest impactful mentorship in syntax. He is affiliated with NYU's Linguistics Department and contributes to the broader linguistic community through editorial work and international collaborations.

Mohamed Mwamzandiمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• African Linguistics
• Swahili Language Studies
• Corpus Linguistics
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Mohamed Mwamzandi is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He specializes in African linguistics and Swahili language education, emphasizing the role of Swahili as a lingua franca in East and Central Africa. His research focuses on corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, pragmatics, and morpho-syntax, with recent work addressing counter violent extremism through language and community engagement. Dr. Mwamzandi holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Arlington, an M.A. in Languages and Linguistics from Egerton University (Kenya), and a Certificate in African Language Pedagogy from Indiana University. His teaching integrates linguistic theory with practical applications, such as providing translation services to Swahili-speaking immigrant communities in the Research Triangle. His research employs corpus analysis tools to study Swahili syntax and pragmatics, including studies on demonstratives, conditional constructions, and reciprocal structures. He also explores the strategic use of Swahili in Kenya’s counter-terrorism efforts, advocating for multilingual approaches to security. His publications appear in journals like Studies in African Linguistics and conference proceedings such as the Southeast African Languages and Literatures Forum. Though no formal awards are listed, his work bridges academic research with real-world applications, particularly in language preservation, community service, and policy-oriented language studies.

Daniel A. Werningمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Ancient Egyptian Language
• Historical Linguistics
• Diachronic Language Typology
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Dr. Daniel A. Werning is the Head of Department for the Research Project 'Structures and Transformations of the Vocabulary of the Egyptian Language' at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). His primary affiliation is with the BBAW's Department of Egyptian Language Vocabulary, located at Unter den Linden 8, Berlin. He leads multidisciplinary research initiatives focusing on Ancient Egyptian linguistics and digital humanities. Research Focus: Grammar of Hieroglyphic Egyptian, Morpho-syntax, Script Systems, Language History, Spatial Linguistics, and Digital Text Encoding (TEI/EpiDoc). Key Projects: Leads the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae corpus and studies New Kingdom Netherworld Texts and Theology. Contact: +49-30-20370-447 | daniel.werning@bbaw.de His work bridges traditional philology with computational methods, contributing to both historical linguistics and digital scholarship frameworks. Current research emphasizes diagrammatology in religious texts and diachronic language structure analysis.