Andrew Garrett is the director of the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. His earlier work has been in Indo-European historical linguistics (especially Anatolian, Greek, and Latin); since moving to Berkeley he has become increasingly interested in the indigenous languages of California. His work on Yurok (northwestern California) has included articles on Yurok historical linguistics, contributions to the tribal language program (including a practical dictionary compiled with Juliette Blevins and Lisa Conathan), and ongoing work on Yurok texts and a digital text and lexical archive.

Leanne Hinton teaches courses on American Indian languages as well as sociolinguistics and general linguistics. She has done research on various languages of the Southwest, Mexico, and California. Over the past decade, much of her research and consulting has been focused on endangered languages and language revitalization. Three recent books by her in this area include Flutes of Fire: essays on California Indian Languages (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1994), The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice (ed. with Ken Hale, Academic Press, 2001), and Keep Your Language Alive: A common sense approach to language teaching and learning (Heyday Books, 2002).

Richard Rhodes conducts research on topics relating to American Indian languages, particularly those of the Algonquian family, including bringing insights gained in fieldwork to bear on typology and on analytic issues in better studied languages. He has done extensive fieldwork on the Ottawa dialect of Ojibwe which is spoken in Michigan and southern Ontario, and on Métchif, a language of the northern plains consisting of French and Cree elements. More recently he has done fieldwork on Sayula Popoluca, a Mixe-Zoquean language of southern Mexico. His most important work is the Eastern Ojibwe-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary which incorporates two dialects of Ojibwe. He has written extensively on the syntax of Ojibwe, on topics of Ojibwe ethnohistory, and on the lexicography of American Indian languages.

Rosemary Beam de Azcona received her PhD in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. She is primarily interested in Mesoamerican descriptive linguistics, and has worked on Southern Zapotec languages since 1996. Her disertation was a grammar of Coatlán-Loxicha Zapotec. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research Center for Linguistic Typology at LaTrobe University in Australia.br>

Gabriela Caballero is a PhD candidate in the Linguistics department at Berkeley. Her research interests are focused on Uto-Aztecan languages, morphology, phonology, and comparative/historical linguistics. For her dissertation she is working on the morphology and phonology of Raramuri (Tarahumara), a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Mexico, and is conducting fieldwork on the dialect spoken in Choguita, Chihuahua. She is currently engaged in a documentation project funded by the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project ( Choguita Raramuri (Tarahumara) documentation and description). Recent papers include ‘Multiple exponence of derivational morphology in Raramuri’ (Linguistic Association of Great Britain 2006), ‘Stress assignment in Central Raramuri' (TREND 2005), 'Templatic back-copying in Guarijio' (LSA 2005), and 'The development of subtractive truncation in Tepiman' (SSILA 2006).

Lisa Conathan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Linguistics department at Berkeley. Her research interests are focused on Language Ecology, including Language Contact, Areal Linguistics and Language Contraction and Shift. She is primarily interested in languages of Northwestern California (particularly Yurok, Wiyot and the various Hokan languages) and of the Caucasus (Nakh-Daghestanian). Recent papers include Pragmatic convergence: person hierarchies in Northern California (WSCLA 2002), Inverses in Northern California (SSILA 2002), and Ergative and binominative constructions in Ingush (Berkeley-Stanford Workshop on Language Change 2001).

Christian Dicanio is a graduate student fieldworker studying San Martín Itunyoso Trique. His dissertation concerns consonantal effects on tone in Trique, with a focus on the fortis-lenis stop contrast and laryngeal segments. He is interested in phonetics, in particular tone, phonation type, positional strengthening/weakening, speech perception, laryngographic field data, and the use of phonetic evidence to explain or predict phonological patterns. He is also interested in the development of language materials for community use, dictionary-making, and Otomanguean languages in general. He is publishing a picture-dictionary in Trique and Spanish through IEEPO (Instituto Estatal de Educación Pública de Oaxaca) which is forthcoming.

Nicholas Fleisher is a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics. He has been involved in an ongoing fieldwork project on Hupa, a severely endangered Athabaskan language of northwestern California. Together with Andrew Garrett, Anne Pycha, and Lindsey Newbold, he has traveled to southern Oregon and to Hoopa, Calif., to work with one of the few remaining speakers of the language. Their work so far has primarily involved re-elicitation of texts recorded by Edward Sapir in 1927, along with new elicitation of the speaker's own stories told in Hupa. They have also recorded vocabulary items for the audio portion of the Hupa Online Dictionary, which is under construction.

Jeff Good is a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics. His primary research interest is the morphosyntax of verbs and verb phrases. He is interested in the Yanan languages (especially Yahi), the Bantu languages, Chechen, and Saramaccan. In addition to his linguistic research interests, Jeff is also interested in computational tools to aid linguistic research and has developed some software to assist in the analysis of Yahi texts.

Erin Haynes is a graduate student in linguistics. She has worked for three summers at the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation in central Oregon, where three languages are spoken: Wasco, Northern Paiute, and Sahaptin. She has done various projects there, mostly involving archiving and sociolinguistic work for the tribe. She has also done field work in Mono Lake Paiute, a language spoken on the Bridgeport Indian Colony in Eastern California, and was involved in the development of an on-line dictionary for that language.

Hannah Haynie is a graduate student in linguistics who works on Southeastern Pomo, a language of Northern California. She is interested in Pomoan languages and has helped with the Survey's acquisition of Pomoan materials from Robert Oswalt's collection. She is also interested in syntactic theory, historical linguistics, and linguistic geography and has recently been exploring statistical evidence for relationships among Hokan languages.

Reiko Kataoka

Yuni Kim is a graduate student in the linguistics department at Berkeley. She is interested in Huave, an isolate of southeastern Oaxaca State, and conducts fieldwork on the endangered dialect of San Francisco del Mar. As part of the Huave Language and Culture Project (PIs: Bill Hanks and Maurizio Gnerre), she is currently working on phonological and morphological description, creation of a lexical database, and collection and transcription of texts. Her other research interests include prosody, the phonetics-phonology interface, Scandinavian languages, and Finnish. (link to Yuni Kim's homepage)

Wesley Leonard is a graduate student with an interest in American Indian languages. He is especially interested in languages of the Algonquian language family and the social issues of language death and revitalization regarding native languages in general. His secondary interest lies in Japanese linguistics, and he is currently pursuing research in the semantics of Japanese temporal phrases.

Mary Paster received her PhD in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 2006. She is interested in phonetics/phonology and tone, African languages, and Indigenous American languages. She has worked with speakers of Mixtepec Mixtec, a language of Mexico, and Achumawi, a language of California. She is currently an assistant professor of linguistics at Pomona College.

Maziar Toosarvandani is a graduate student in the Berkeley linguistics department who works with speakers of Mono Lake Paiute, a variety of Northern Paiute (Uto-Aztecan) spoken in eastern California. He is collaborating with several Berkeley graduate students and Andrew Garrett to produce an online dictionary and text database for the language. He is also interested in syntactic theory and formal semantics, as well as the Iranian languages, in particular Farsi and Dari (language of the Iranian Zoroastrians).

William F. Weigel received his Ph.D. in linguistics at Berkeley in 2005. He currently works for the Nüümü Yadoha Program (Bishop, CA) as a consulting linguist for several Yokuts language programs in central California. His main interests are language revitalization, language contact, and grammatical relations. He also works on the historical phonology of Yiddish. In previous incarnations, Bill has been a lawyer, a short-order cook, a bicycle messenger, and a wood-mold specialist.

Tess (Esther) Wood is a Ph.D. candidate in the linguistics department. Her research interests include semantics, cognitive linguistics and semantic typology, and in particular the semantics of event plurality or 'pluractionality'. She is currently working on pluractionality in Yurok and other languages.