People in Language & Cognition
Charles J. Fillmore, Professor Emeritus
lexicon, semantics, syntax, text comprehension, English, Japanese
Alice Gaby, Assistant Professor
Australian languages; language, culture, and cognition; language documentation and description; linguistic typology
agaby@berkeley.edu
Susanne Gahl, Assistant professor
Psycholinguistics; Corpus linguistics; usage-based effects on language and cognition; language production and comprehension.
William F. Hanks, Professor
Department of Anthropology: The organization and dynamics of routine language use, Shamanism, and colonial history of Yucatan.
Carla Hudson Kam, Associate Professor
Department of Psychology: First and second language acquisition: In particular, I am interested in how these processes may constrain the form of languages, and how they might influence how languages change over time
Paul Kay, Professor Emeritus
color naming and perception, grammar, lexicon
Languages: English, French
(510) 666-2885
paulkay@berkeley.edu
ICSI
George P. Lakoff, Professor
Cognitive linguistics, especially the neural theory of language.
Conceptual systems, conceptual metaphor, syntax-semantics-pragmatics.
The application of cognitive and neural linguistics to politics, literature, philosophy and mathematics
lakoff@berkeley.edu
Dan I. Slobin, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Linguistics
linguistics (cognitive, functional, typological), psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language and cognitive development, sign language, cross-cultural
Languages: German, Dutch, Yiddish, Russian, Spanish, French, Turkish
slobin@berkeley.edu
Eve E. Sweetser, Professor
semantics, syntax, historical linguistics, Celtic languages, speech act theory, metaphor theory, semantic change, grammaticalization, grammatical meaning, gesture
sweetser@berkeley.edu