People in Fieldwork & Language Documentation
Alice Gaby, Assistant Professor
Australian languages; language, culture, and cognition; language documentation and description; linguistic typology
agaby@berkeley.edu
Andrew Garrett, Professor
Historical linguistics (language change and linguistic reconstruction), Indo-European languages, Yurok and other California Indian languages
garrett@berkeley.edu
Leanne Hinton, Professor emerita
American Indian languages, sociolinguistics, language loss and language revival
Languages: Havasupai, California Indian languages
(510) 219-4842
hinton@berkeley.edu
1224 Dwinelle
Larry M. Hyman, Professor
phonological theory, African languages - especially Niger-Congo
Languages: African languages, especially Bantu and other Niger-Congo
(510) 643-7619
hyman@berkeley.edu
James A. Matisoff, Professor Emeritus
Southeast Asian languages, especially Tibeto-Burman and Thai, Chinese, Japanese, field linguistics, Yiddish studies, historical semantics, psychosemantics, language typology, area linguistics
Lev Michael, Assistant Professor
Anthropological linguistics, documentation and description of Amazonian languages, grammar and interaction, prosodic systems and verbal art, language contact, language endangerment and revitalization
Languages: Nanti, Iquito, Omagua
levmichael@berkeley.edu
1212 Dwinelle Hall
Lynn Nichols, Assistant Professor
The Lexicon & Syntax, Lexical Semantics, Southwestern Pueblo Languages, Korean, Hindi, Burmese
nich@berkeley.edu
Richard A. Rhodes, Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor
American Indian languages, grammatical theory, phonology and lexicology
rrhodes@berkeley.edu