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

Indo-European languages, historical linguistics, language change, Yurok and other California Indian languages
(510) 643-7524
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

Lynn Nichols, Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Advisor

The Lexicon & Syntax, Lexical Semantics, Typology, 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