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LINGUISTICS
at Rutgers involves research and training in
all areas of the modern discipline. The department is a center of work
in Optimality Theory and hosts a group of syntacticians pursuing the
Minimalist Program. The semantics faculty have strong interests in the
syntax-semantics interface and in the formal-semantic issues raised by
the structure of non-Western languages. Close ties are maintained with
the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS),
the Center for African Studies, and with the university's Language Institute.
Faculty interests range across the core areas of theoretical
linguistics and include computational learning and parsing, the psychology
of language, language acquisition, and the philosophy of language.
Language specialties include Romance, Germanic, South Asian (especially
Hindi), Benue-Congo (esp. Yoruba), Edo, Amerindian (esp. Mohawk), Hebrew,
Haitian, Amazonian, Kalaallisut, and Polynesian.
The graduate program has thirty students with a wide range of
linguistic and cognitive interests. Each year, the department is enriched
by a number of scholarly visitors: their specialties have included
language acquisition, typology, phonological theory, formal and lexical
semantics, Germanic and Romance syntax, and computational linguistics. A
rotating faculty position, of varying specialization, guarantees fresh
input from distinguished outside researchers.
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