Core Faculty
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Kristen Syrett
Department Chairshe/her(s)
Title: Professor
Contact: kristen.syrett (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Language acquisition, psycholinguistics, experimental semantics and pragmatics, syntax/semantics interface
Office: Room 304
Lab: Laboratory for Developmental Language Studies (RuCCS, A102/A136)
Student Support Hours Fall 2024: Tuesdays 11:00 am-12:00 pm (in person or Zoom) and by appointment
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Crystal Akers
Online Program Coordinator
Title: Associate Teaching Professor
Contact: cakers (at) rutgers.edu
Contact for Undergraduate Matters: undergrad (at) linguistics.rutgers.edu
Interests: On-line pedagogy, linguistics curricular development, phonological learning
Advisor for Speech and Hearing Certificate and Club
Office: Room 106
Office Hours Fall 2024: Drop-in on Zoom Wednesday 10am-11am, in person on Friday at 73 Easton Ave., Room 203
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Dorothy Ahn
Title: Assistant Professor
Contact: dorothy.ahn (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, syntax/semantics mapping
Office: Room 305
Office Hours Fall 2024: Thursday 12:00-1:30pm (by appointment only)
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Akinbiyi Akinlabi
Title: Professor
Contact: akinlabi (at) linguistics.rutgers.edu, 732-932-8432
Interests: Phonology, morphology, Optimality Theory, West African linguistics
Office: Room 202
Office Hours Fall 2024: Starting Sept. 11, Wednesday 1:00-2:30pm, Rm. 202, 73 Easton Ave. If you have class during this time, you may contact me to arrange another time to meet. Keep in mind that due to demands on my time, you should arrange a time to meet several days in advance.
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Mark Baker
Title: Distinguished Professor
Contact: mabaker (at) linguistics.rutgers.edu
Interests: Comparative syntax, linguistic universals, semantic roles, Amerindian and African languages
Office: Room 203
Office Hours Fall 2024: Monday & Wednesday, 3:50-5:10pm, Honors College S126
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Viviane Déprez
Title: Professor
Contact: deprez (at) linguistics.rutgers.edu
Interests: Comparative syntax, syntax/semantics interface, Romance and Creole languages
Office: Room 201
Lab: Comparative and Experimental Linguistics Lab
Office Hours Spring 2024: Wednesday 10:00-11:00am, Office 221, 1 Spring St.
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Adam Jardine
Graduate Program Director
Title: Associate Professor
Contact: adam.jardine (at) rutgers.edu
Contact for Graduate Program Matters: grad (at) linguistics.rutgers.edu
Interests: Phonology, learning theory, computational linguistics, language documentation, typology, mathematical linguistics
Office: Room 205A
Office Hours Fall 2024: Monday 10:30-11:30am (in person at 1 Spring St., Rm. 412, or Zoom, Link to Zoom Office)
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Maria Kouneli
Title: Assistant Professor
Contact: maria.kouneli (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Syntax, Morphology, number, complementation, agreement, Greek, Kipsigis
Office: Room 303
Office Hours Fall 2024: Wednesday 12:30-1:30 pm (or by appointment) at 73 Easton Ave. Office 203
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Barnali Mazumdar
Title: Teaching Instructor
Contact: barnali.mazumdar (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Aphasia assessment development, Language in aphasia and aging, Cross-language aphasia, Neurolinguistics
Office: Room 106
Office hours Fall 2024: Tuesday & Friday 11:00am-12:00pm. Zoom or in-person. Office hours will be held on Fridays by appointment only. You can set up a meeting time by emailing me at least three days ahead of the day you plan to meet. 73 Easton Ave., Office 203.
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Adam McCollum
Title: Associate Professor
Contact: agm132 (at) linguistics.rutgers.edu
Interests: Phonology, laboratory phonology, phonology-phonetics interface, fieldwork, language documentation, Central Asian and West African languages
Office: Room 204
Office Hours Spring 2024: Tuesday 9:00-10:00am
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Troy Messick
Undergraduate Program Director
Title: Assistant Professor
Contact: troy.messick (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Syntax, Morphology, pronouns, agreement, ellipsis
Office: Room 302
Office Hours Fall 2024: Thursday 9:00-11:00 am or by appointment. Location: 73 Easton Ave./Zoom/Hidden Grounds
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Bruce Tesar
personal websiteTitle: Professor
Contact: tesar (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Computational learning & parsing, Optimality Theory, phonology
Office: Room 109
Office Hours Fall 2024: In Person: Monday 2:00- 3:00pm, and by appointment. Online (Zoom): by appointment. Contact the instructor via e-mail to schedule an appointment.
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Yimei Xiang
Title: Associate Professor
Contact: yimei.xiang (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Semantics, Syntax-Semantics interface, Chinese & East Asian linguistics
Office: Room 205
Office Hours Fall 2024: Wednesday & Friday 1:30-2:00 pm, or by appointment
Emerita/-us Faculty
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Maria Bittner
Title: Professor Emerita
Contact: mbittner (at) linguistics.rutgers.edu
Interests: Cross-linguistic semantics and pragmatics, discourse dynamics, Kalaallisut
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José Camacho
Title: Professor
Dr. Camacho is now at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Contact: jcamacho (at) uic.edu
Interests: Spanish syntax, second language acquisition, language contact, Amazonian linguistics
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Veneeta Dayal
Title: Distinguished Professor Emerita
Dr. Dayal is now at Yale University.
Contact: veneeta.dayal (at) yale.edu
Interests: Semantic theory, Cross-Linguistic Semantics, Syntax-Semantics Interface
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Paul de Lacy
Title: Professor Emeritus
Contact: delacy (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Phonology, morphology
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Jane Grimshaw
Title: Distinguished Professor Emerita
Contact: grimshaw (at) linguistics.rutgers.edu
Interests: Syntactic theory, lexical representation, Optimality Theory
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Alan Prince
Title: Board of Governors Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
Interests: Phonology, Optimality Theory, prosodic morphology
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Ken Safir
Title: Distinguished Professor
Contact: safir (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Syntactic theory, binding theory, Germanic and African linguistics
