Core Faculty
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Dorothy Ahn
On leave Fall 2023
Title: Assistant Professor
Contact: dorothy.ahn (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, syntax/semantics mapping
Office: Room 305
Office Hours Fall 2023: N/A
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Crystal Akers
Undergraduate Program DirectorOnline Program Coordinator
Title: Assistant 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 Hours Fall 2023: TBD https://calendly.com/cakers-ling
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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 2023: TBD
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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 2023: Monday-Thursday 12:00-1:30 and by appt. (in person or Zoom)
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Simon Charlow
On Research Leave
Title: Associate Professor
Contact: simon.charlow (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Semantics, scope and quantification, syntax/semantics interface
Office: Room 203A
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Viviane Déprez
On leave Fall 2023
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 Fall 2023: N/A
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Adam Jardine
Graduate Program DirectorTitle: 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 2023: Monday 10:00 am (in person or on Zoom)
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Adam McCollum
Title: Assistant 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 303
Office Hours Fall 2023: Thursday 9-10 am, or by appointment
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Troy Messick
Title: Assistant Professor
Contact: troy.messick (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Syntax, Morphology, pronouns, agreement, ellipsis
Office: Room 302
Office Hours Fall 2023: Thursday 10:00 am-12:00 pm (or by appt.).
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Kristen Syrett
she/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 2023: Tuesdays 10:30-11:30 am (in person or Zoom) and by appointment
Honors College "Cheers with Dr. Syrett" hours: Wednesdays 3:30-4:30 pm
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Bruce Tesar
Department ChairTitle: Professor
Contact: tesar (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Computational learning & parsing, Optimality Theory, phonology
Office: Room 109
Office Hours Fall 2023: In Person: Monday 2-3 pm, and by appointment. Online (Zoom): by appointment. Contact the instructor via e-mail to schedule an appointment.
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Yimei Xiang
Title: Assistant Professor
Contact: yimei.xiang (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Semantics, Syntax-Semantics interface, Chinese & East Asian linguistics
Office: Room 205
Office Hours Fall 2023: TBD
Emerita/-us Faculty
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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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Ken Safir
Title: Distinguished Professor
Contact: safir (at) emerita.rutgers.edu
Interests: Syntactic theory, binding theory, Germanic and African linguistics
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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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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
