Core Faculty
-
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 2022: Mondays 2:00-3:00pm (sign up on Calendly)
-
Crystal Akers
Acting 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 2022: Thursdays 10:00-11:00am and by appointment; sign up athttps://calendly.com/cakers-ling. I’ll be available on Zoom using the link in the StudentSupport/ Office Hours page on Canvas; in-person appointments may be available later.
-
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 2022: Wednesdays 2:30-4:00pm
-
Peter Alrenga
Title: Assistant Teaching Professor
Contact: peter.alrenga (at) rutgers.edu
Office Hours Fall 2022: Mondays 4:00-5:30pm, or by appt. (in-person or via Zoom)
-
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 2022: TBD
-
Simon Charlow
Graduate Program DirectorTitle: Associate Professor
Contact: simon.charlow (at) rutgers.edu
Contact for Graduate Program Matters: grad (at) linguistics.rutgers.edu
Interests: Semantics, scope and quantification, syntax/semantics interface
Office: Room 203A
Office Hours Fall 2022: TBD
-
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 Fall 2022: Thursdays 5:10-6:10pm in person, or by appt. (possibly on Zoom). For appts. contact me by email at the above address, or through the Canvas Class Website https://rutgers.instructure.com/courses/188484.
-
Mariapaola D'Imperio
Title: Distinguished Professor
Contact: mariapaola.dimperio (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Laboratory phonology, phonetics, prosody
Office: Room 204
On Leave Fall 2022
-
Adam Jardine
Title: Associate Professor
Contact: adam.jardine (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Phonology, learning theory, computational linguistics, language documentation, typology, mathematical linguistics
Office: Room 205A
Office Hours Fall 2022: Tuesdays 2:00-3:00pm
-
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 2022: TBD
-
Troy Messick
Title: Assistant Professor
Contact: troy.messick (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Syntax, Morphology, pronouns, agreement, ellipsis
Office: Room 302
Office Hours Fall 2022: Mondays/Wednesdays 1:00-2:00pm (on Zoom or in-person)
-
Ken Safir
Title: Distinguished Professor
Contact: safir (at) linguistics.rutgers.edu
Interests: Syntactic theory, binding theory, Germanic and African linguistics
Office: Room 106
On Leave Fall 2022
-
Kristen Syrett
Associate Dean, Office of Undergraduate Education, SASshe/her(s)
Title: Associate 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 2022: N/A
-
Bruce Tesar
Department ChairTitle: Professor
Contact: tesar (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Computational learning & parsing, Optimality Theory, phonology
Office: Room 109
Office Hours Fall 2022: In-Person: Mondays 2:00-3:00, and by appt. Online (Zoom): by appt. Contact the instructor via email to schedule an appt.
-
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 2022: Wednesday 10:00am-11:00am (online)
Emerita/-us Faculty
-
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
-
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
-
Maria Bittner
Title: Professor Emerita
Contact: mbittner (at) linguistics.rutgers.edu
Interests: Cross-linguistic semantics and pragmatics, discourse dynamics, Kalaallisut
-
Paul de Lacy
Title: Professor Emeritus
Contact: delacy (at) rutgers.edu
Interests: Phonology, morphology
-
Jane Grimshaw
Title: Distinguished Professor Emerita
Contact: grimshaw (at) linguistics.rutgers.edu
Interests: Syntactic theory, lexical representation, Optimality Theory
-
Alan Prince
Title: Board of Governors Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
Interests: Phonology, Optimality Theory, prosodic morphology
