People

Faculty (Former)

Wallace Chafe (In Memoriam)
  • Research Professor Emeritus

Native American languages; discourse; prosody; language and thought; laughter

chafe@linguistics.ucsb.edu
Patricia M. Clancy
  • Associate Professor Emerita

Language acquisition; language socialization; Japanese/Korean linguistics; discourse and grammar

pclancy@linguistics.ucsb.edu
Bernard Comrie
  • Research Professor Emeritus

Language universals and typology; historical linguistics; languages of the Caucasus; languages of New Guinea; Great Andamanese languages

 

comrie@ucsb.edu
Susanna Cumming
  • Professor Emeritus
John W. Du Bois
  • Professor

Discourse and grammar; sociocultural linguistics; referential pragmatics; grammaticization and emergence; complex adaptive linguistics; corpus linguistics; transcription; Mayan languages

dubois@linguistics.ucsb.edu
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Jan Frodesen
  • Senior Lecturer SOE

Second language writing, pedagogical grammar, applications of corpus linguistics to second language pedagogy, content-based instruction

frodesen@linguistics.ucsb.edu
Carol Genetti
  • Professor Emerita

Language documentation and description, endangered languages, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, language change, Tibeto-Burman and Himalayan languages, Rhaeto-Romance

Charles Douglas Johnson
  • Professor Emeritus
Charles N. Li
  • Professor Emeritus

Evolutionary origin of language; animal communication; language and brain

Arthur Schwartz (In Memoriam)
  • Professor Emeritus

Syntax, language and gender, language acquisition

Sandra A. Thompson
  • Research Professor Emerita

Interactional linguistics, conversation and grammar, cross-linguistic studies of morphosyntactic patterns, languages of East Asia (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hmong)

For Interactional Linguistics Bibliography, click here.

For Curriculum Vitae, click here.

sathomps@linguistics.ucsb.edu