• Howard I. Aronson

Professor. Depts. Slavic Lang.& Lit. and Linguistics; Director Cmte. Balkan & Slavic Studies.
E-mail: hia5@midway.uchicago.edu.
Phone: (773) 702-7734
Mr. Aronson is interested in verbal categories, Georgian, Russian, Yiddish, and South Slavic languages.
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1961. At Chicago since 1962.
 
• Amy Dahlstrom

Associate Professor. Department of Linguistics.
E-mail: a-dahlstrom@uchicago.edu.
Phone: (773) 702-8530
Ms. Dahlstrom works on American Indian languages, especially Algonquian languages. She is also involved in work on Lexical Functional Grammar and discourse structure.
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1986. At Chicago since 1989.
 
• Bill J. Darden

Professor. Departments of Slavic Languages & Literatures and Linguistics.
E-mail: b-darden@uchicago.edu.
Phone: (773) 702-4015
Mr. Darden works on historical and synchronic phonology, especially in Balto-Slavic and Indo-European more generally.
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1973. At Chicago since 1972.
 
• Victor Friedman

Professor. Dept. Slavic Lang. & Lit., Hum. Coll. Div., Chrmn. Dept. Slavic Lang. & Lit.
E-mail: v-friedman@uchicago.edu.
Phone: (773) 702-0732
Mr. Friedman does Balkan linguistics (especially Macedonian and Romani), and Caucasian linguistics.
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1975. At Chicago since 1992.
 
• Sean Fulop

Visiting Assistant Professor.Department of Linguistics.
E-mail: sfulop@uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-8528
Mr. Fulop is a phonetician and computational linguist (focusing on simulation of learning).
Ph.D., UCLA 1999. At Chicago since September 2000.
 
• Susan Gal

Professor. Depts. of Anthropology, Linguistics, and the College.
E-mail: s-gal@uchicago.edu.
Phone: (773) 702-2551
Ms. Gal's specializations are in the role of language in culture and society, in gender theory, and in language issues in Eastern Europe.
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1976. At Chicago since October 1994.
 
• Anastasia Giannakidou

Visiting Assistant Professor. Department of Linguistics.
E-mail: For now, use giannaki@let.rug.nl.
Phone: (773) 702-8525 (Effective July 2001)
Ms. Giannakidou works on formal semantics, syntax, and their interface, with emphasis on Greek, Germanic, and Romance.
Ph.D., University of Groningen, 1997. Starts at Chicago in July 2001.
 
• John Goldsmith

Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor. Dept. Linguistics, Hum. Coll. Div.
E-mail: ja-goldsmith@uchicago.edu.
Phone: (773) 702-8525
Mr. Goldsmith is concerned with phonological theory, computational issues in phonology, Bantu languages, ASL, and French.
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976. At Chicago since 1984.
 
• Gene Gragg

Professor. Depts. NELC and Linguistics, Oriental Inst., Hum. Coll. Div.; Undergrad. Couns. NELC.
E-mail: gbgg@midway.uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-9514
Mr. Gragg is interested morphological theory, computational linguistics, and Afroasiatic historical linguistics (emphasis on Semitic and Cushitic languages).
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1966. At Chicago since 1969.
 
• Karen Landahl

Associate Professor. Dept. Linguistics, Hum. Coll. Div.; Acad. Dir. Lang. Labs and Archives. (on administrative leave during academic years 2000-2002.)
E-mail: kllc@midway.uchicago.edu.
Phone: (773) 702-8527
Ms. Landahl is interested in phonetics, language acquisition, and the effects of anatomical anomalies on speech patterns.
Ph.D., Brown University, 1982. At Chicago since 1982.
 
• David McNeill

Professor. Depts. Psychology (Cognition & Cmctn. Dvlpmtl Psychology) and Linguistics, Soc. Sci. Coll.
E-mail: dmcn@ccp.uchicago.edu.
Phone: (773)702-8833
Mr. McNeill studies psycholinguistics, the relationship between language, gesture, thought, and the planning of linguistic behavior.
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1962. At Chicago since 1969.
 
• Jason Merchant

Assistant Professor. Department of Linguistics.
E-mail: merchant@.uchicago.edu.
Mr. Merchant does syntax and language typology, with particular interests in English, Dutch, German, and Greek.
Phone: (773) 702-8523
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz, 1999. At Chicago since 2001.
 
• Salikoko S. Mufwene

Professor and Chair. Dept. Linguistics, Hum. Coll. Div.
E-mail: s-mufwene@uchicago.edu.
Phone: (773) 702-8531
Mr. Mufwene studies creole language varieties and African-American English (especially their genesis and structures), syntax and semantics, lexicography, and Bantu morphosyntax.
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1979. At Chicago since January 1992.
 
• Jerrold M. Sadock

Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor Dept. Linguistics, Hum. Coll. Div. Undergrad. Couns. Linguistics.
E-mail: j-sadock@uchicago.edu.
Phone: (773) 702-8526
Mr. Sadock works on autolexical grammar and the interaction of morphology, syntax, and semantics, Germanic languages, and Greenlandic Eskimo.
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana, 1969. At Chicago since 1969.
 
• Michael Silverstein

Samuel N. Harper Professor. Depts. Anthropology, Linguistics, and Psychology (Cognition & Cmctn.), Cmtes Ideas & Methods and General Studies Humanities.
E-mail: m-silverstein@uchicago.edu.
Phone: (773) 702-7713
Mr. Silverstein works on American Indian languages, Australian languages, cultural semiotics, and cognition.
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1972. At Chicago since 1971.

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