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Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics

Faculty in Linguistics

Amy Dahlstrom: Syntax, discourse structure, LFG, Algonquian
Anastasia Giannakidou: Semantics, syntax, pragmatics, Greek
Chris Kennedy: Semantics, syntax, pragmatics, language processing and acquisition
Jason Merchant: Syntax, morphology, semantics, Germanic
Salikoko Mufwene: Syntax, semantics, morphosyntax, creole languages
Jerry Sadock: Morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, Germanic and Greenlandic Eskimo
Michael Silverstein: Linguistic anthropology, semiotics, language and cognition

Faculty in other departments

Susan Goldin-Meadow (Psychology): Language acquisition
Boaz Keysar (Psychology): Pragmatics, reasoning
John Lucy (Committee on Human Development): Language, culture, and thought, Mayan languages
Partha Niyogi (Computer Science): Computational models of language acquisition and evolution
Terry Regier (Psychology): Acquisition of semantics, language and thought
Josef Stern (Philosophy): Philosophy of language and linguistics, reference