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Descriptive and documentary linguistics; phonology; syntax; historical linguistics
Typology, historical linguistics and language change, quantitative methods, voice systems, person marking
sociocultural linguistics; linguistic anthropology; Mixtec languages (especially in California); linguistics and social justice; Indigenous language reclamation, maintenance, and documentation; diaspora linguistics; the linguistic construction of ethnoracial and gendered identities; educational linguistics and linguistics outreach; language and social power
Language revitalization; minoritized languages; endangered languages; language documentation; Languages of French Polynesia; Native American Languages; Romance Languages; Germanic Languages (Frisian); Basque; Phonology; Phonetic Variation; Minoritized Languages and (Social) Media; Minoritized Language Translation.
Corpus Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics; Discourse and Grammar; Sociocultural Linguistics; Critical Discourse Analysis; Quantitative Methods; Tunisian Arabic
Language documentation, revitalization, and reclamation; community-based frameworks and methodologies; applied linguistics; Numu (Northern Paiute); Austronesian languages; language contact; sociophonetics of World Englishes; morphosyntax; language and identity
Historical and comparative linguistics; computational linguistics; language change and contact; lexicostatistics; biological methods in linguistics; computational cladistics; Icelandic (North Germanic); Zapotec languages (Oto-Manguean); linguistics in literary analysis
Sociocultural linguistics, linguistic anthropology, race, identity, power, online discourse and multimodality, activism on social media, humor, African American language and culture, diversity discourses in higher education
Historical linguistics/language change, case systems, Siberian languages (esp. Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
Language documentation, description and revitalization; typology; complex adaptive systems; emergent grammar; modality/modal-evidential systems; voice; argument-marking systems; Austronesian/Formosan linguistics; Chinese linguistics
Phonetics; prosody; second language acquisition; L2 prosody; speech production and perception; articulatory phonology
phonetics and phonology; languages of the Caucasus; historical linguistics; documentation
Indigenous languages of the Americas; language documentation; language revitalization; morphosyntax; spatial semantics; localist semantics; Na-Dene; Tlingit; Cariban languages; languages of Oregon; languages of California; languages of Washington
Sociocultural linguistics; transgender linguistics; language, gender, and sexuality; identity formation and communication
Caribbean Spanish, dialectology, emoji use & interpretation, language contact & change, sociocultural linguistics, Spanglish, and virtual language
language endangerment, description, documentation, and revitalization; space in language, culture, and cognition; typology; and Amazonian languages
phonology, typology, metaphor, fieldwork, language description and documentation, Uyghur, Turkic languages, Chinese
Sociocultural linguistics; linguistic anthropology; language and gender; sociophonetics; prosody and affect; language documentation, description, and revitalization; Eskimo-Aleut languages
Sociocultural linguistics; linguistic anthropology; language, gender, and sexuality; Korean-Latinx relations in Los Angeles; Koreans in Mexico; Mexican Spanish; youth language and culture; language and race; language, music (K-pop, hip hop), and identity
Language Documentation and Description; Oto-Manguean languages; Mixtec in California; Kashaya Pomo; Digital Linguistics; Linguistics and Technology; Community-Based Linguistics
language documentation, description, and revitalization; typology; economics and praxeology of language; Chitimacha and the Gulf languages; Swahili, Ekegusii and East African languages
Corpus-based linguistics, variationist typology, experimental morphosyntax, quantitative methods in linguistics (mixed-effect models, Bayesian hierarchical modelling, bootstrap, discrete time series), discourse and grammar, morphosyntactic alternations, reference tracking, parts of speech, Sino-Tibetan languages (esp. of China and Nepal), prosody and syntax, phonotactics
Sociocultural linguistics; language, gender, and sexuality; identity and intersectionality; methodology; language change; and linguistic ideologies
Sociocultural linguistics, talk in interaction, language and power, language and identity, youth language, applied linguistics, multilingualism, second language acquisition
sociocultural linguistics; race and racialization; language, gender, and sexuality; african-american language; black feminist theory; community-centered ethnography; performance; pedagogy; genre theory; linguistic terrain.
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Sociocultural Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Political Discourse; African American Language and Culture; Educational Linguistics, Linguistics Anthropology
Language documentation and revitalization, integrative functionalism, functional intra-genetic and extra-genetic typology, morphology and syntax, competing motivations approach, clause linkage, reference-tracking mechanisms, grammatical relations, valency-changing operations, language processing, grammaticalization, Uto-Aztecan languages, language acquisition
Language documentation and revitalization; community linguistics; language and identity; language, gender, and sexuality; discourse; tone; Mixteco; Mandarin Chinese; drag queen language
Referential pragmatics, discourse, grammatical theory, semantics, computational-quantitative approaches to linguistics (NLU, ASR, corpus linguistics, semantic modeling) sociocultural linguistics and sociolinguistics; philosophies and histories of linguistics, cognitive science; honorification in Korean and Sinitic, anaphora in Archaic Chinese and Mandarin, logophoricity in Kwa languages, "discourse particles" cross-linguistically, linguistic pragmatics of gaslighting, reference-tracking in Southern Min, reference-tracking in African American English; history of African American English
Linguistic description and theory, syntax, morphology, typology, historical linguistics, cognitive linguistics, language documentation, Papuan linguistics, Bitur (Trans-New Guinea), Abom (unknown), K’ichee’ (Mayan)
Language documentation and description, Ende, Pahoturi River languages, Papuan languages, information structure, discourse, language contact, multilingualism
Phonology; morphosyntax; language documentation and description; languages of the greater Himalayan region; Tibeto-Burman; Yonghe Qiang; historical linguistics; quantitative methodologies
Languages of Central Asia (Kazakh) and Southern Siberia (Buryat), syntax, linguistic anthropology, direct reported speech, interactional linguistics
phonetics and phonology; Optimality Theory; Japanese; Kansai dialect; prosody; pitch accent; second language acquisition
Language documentation, description, and revitalization, applied linguistics, sociocultural linguistics, language ideologies, language and identity, language acquisition, community based linguistics, Native American languages, in particular Zuni
Language documentation, description, and revitalization; phonetics; phonology; prosody; morphology; syntax; historical linguistics; clause chaining; Amazonian languages; Shiwilu (Kawapanan); Peruvian Amazonian Spanish
Language documentation and description; typology; morphology; syntax; Cognitive Linguistics; construction grammar; languages of Siberia; Evenki
Language, gender, and sexuality; language and bisexuality; language and power; language, perception, cognition, and memory; Japanese linguistics; Ryukyuan languages; Ozark English
Language chang; language documentation and description; revitalization of understudied and endangered Native American languages, including the Barbareño Chumash language; second language acquisition; linguistic anthropology
Research interests: language documentation and description; Abawiri (Lakes Plain); Enggano (Austronesian); phonology; morphosyntax; discourse; language vitality in Indonesia
Cognitive, functional, & usage-based approaches to grammar; typology; lexical semantics; information structure; phonetics, phonology, & prosody; language documentation & revitalization; language & music; Austronesian languages of Taiwan & the Philippines; Inuit languages
Co-speech gestures; language and grammar; corpus linguistics; computational linguistics; psycholinguistics; second language acquisition; lexical typology; Slavic languages