Faculty and Staff
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Core Faculty
Clinical Assistant Professor; American Sign Language Program Director
Department of Linguistics
611 Baldy Hall
Email: abyrne@buffalo.edu
Director of Graduate Studies; Professor
Specialties: Semantic typology, Conceptual and Formal Semantics, the Syntax-Semantics Interface, the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, Linguistic Anthropology, Mesoamerican Languages
Associate Professor
Specialties: Syntax, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Constraint-Based Grammar, Long-Distance Dependencies, Coordination, Experimental Syntax, and Grammar Implementation
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Acoustic and Articulatory Phonetics, Corpus Phonetics, Phonology, Lexical Tone, Prosody, Fieldwork, and Oto-Manguean Languages
Associate Professor
Specialties: Germanic Linguistics, Historical linguistics, Dialectology, Sociolinguistics, Morphology, and Phonology
Department Chair; Professor
Specialties: Morphosyntactic typology, Niger-Congo languages, Language documentation
Director of Undergraduate Studies; Associate Professor
Specialties: German Syntax, Syntactic Theory, and Business German
Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialties: Korean Language, Race and Ethnicity, Identity, Multicultural Education, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Second Language Acquisition, Translation and Interpretation
Associate Professor
Specialties: Semantics and Pragmatics, Second Language Acquisition, Korean Linguistics.
Clinical Assistant Professor; Director of Chinese Program
Specialties: Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Animation Studies, Chinese-English Translation
Professor
Specialties: Iroquoian Languages, Phonology, Morphology, Lexical Semantics, Historical Linguistics, and Field Linguistics
Associate Professor; Director of Japanese Program, Director of Undergraduate Studies for Asian Studies
Specialties: Japanese linguistics, Syntax, and Discourse
Emeritus Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Specialties: Typology, Syntax, Documentation (especially Papuan languages)
Professor Emeritus
Specialties: Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, and Language Acquisition
Email: jjaeger@buffalo.edu
Professor Emeritus
Specialties: Field Linguistics, Ethnosemantics, Lexicology, Semiotics, Discourse
Email: talmy@buffalo.edu
Distinguished Service Professor Emertitus
Specialties: Diglossia, Bilingualism, and Sociolinguistics
Associate Professor Emeritus
Specialties: Categorization Theory, Typology, and Discourse
Email: linzubin@acsu.buffalo.edu
Affiliated Faculty
Postdoctoral Researchers
Lea Brown
Postdoctoral Researcher
Email: plbrown2@buffalo.edu
Postdoctoral Researcher
Specialties: Language documentation, Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Multilingualism, Indo-Aryan languages, Anthropology of Central-West Africa.
Email: pierpaol@buffalo.edu
Full-Time Lecturers
Akemi Isselbaecher
Full-Time Lecturer (Japanese)
Department of Linguistics
Xuehong Lu
Full-Time Lecturer (Chinese)
Department of Linguistics
Valentina Sanders
Full-Time Lecturer (Russian)
Department of Linguistics
Adjunct Lecturers
Chihiro Aoki
Adjunct Lecturer (Japanese)
Department of Linguistics
444 Baldy Hall
Email: chihiroa@buffalo.edu
Mindy Brightman
Adjunct Lecturer (ASL)
Department of Linguistics
606 Baldy Hall
Email: mindybri@buffalo.edu
Yoshiko Connolly
Adjunct Lecturer (Japanese)
Department of Linguistics
444 Baldy
Email: yuc@buffalo.edu
Sigrid Fertig
Adjunct Lecturer (German)
Department of Linguistics
456 Baldy
Email: sfertig@buffalo.edu
Vandana Iyer
Adjunct Lecturer (Hindi)
Department of Linguistics
444 Baldy
Email: vb4@buffalo.edu
Toshie Kenney
Adjunct Lecturer (Japanese)
Department of Linguistics
444 Baldy
Email: toshieke@buffalo.edu
Na Li
Adjunct Lecturer (Chinese)
Department of Linguistics
456 Baldy
Email: nli23@buffalo.edu
Danuta Nycz-Nakamura
Adjunct Lecturer (Polish)
Department of Linguistics
456 Baldy
Email: Nycz@buffalo.edu
Yukako Otsuki
Adjunct Lecturer (Japanese)
Department of Linguistics
444 Baldy
Email: yukakoot@buffalo.edu
Stefanos Papazaharias
Adjunct Lecturer (Greek)
Department of Linguistics
Issa Roustum
Adjunct Lecturer (Arabic)
Department of Linguistics
456 Baldy
Email: roustum@buffalo.edu
Yongbo Tian
Adjunct Lecturer (Chinese)
Department of Linguistics
456 Baldy
Email: ytian2@buffalo.edu
Jayme Williams
Adjunct Lecturer (ASL)
Department of Linguistics
606 Baldy
Email: jaymemal@buffalo.edu
Administrative Staff
Ann Richards
Assistant to the Chair
Department of Linguistics
Jodi L. Reiner
Department/Graduate Secretary
Department of Linguistics