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Lioba Moshi


Usree Bhattacharya


Paula Mellom

Dr. Mellom holds a Ph.D. in linguistics specializing in second language acquisition.  She works primarily with pre and inservice teachers to develop their ability to make academic content accessible to linguistically and culturally diverse learners. Her qualitative analysis explores the role of collaborative, conversation-based instruction in identity construction, and cognitive and linguistic development.  Her current research…


Mark Wenthe

As a lecturer, my primary responsibility is in teaching courses, spanning a range of areas from Language Contact through Typology and Historical Linguistics. My primary area of expertise is in Indo-European studies, particularly Sanskrit and Germanic linguistics. I am interested in the interaction of different linguistic modules (e.g., exploring the interplay of syntax and phonology on the position of enclitic pronouns), and in how typological…


Olga Thomason

Historical Indo-European linguistics, prepositional semantics, Slavic linguistics and folklore, acquisition of Russian by foreign and heritage language learners


Paula Schwanenflugel

vocabulary development, psychology of reading, reading prosody


Alexander Sager

Middle High German, medieval German literature of courtly love (minne), and the literary, cultural and historical/historiographic relationship between German-speaking lands and eastern Europe, primarily Hungary


Diana Ranson

Language change and variation in the Romance languages


Margaret Lubbers Quesada

Prof. Quesada's field of expertise is in second language (L2) acquisition. Her most recent research has focused on the acquisition of tense, aspect and mood, subject pronouns, and lexical datives among Spanish L2 learners. Prof. Quesada teaches graduate seminars in Romance linguistics theory and analysis, Spanish second language acquisition, the history of Spanish, and special topics in Spanish L2 acquisition, as well as various undergraduate…


Akinloye Ojo

Yoruba language and linguistics, applied linguistics and language teaching, and language, culture and society.
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