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Pilar Chamorro's research focuses on the semantic and pragmatic contribution of temporal, aspectual, and modal expressions across languages. She is also interested in the semantics of plurals, the mass/count distinction, and quantification. She has done fieldwork on Spanish, Galician and Portuguese (Romance) since 2007, and on Malayalam (Dravidian) since 2013. Since 2015, she has been doing fieldwork  on Tenetehára (Tupi-Guarani) in Brazil…

I teach courses in sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, working primarily within the Germanic family of languages. My research seeks to better understand the social factors and typological tendencies affecting language change; and the social, economic and community factors that affect language shift, particularly in heritage communities. A large part of my research is focused on heritage languages, or: linguistic…

Mi-Ran Kim received her Ph. D. degree in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She is interested in acoustic analyses of languages.  She is also interested in native language influence on target language pronunciations.  Her publications include several articles on acoustic analyses of Korean stop consonants, approximants, and prosody of Korean words produced by English speakers.  She is…

Dr. Baker's research interests involve the nature of sound change both synchronically and diachronically and therefore attempt to shed light on the mechanisms of both dialectal variation and historical change.  He is particularly interested in the phonetics/phonology interface and how phonetically-based (and often functionalist) influences interact with systemic pressures in the evolution of grammars and phonological inventories. …

My areas of interest include pragmatics and semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive and functional linguistics, discourse reference and anaphora, discourse connectives/markers, and pragmatic variation in Spanish and English. My research has focused on the pragmatic and cognitive motivations influencing native Spanish speakers' and L2 Spanish learners' use of referring expressions (NPs, pronouns, null subjects), the influence of cognitive and…

Vera Lee-Schoenfeld is primarily a theoretical linguist with a research focus on German syntax. Her early work on constructions involving possessor datives and the distribution of reflexive and non-reflexive pronouns in sentences with embedded infinitive clauses and other clause-like phrases was published in her book Beyond Coherence: The Syntax of Opacity in German (2007). In more recent work, she has been investigating the syntax-…