UMass Amherst


Current faculty

Bhatt, Rajesh
Associate Professor

Syntax, semantics, Indo-Aryan, computational linguistics
(413) 577-0797
Office: South College 224
Cable, Seth
Assistant Professor

Syntax, Semantics, Variation, Tlingit
413-577-0797
Office: 227 South College
Dillon, Brian
Assistant Professor

Psycholinguistics
(413) 577-4198
South College 314; Lab: Bartlett 11
Frazier, Lyn
Professor

Psycholinguistics, semantics, syntax
(413) 545-6827
Office: South College 315
Green, Lisa
Professor

African American English, syntax, Semantics
577-0937
Office: South College 310
Harris, Alice
Professor

Historical linguistics, morphology, typology
(413) 577-0938
Office: 131 South College
Hartman, Jeremy
Assistant Professor

Language Acquisition

on leave until Spring 2013
Johnson, Kyle
Professor
Undergraduate Advisor
Personnel Committee Chair

Syntax
(413) 545-6840
Office: South College 124
Kingston, John
Professor

Phonology, phonetics
(413) 545-6833/-6837
Office: South College 312, Bartlett 6
Kratzer, Angelika
Professor

Semantics, syntax
(413) 545-6829
Office: South College 309
McCarthy, John
Distinguished University Professor; Special Assistant to the Provost

Phonology, morphology
(413) 545-5220
Office: Goodell 514, phone: 413-545-5271 (As of June 1: Acting Dean of the Graduate School; As of September 1: Vice-Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate School)
Oiry, Magda
Lecturer

Language acquisition, French syntax

Partee, Barbara H.
Distinguished University Professor Emerita, Linguistics and Philosophy

Semantics, syntax, logic, cognitive science
413-545-6832
Office: South College 306 (in residence fall semester)
Pater, Joe
Professor
Graduate Program Director

Phonology, acquisition
(413) 577-1308
Office: South College 122
Roeper, Thomas
Professor

Language acquisition
(413) 545-6834
Office: South College 218
Selkirk, Elisabeth
Professor Emerita

Phonology, prosody, interfaces of phonology with syntax, semantics
(413) 545-6831
Office: South College 106
Speas, Margaret
Professor
Head of Department

Syntax, typology, morphology, linguistics and education
(413) 545-6835
Office: South College 220
Woolford, Ellen
Professor

Syntax, typology
(413) 545-6841
Office: South College 133
Yu, Kristine
Assistant Professor

Phonetics, phonology, prosody, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, acquisition

on leave until September 2012

Visiting faculty

Becker, Michael
Visiting Assistant Professor

Phonology

Frana, Ilaria
Visiting Assistant Professor

Semantics

Pycha, Anne
Visiting Assistant Professor

Phonetics, phonology
413-545-6826
Office: 313 South College
Stephenson, Tamina
Visiting Assistant Professor

Semantics


Emeritus faculty

Bach, Emmon
Professor Emeritus

Syntax, semantics

Freeman, Donald C.
Founding Head of Department

Poetics

Higgins, F. Roger
Associate Professor Emeritus

Syntax, historical linguistics

Partee, Barbara H.
Distinguished University Professor Emerita, Linguistics and Philosophy

Semantics, syntax, logic, cognitive science
413-545-6832
Office: South College 306 (in residence fall semester)
Selkirk, Elisabeth
Professor Emerita

Phonology, prosody, interfaces of phonology with syntax, semantics
(413) 545-6831
Office: South College 106

Adjunct faculty

Amaral, Luiz
Assistant Professor, Hispanic Linguistics

Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ICALL), Second Language Acquisition, and Syntax
(413) 545-4790
Office: Herter Hall 404
Borschev, Vladimir


formal language theory, formal and lexical semantics

Freeman, Donald C.
Founding Head of Department

Poetics

Potts, Christopher
Associate Professor, Linguistics (Stanford)

Pragmatics, semantics, computation

Rothstein, Robert
Professor of Judaic and Slavic Studies and of Comparative Literature

Slavic and Yiddish linguistics
(413) 545-0894
Office: Herter 741
Sanders, Lisa
Associate Professor, Psychology

Selective auditory attention in speech processing
(413) 545-5962
Office: Tobin 429
Staub, Adrian
Assistant Professor, Psychology

Psycholinguistics

Velleman, Shelley
Chair, Communication Sciences and Disorders (UVermont)

Acquisition and disorders of phonology


Allied faculty

Bolozky, Shmuel
Professor, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies

Modern Hebrew phonology and morphology
(413) 545-6780
Bricker, Phillip
Professor, Department of Philosophy

Philosophy of Language
(413) 545-5785
Office: 356 Bartlett Hall
Cathey, James E.
Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Germanic phonology, Finnish phonology
(413) 545-2350
de Villiers, Jill
Professor, Department of Psychology, Smith College

Language acquisition
(413) 585-3907
Feinstein, Mark
Professor of Linguistics, Hampshire College

Animal vocalization, cognition, and behavior

Adele Simmons Hall 206 Mail Code CS Hampshire College 893 West Street Amherst, MA 01002
Freyman, Richard
Professor, Department of Communication Disorders

Hearing
(413) 545-0298
Klement, Kevin C.
Assistant Professor

Logic, syntax
(413) 545-5784
Office: 353 Bartlett Hall
Wallace, Rex
Professor, Department of Classics

Italic and Etruscan linguistics
(413) 545-5779
Weisler, Steven
Professor of Linguistics, Hampshire College

Semantics
(413) 559-6844