University of Manitoba - Faculty of Arts - Linguistics - People
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Research faculty

Jila GHOMESHI (BA York; MA, PhD Toronto)
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Syntax, morphology, syntax-pragmatics interface, Persian
 
Robert HAGIWARA (BA Washington; MA, PhD UCLA)
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Phonetic theory, acoustic phonetics, segmental and prosodic variation, individual and group variation; English, Lushootseed (Salishan), Garifuna (Arawakan)
 
Terry JANZEN (BEd Saskatchewan, MA Manitoba, PhD New Mexico)
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ASL morphology and syntax, grammaticization, discourse pragmatics, ASL/English interpretation; ASL, signed languages
 
Lorna A MacDONALD (BA Trent, MA Calgary, PhD Manitoba)
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Functional syntax, language universals, typology, first language acquisition; Tauya, Papuan languages
 
Moshe NAHIR (BA Bar-Ilan; MA, PhD Pittsburgh)
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Sociolinguistics, language planning, applied linguistics; modern Hebrew [Linguistics/Hebrew Language]
 
David H PENTLAND (BA Manitoba; MA, PhD Toronto)
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Historical and comparative linguistics, dialectology, philological methods, language and culture, prehistory; Algonquian, Indoeuropean, Métchif [Linguistics/Anthropology]
 
Kevin RUSSELL (BSc Manitoba; MA, PhD USC)
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Phonology, morphology, computational modelling, narrative analysis; Cree, Dakota, ASL
 
Erin WILKINSON (BA Wellesley, MA Gallaudet, PhD New Mexico)
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Signed language linguistics, cognitive-functional linguistics, language typology
 
H C WOLFART (BA[equiv] Freiburg, MA Cornell, PhD Yale)
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Text-based analysis, history of linguistics, oral literature; Cree, Algonquian, Latin, Low Alemanic

Senior scholar

William D WADE (BA, MA, PhD Colorado)
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Physical anthroplogy, human evolution, evolution of language

Staff

Deborah SPINDLER
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Department Administrator
 
Sherra HALL
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ASL-English Interpreter
 

Graduate Students

Ghder ALBADAWI
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Morphosyntax, adjective clauses in Arabic sentences (MA;JG)
 
Mohammed AL-LUHAYBI
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General lingustics (preMA;RH)
 
Mohammad AL-OMARI
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Cognitive linguistics, syntax, phonology, second language acquisition, Arabic (PhD;JG)
 
Viktoria BOKOVA
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Phonetics, phonology, discourse phonology, pragmatics, Ukrainian, Russian, English (PhdD;KR/RH)
 
Sharareh ESMAEILI
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Second language acquisition, bilingualism, morphosyntax, syntax, child language acquisition (PhD;JG)
 
Brenna HAIMES KUSUMOTO
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Biilingualism and language contact, phonology, phonetics, sign language linguistics, sociolinguistics (PhD;KR/EW)
 
Khashayar (Kay) HAMIDZADEH
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Discourse; discourse markers (MA;TJ)
 
Dareth HAWES
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ASL, SignWriting (MA;TJ)
 
Peter LAWFORD
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Phonology of signed languages, computational linguistics (MA;KR)
 
Yifan LIU
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Mandarin chinese, semantics, syntax, pragmatics (MA;DHP)
 
Trang Thu NGUYEN
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Cognitive linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, ASL (PhD;EW)
 
Shinjung PARK
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Phonology, bilingualism, loanword phonology, phonology-syntax interface (PhD;KR)
 
Shannon PRICE
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Phonology, phonetics, language variation, information theory (MA;KR)
 
Mahdi RAHIMIAN
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Bilingualism, cognitive aspects of language acquisition (MA+;MN)
 
Meera SAHAWNEH
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Syntax, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics (PhD;JG)
 
Jesse STEWART
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Phonology, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Historical Linguistics, Media Lengua, Quichua and Romance Languages (PhD;KR)
 
Flávia STOCCO
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Morphology, phonology, second language acquisition, bilingualism (MA;JG)
 
Bill TREDWAY
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Ojibwe, phonetics, morphology, syntax, particles (MA;RH)
 
Hoda ZARE
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Clinical linguistics, omputational linguistics, language acquisition, semantics, information structure (MA+;KR)
 
ZHAO Jia Jing
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Syntax, spoken language interpretation, Chinese (MA;TJ)