Here you'll find information about ...

• research faculty
• adjunct faculty
• professor emeritus
• senior scholars
• staff
• graduate students

Research faculty

Sunyoung AHN (PhD Maryland)
email

          Second language acquisition, bilingualism, psycholinguistics, emotions in second language processing, heritage language development, age effects in language acquisition and attrition, Korean

Julie DONER (BA York; MA, PhD Toronto)
email; webpage;
          Comparative and theoretical syntax, clausal structure, subjecthood, verb-initial languages.

Jila GHOMESHI (BA York; MA, PhD Toronto)
email; webpage; 

Syntax, morphology, syntax-pragmatics interface, Persian
 

Robert HAGIWARA (BA Washington; MA, PhD UCLA)
email; webpage; 204-474-6998

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)
email; webpage; 204-474-7081 

ASL morphology and syntax, grammaticization, discourse pragmatics, ASL/English interpretation; ASL, signed languages
 

Verónica LOUREIRO-RODRIGUEZ (BA Universidade de Santiago de Compostela; MA Colorado-Boulder; PhD California-Davis)
email; webpage; 204-474-9463

Sociolinguistics, Hispanic and Galician sociolinguistics, language and identity, code switching, Galician hip-hop
 

Will OXFORD (BA, MA Memorial; PhD Toronto)
email; webpage; 204-474-9623

Syntactic theory, phonological theory, Algonquian linguistics, language documentation
 

Nicole ROSEN, Department Head (BA, Queen's University; MA/PhD University of Toronto)
email; webpage; 204-474-9288

Areas of specialization: language contact, sociolinguistics, language revitalization, sociophonetics, Canadian English, Michif language and linguistics, Canadian French
 

Kevin RUSSELL (BSc Manitoba; MA, PhD USC)
email; webpage; 204-474-9620

Phonology, morphology, computational modelling, narrative analysis; Cree, Dakota, ASL

Adjunct Faculty 

Ivan Roksandic webpage

Erin Wilkinson webpage

Professor emeritus

Moshe NAHIR (BA Bar-Ilan; MA, PhD Pittsburgh)
email; webpage

Sociolinguistics, language planning, applied linguistics; modern Hebrew
No longer accepting graduate students.

H C WOLFART (BA[equiv] Freiburg, MA Cornell, PhD Yale)
email

Text-based analysis, history of linguistics, oral literature; Cree, Algonquian, Latin, Low Alemanic
 

Senior scholar

N/A
 

Staff

Heather CHERPAKO
email; 204-474-9596

Department Administrator
 

Graduate students

Chantale CENERINI
email

Michif (PhD; NR)

Alice COATES
        (PhD; VLR)

Tasheney FRANCIS
        (PhD; TJ)

 

Khashayar (Kay) HAMIDZADEH
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Psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, computational linguistics, Persian, Guarani (PhD;KR)  
 

Kemi KOLAPO

          (PhD; TJ)

Connor MARK

          (MA; JG)

Kuntala PARAMA
email
          Sociolinguistics (MA; VLR)

Michele PESCH-JOHNSON
          Sociolinguistics (PhD; NR)

Tiffany PRIEB
        Algonquian (MA; WO)

Iuliia REZVUKHINA
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Sociolinguistics, regional linguistics, lexicology (PhD; NR)

Maria RODRIGO TAMARIT
        Sociolinguistics (PhD; VLR)

Trevor SIE
email
        Cognitive linguistics, Spanish, Bilingualism (MA; TJ) 

Morteza TAVAKOLI AALLAH ABADI
        (MA; TJ)

Vivian XU
email
        Algonquian language (PhD; WO)