Faculty

Jonathan David Bobaljik

bobaljik@fas.harvard.edu

Chair, Department of Linguistics

Professor of Linguistics

Research interests: Morphology, syntax, endangered languages, Germanic, Slavic, Arctic Languages

Tanya Bondarenko

tbondarenko@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Linguistics

Director, the WOLF Lab

Research interests: Syntax, semantics, fieldwork; language families: Algonquian, Altaic (Turkic, Mongolic), Kartvelian, Slavic

Gennaro Chierchia

chierch@fas.harvard.edu

Haas Foundations Professor of Linguistics

Research interests: Semantics, syntax/semantics mapping, pragmatics, philosophy of language, the interface of semantics with language development, language pathology, language processing

Frances Conlin

francesconlin@fas.harvard.edu

Senior Preceptor, Amercan Sign Language Program

Dr. Conlin is the Director of the American Sign Language Program at Harvard.

Kathryn Davidson

kathryndavidson@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Linguistics

Research interests: Semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition, sign languages, experimental methods, language and cognition

Kathryn Franich

kfranich@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Linguistics

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Director, PhonLab

Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, prosody, tone, experimental methods, fieldwork, African languages

Jay Jasanoff

jasanoff@fas.harvard.edu

Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology, Emeritus

Research interests: Indo-European and general historical linguistics, historical linguistics of individual Indo-European branches (Indo-Iranian, Anatolian Hittite, Greek, Italic, Celtic, Tocharian, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Armenian, Albanian)