Faculty


  • Linguistics Faculty

ANDERSON, Victoria (UCLA) vanderso at hawaii dot edu -- phonetics-phonology interface; phonetic and phonological universals; prosody; endangered and underdocumented languages of Australia and Austronesia; speech technology

BERGEN, Benjamin K. (Berkeley) bergen at hawaii dot edu -- cognitive linguistics; psycholinguistics; computational linguistics; Embodied Construction Grammar; phonaesthemes; deixis; French; native Esperanto

BLEY-VROMAN, Robert [SLS] (Washington) vroman at hawaii dot edu -- applied linguistics; syntax; second language acquisition theory; computational linguistics; natural language processing; corpus linguistics; and machine translation.

NOTE: Those interested in working primarily on second language acquisition with Professor Bley-Vroman should direct their applications to the Department of Second Language Studies, where he is also a member of the Graduate Faculty.

BLUST, Robert A. (U Hawai‘i) blust at hawaii dot edu -- historical linguistics; Austronesian linguistics and cultural history; field methods; lexicography; endangered and underdocumented languages

COOK, Haruko M. (USC) hkcook at hawaii dot edu -- Japanese linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics

DEEN, Kamil Ud (UCLA) kamil at hawaii dot edu -- language acquisition, morphosyntax, Bantu languages; second language acquisition

DONEGAN, Patricia J. (Ohio State) donegan at hawaii dot edu -- phonology and phonetics; vowel systems; acquisition, variation, change, typology; Austroasiatic languages, language documentation

DRAGER, Katie K. (Canterbury) kdrager at hawaii dot edu -- sociophonetics; language and identity; psycholinguistics; speech perception; acoustic phonetics; laboratory phonology; language revitalization

HAIG, John [EALL] (Harvard) haig at hawaiid dot edu -- Japanese linguistics

LEE, P. Gregory (Ohio State) lee at hawaii dot edu -- theoretical linguistics; phonology; syntax; computer applications

LEE, Patricia A. (Ohio State) pal at hawaii dot edu -- linguistic theory; formal linguistics; syntax and semantics; pragmatics

O'GRADY, William (Chicago) ogrady at hawaii dot edu -- syntactic theory and description; language acquisition; Korean; assessment of language strength

OTSUKA, Yuko (Oxford) yotsuka at hawaii dot edu -- syntax, Minimalist Program; Tongan and Polynesian languages; endangered and underdocumented languages and language planning in Polynesia

PETERS, Ann M. (Wisconsin) ann at hawaii dot edu -- language acquisition: prosody, emergence of grammatical morphemes, crosslinguistic issues

REHG, Kenneth L. (U Hawai‘i) rehg at hawaii dot edu -- phonology; Micronesian linguistics; lexicography; endangered and underdocumented languages; language contact and language planning, vernacular language education

SCHAFER, Amy J. (U Mass.) aschafer at hawaii dot edu -- sentence comprehension and production across languages (including Korean, Japanese, and Austronesian languages), sentence prosody, information structure, psycholinguistic approaches to language documentation and conservation


SCHWARTZ, Bonnie D. (SLS)--Linguistic theory and second language acquisition, Universal Grammar, Child SLA

NOTE: Those interested in working primarily on second language acquisition with Professor Schwartz should direct their applications to the Department of Second Language Studies, where she is also a member of the Graduate Faculty.

SOHN, Ho-Min [EALL] (U Hawai‘i) homin at hawaii dot edu -- Korean linguistics, grammaticalization

THIEBERGER, Nicholas (Melbourne) nick dot thieberger at hawaii dot edu -- Australian languages, Vanuatu languages, language documentation, linguistic data curation, software for linguistic fieldwork and data management

VOVIN, Alexander [EALL] (St. Petersburg) vovin at hawaii dot edu -- East Asian and Central Asian historical-comparative and descriptive linguistics; Japanese, Korean, Ainu, and Manchu-Tungusic.

 

  • Cooperating Faculty

BROWN, J. D. (SLS)--language learning and teaching, language testing

DRECHSEL, Emanuel J. (Interdisciplinary Studies)--ethnolinguistics; American Indian languages

HIGGINS, Christina M. (SLS)--marcro- and micro- sociolinguistics, qualitative research methods, conversational analysis, code-switching

HOONCHAMLONG, Yuphaphann (IPLL)--Thai linguistics (syntax, discourse, semantics), Tai/Thai dialectology, language learning and teaching, internet technology in language research and language instruction, translation

KASPER, Gabriele (SLS)--second language curriculum, discourse analysis, interlanguage pragmatics

LI, Ying-Che (EALL)--Chinese linguistics, semantics, language learning and teaching

SAK-HUMPHRY, Chhany (IPLL)--Khmer language, linguistics and literature

SCHMIDT, Richard W. (SLS)--psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language learning and teaching

SERAFIM, Leon A. (EALL)--Japanese linguistics, historical linguistics, phonology, Ryukyu dialects

SILVA, Noenoe K. (POLS)--Hawaiian politics, indigenous politics

WARNER, Sam L. (IPLL)--Hawaiian language, Hawaiian language immersion education, curriculum development and second-language acquisition, educational psychology

 

  • Affiliate and Adjunct Faculty

CHOO, Miho--Korean

COOK, Kenneth (Hawaii Pacific University) --cognitive and relational grammar; Polynesian languages, especially Samoan

GRIMES, Joseph--theory of lexicon, discourse, language divergence

HARRISON, Sheldon P. (University of Western Australia)--Oceanic Linguistics

MEYERHOFF, Miriam (University of Edinburgh)--sociolinguistics, creoles

NAKAMURA-BIGUS, Michiko--psycholinguistics, especially sentence processing in Japanese

 

  • Emeriti and Retired Faculty

BENDER, Byron W.--general linguistics; morphology; Micronesian linguistics

BICKERTON, Derek--language variation; pidgins and creoles; language and literature

FORMAN, Michael L. (Cornell) -- general linguistics; ethnographic linguistics; Philippine studies, language documentation

GRACE, George W.--historical linguistics; Austronesian, especially Melanesian linguistics; ethnolinguisitcs

JACOBS, Roderick A.--Syntax and syntactic change; English, Oceanic, and American Indian linguistics; discourse grammar and applied linguistics

LYOVIN, Anatole --historical linguistics, language typology and Sino-Tibetan

REID, Lawrence A. --Austronesian, especially Philippine and Formosan languages; lexicography, morphosyntactic reconstruction

SCHUTZ, Albert J.--descriptive linguistics, field methods, lexicography; Fijian and other Melanesian languages; Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages; history of linguistics in the Pacific

STAMPE, David --computational linguistics, phonology and prosody, holistic typology and drift, Munda languages

  • Linguistics 102 Instructors

Jin Sun Choe

Hee Yeoung Dennison 

Toshiaki Furukawa

James Hafford

Amanda Hamilton

Karen Huang

Sang Gu Kang

Elaine Lau 

On-Soon Lee

Daniel Rasband

Hiroko Sato

Laura Viana

Julia Wieting

Department Updates

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NEW Fall 2009 Linguistics course availibility.

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