Faculty
Chris Barker
Department Chair, Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests: Semantics of natural language, philosophy of language, theory of computation.
Renée Blake
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Social & Cultural Analysis
Research Interests: Urban sociolinguistics, African American Vernacular English, languages and cultures of the Carribean.
Sam Bowman
Associate Professor of Linguistics, Data Science. and Computer Science
Research Interests: Natural language processing, artificial neural networks, computational semantics.
Lucas Champollion
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests: Formal semantics of natural language (esp. algebraic semantics).
Chris Collins
Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests: Theory of syntax, comparative syntax of African languages, English syntax, Ewe syntax, ‡Hoan syntax, Ju|'hoansi syntax, Khoisan syntax.
Ailís Cournane
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests: First language acquisition, semantics, syntax, language change.
Lisa Davidson
Silver Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests: Phonetics, laboratory and theoretical phonology, second language acquisition, variation.
Gillian Gallagher
Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests: Phonology and phonetics, Quechua.
Maria Gouskova
Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests: Phonology, morphology, lexicon.
Gregory Guy
Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests: Phonology, historical linguistics, romance linguistics, pidgin and creole studies, phonetics, sociolinguistics and sociolinguistic universals.
Stephanie Harves
Clinical Professor of Linguistics, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research Interests: Syntactic theory, Russian syntax, comparative syntax, morphology, language acquisition.
Richard S. Kayne
Silver Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests: Theoretical syntax, (micro-)comparative syntax, French/Italian syntax.
Tal Linzen
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Data Science
Research Interests: Computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational cognitive science, natural language processing.
Laurel MacKenzie
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests: Variationist sociolinguistics, dialectology, language change, varieties of English, varieties of French.
Alec Marantz
Silver Professor of Linguistics and Psychology
Research Interests: Universal grammar, syntax, morphology, language acquisition, neurolinguistics.
Liina Pylkkänen
Interim Director of Graduate Studies, Professor of Linguistics and Psychology
Research Interests: Neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, semantics, syntax, lexicon.
Juliet Stanton
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests: Phonology, typology
Anna Szabolcsi
Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests: Formal semantics, Hungarian syntax, syntax/semantics interface.
Gary Thoms
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests: Syntactic theory, (micro-)comparative syntax, Scots, Celtic linguistics, language variation and change, linguistics and literature.
Global Distinguished Professor
Philippe Schlenker
Global Distinguished Professor of Linguistics; Institut Jean Nicod
Research Interests: Semantics, Pragmatics; Philosophy of Language; Philosophical Logic; Syntax, Morphology; Sign Language Linguistics (ASL and LSF); Gesture Semantics; Music Semantics; Primate Vocalizations and Gestures.
Emeritus Faculty
Mark R. Baltin
Emeritus Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests: Syntax, nature of elliptical constructions in English, nature of predication, syntactic aspects of lexical representation.
John R. Costello (1942-2015)
Emeritus Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests: Historical linguistics, diachronic syntax, first and second language acquisition, languages in contact.
John Victor Singler
Emeritus Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests: Contact linguistics, especially creole studies; variationist sociolinguistics; African American English; Liberian languages; phonology.
Affiliated Faculty
Diogo Almeida
Assistant Professor of Psychology, NYU Abu Dhabi
Research Interests: Language processing, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics.
Sudha Arunachalam
Associate Professor, Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders
Research interests: Child language acquisition, Language processing
Adam Buchwald
Professor, Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders
Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, speech and language disorders
Sonia N. Das
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Research Interests: Linguistic anthropology, semiotics, colonial linguistics, multilingualism, heritage, language, mobility and migration, seafaring, infrastructure, Tamil migrants, South Asia, Québec, Francophonie.
Kit Fine
Silver Professor, Department of Philosophy
Research Interests: Logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language
Ralph Grishman
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Susannah Levi
Associate Professor, Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders
Research interests: acoustic phonetics, speech perception, spoken word recognition, linguistic and nonlinguistic information in speech
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
Research Interests: Semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind
Tara McAllister
Associate Professor, Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders Research Interests: Phonetic and phonological development, motor influences on phonology, ultrasound imaging of speech
Brian McElree
Professor, Department of Psychology
Research Interests: Human information processing, human memory, psycholinguistics.
Adam Meyers
Visiting Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Research Interests: Computational lexicography, predicate argument structure, machine translation and sentence alignment, corpus annotation, information extraction for technical documents.
David Poeppel
Professor, Department of Psychology
Research Interests: Human auditory cortex physiology, nerual basis of speech perception, auditory/speech psychophysics, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics.
Bambi B. Schieffelin
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Research Interests: Linguistic anthropology, language ideology, literacy, language socialization, childhood, missionization, Papua New Guinea, Caribbean.
Stephen Schiffer
Silver Professor, Department of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology.