People

Linguistics Faculty

Gideon Rosen, Director
Stuart Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Council of the Humanities
grosen@princeton.edu

Leonard H. Babby
morphosyntax, Slavic linguistics, syntactic theory, Turkish
babbylh@princeton.edu

Robert  Freidin
syntax and semantics; language and memory; history of linguistics

freidin@princeton.edu

Lisa Green
founding director of the University of Massachusetts Center for the Study of African American English and author of an important book on that topic. As Old Dominion Fellow in Linguistics this fall, she is teaching a course on linguistic variation: how dialects and languages can be analyzed, and how children learn the linguistic variations in their speech communities.
lg3@princeton.edu

Adele Goldberg
constructions (syntax/semantics/information structure), language acquisition, categorization, language processing)
website: http://www.princeton.edu/~adele
adele@princeton.edu

Joshua T. Katz, Director
historical and comparative linguistics; Indo-European studies
website: http://www.princeton.edu/~classics/faculty/katz.html
jtkatz@princeton.edu

Edwin Williams
syntax, semantics and morphology
edwin@princeton.edu

Interdepartmental Committee

Leonard H. Babby, Slavic Languages and Literatures
David M. Bellos, French and Italian, Comparative Literature
Robert P. Ebert, German
Delia Graff Fara, Philosophy
Michael G. Fara, Philosophy
Robert A. Freidin, Council of the Humanities
Adele Goldberg, Council of the Humanities
Gilbert H. Harman, Philosophy
Joshua T. Katz, Classics
Sarah-Jane Leslie, Philosophy
Daniel N. Osherson, Psychology
Gideon A. Rosen, Philosophy, Council of the Humanities, ex officio
Edwin S. Williams III, Council of the Humanities

Sits with Committee

Christiane Fellbaum, Computer Science

Visiting Fellow 2008-2009

Christopher Tancredi
The Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Keio University
Tokyo, Japan

Visiting Fellows 2009-2010

Lisa Green
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director, Center for the Study of African American Language, UMass, Amherst.  Council of the Humanities Old Dominion Fellow

Morris Halle
Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus), MIT.  Council of the Humanities Whitney J. Oates Short-term Fellow

Program Manager

Peggy Reilly

Contact Information

Program in Linguistics
206 Scheide Caldwell
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
609-258-4086
fax: 609-258-6866
linguist@princeton.edu