People

Professors Emeriti & Retired Faculty

Barron Brainerd

Mathematical linguistics

Edward N. Burstynsky (1935-2007)

Historical linguistics, Romance languages

H.A. Gleason, Jr. (1917-2007)

Theoretical linguistics

Deborah M. James

Language and gender, Algonquian, semantics

Peter A. Reich

psycholinguistics, language acquisition, cognitive science

William J. Samarin

Anthropology

Tuppil Venkatacharya

Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit grammatical studies

Ronald Wardhaugh

English linguistics, sociolinguistics