Faculty
![]() |
Dani Byrd, Professor of Linguistics
Phone: (213)740-2444 Email: dbyrd@college.usc.edu |
![]() |
Sandra Disner, Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Linguistics
Phone: (213)740-3884 Email: sdisner@usc.edu |
| Louis Goldstein, Professor of Linguistics
Research Areas: Phonetics Speech Production Articulatory Modeling Dynamical Models Phone: (213)821-4150 Email: louisgol@usc.edu |
|
![]() |
Elena Guerzoni, Associate Professor of Linguistics
Research Areas: Formal Semantics, formal Pragmatics and the interactions between Semantics and Pragmatics and between Syntax and Semantics Phone: (213)740-4462 Email: guerzoni@usc.edu |
![]() |
James Higginbotham, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics and Linda Hilf Chair in Philosophy
Research Areas: Philosophy of Language & Mind, Philosophical logic, Theoretical Linguistics Phone: (213)821-2308 Email: higgy@usc.edu |
![]() |
Hajime Hoji, Associate Professor of Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Language faculty science as an exact science, hypothesis testing and methodology in generative grammar, philosophy of science and generative grammar, Japanese syntax Phone: (213)740-3882 Email: hoji@usc.edu |
![]() |
Khalil Iskarous, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Phone: (213)740-9197 Email: kiskarou@usc.edu |
![]() |
Karen Jesney, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Phone: (213)740-3884 Email: jesney@usc.edu |
| Elsi Kaiser, Associate Professor of Linguistics
Phone: (213)821-4151 Email: emkaiser@usc.edu |
|
![]() |
Audrey Li, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Linguistics
Research Areas: Syntax, Chinese language and linguistics Phone: (213)740-3717 Email: audreyli@usc.edu |
![]() |
Shrikanth Narayanan, Andrew Viterbi Professor of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics and Psychology
Phone: (213)740-6432 Email: shri@sipi.usc.edu |
| Roumyana Pancheva, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Phone: (213)821-1221 Email: pancheva@usc.edu |
|
| Barry Schein, Associate Professor of Linguistics
Phone: (213)740-3885 Email: schein@usc.edu |
|
![]() |
Andrew Simpson, Professor of Linguistics & East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Comparative syntax of East Asian, Southeast Asian, and South Asian languages: Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Burmese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Hindi, Bengali. Phone: (213)740-3640 Email: andrew.simpson@usc.edu |
![]() |
Rachel Walker, Professor of Linguistics
Research Areas: Phonology, phonetics, morphology Phone: (213)740-3674 Email: rwalker@usc.edu |
| Maria Zubizarreta, Professor of Linguistics
Phone: (213)740-3887 Email: zubizarr@usc.edu |
|
![]() |
Bruce Zuckerman, Myron and Marian Casden Director and Professor of Religion and Linguistics
Phone: (213)740-3405 Email: bzuckerm@college.usc.edu |
- Chair: James Higginbotham
- 3601 Watt Way
- Grace Ford Salvatori 301
- Los Angeles, CA 90089-1693
- Phone: (213) 740 - 2986
- Email: lingdept@usc.edu


















