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
 
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