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Sherman Wilcox
Department of Linguistics
Humanities 112
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1196

505-277-6353 (voice/TTY)
505-277-6355 (fax)

Staff

Nancy Montoya, Linguistics Department Administrator
Felisha Herrera, Administrative Assistant
Yumi Watanabe, Interpreting Program Administrative Assistant


For information please contact linguist@unm.edu

Faculty

Melissa Axelrod, Ph.D., University of Colorado (Boulder)
Native American languages, morphosyntax, semantics, morphology, sociolinguistics

Garland D. Bills (Emeritus), Ph.D., University of Texas (Austin)
Sociolinguistics, Southwest Spanish-English bilingualism, Spanish linguistics, Quechua

Joan L. Bybee, (Emerita), Ph.D., University of California (Los Angeles)
Phonology, morphology, typology and universals, language change, grammaticization

William Croft (from January 2006), Ph.D., Stanford University
Typology and universals, construction grammar, semantics, cognitive linguistics, language change

Larry P. Gorbet, Ph.D., University of California (San Diego)
Cognitive linguistics, syntax and semantics, Native American languages of the Southwest

Eduardo Hernández Chávez (Emeritus), Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Bilingualism and language maintenance, Chicano Spanish, phonology

Alan J. Hudson (Emeritus), Ph.D., Yeshiva University
Societal multilingualism, variation theory, Irish and Welsh

Vera P. John-Steiner, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, bilingualism, productive and creative thinking, cross-cultural education, women's issues

George Luger (Adjunct, Computer Science), Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Computational linguistics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence

Jill P. Morford, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Psycholinguistics, language acquisition, homesign systems and signed languages

Karen Naughton, Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Signed languages, semantics, gesture

Bonnie J. Rudy, M.A., California State University Northridge
Signed languages, deaf culture and history, ASL literature

Barbara Shaffer, Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Signed language linguistics, modality, language acquisition and interpreting theory

Caroline L. Smith, Ph.D., Yale University
Phonetics, phonology, dynamics of speech production, French linguistics

Catherine Travis, Ph.D., La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Functional syntax, discourse analysis, semantics, Hispanic linguistics

Phyllis Perrin Wilcox, Ph.D., University of New Mexico
American Sign Language (ASL), metaphor, interpreting theory and practice

Sherman Wilcox, Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Signed language linguistics, language and gesture, language evolution, cognitive iconicity, interpreting theory,

Roseann S. Willink, M.A., University of New Mexico
Navajo language

Robert W. Young, (Emeritus), Honorary LL.D., University of New Mexico
Navajo linguistics, Navajo dictionary