UNM Department of Linguistics

Meet Our Graduate Students

Catie Berkenfield is a Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics. Her interests include language and gender, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis. Her recent work focuses on the notion of embodiment in language acquisition and metaphor theory, especially how critical and interdisciplinary perspectives on embodiment inform linguistic methodology and models. Catie's dissertation topic is "Constructing Gender and Ethnicity through Discourse Patterns: Sports Commentary in U.S. Professional Basketball and the Athlete as Social Subject."

James MacFarlane is a doctoral candidate in Linguistics. His research program focuses on the storage and processing of morphology and phonology in American Sign Language (ASL). He is currently working on a psycholinguistic investigation of the mental representation of classifier predicates in ASL as part of his doctoral dissertation. For more information please see his homepage.

We have more than 40 graduate students in linguistics. More bio information will be posted as it becomes available.