News Highlights
- Gabriela Pérez Báez has been appointed as Research Curator in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
- Jeff Good has received a $319,725 from the National Science Foundation for field work and documentation of the areal dynamics of seven languages spoken in the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon.
- Jürgen Bohnemeyer has been appointed an Associate Editor of the journal Language.
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Introduction to the Department
The Department of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo offers training in a broad range of sub-disciplines of linguistics. Students benefit from the faculty's research specializations in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonetics, phonology, as well as language typology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, and historical and contact linguistics. Areas of particular strength are:
- Syntactic and semantic typology;
- Semantics, including lexical/conceptual and formal approaches, and pragmatics;
- Field-based language documentation and description (particularly of languages of the Americas, Africa, and New Guinea);
- Psycholinguistics (including corpus-based, experimental, and computational modeling research);