Faculty
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Jürgen Bohnemeyer, (jb77@buffalo.edu) Associate Professor Office: 642 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-0127 Ph.D. Tilburg University, The Netherlands Semantic typology, conceptual and formal semantics, the syntax-semantics interface, the semantics-pragmatics interface, linguistic anthropology, Mesoamerican languages |
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Rui Chaves, (rchaves@buffalo.edu) Assistant Professor Office: 604 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-0133 Ph.D. University of Lisbon Syntax, constraint-based grammar, human language processing, formal semantics, underspecification, and grammar implementation |
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Matthew S. Dryer, (dryer@buffalo.edu) Professor Office: 616 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-0122 Ph.D., University of Michigan Typology, Syntax, Discourse-Pragmatics, and American Indian Languages (especially Kutenai) |
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David Fertig, (fertig@buffalo.edu) Associate Professor Office: 638 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-0129 Ph.D., University of Michigan Germanic Linguistics, Historical linguistics, Dialectology, Sociolinguistics, Morphology, and Phonology |
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Jeff Good, (jcgood@buffalo.edu) Assistant Professor Office: 613 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-0126 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Syntax, Morphology, Historical Linguistics, Typology, Niger-Congo Languages, Computer-assisted Linguistics |
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Robert Hoeing, (rghoeing@buffalo.edu) Associate Professor Office: 639 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-0130 Ph.D., Indiana University German Syntax, Syntactic Theory, and Business German |
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Tsan Huang, (thuang3@buffalo.edu) Assistant Professor Office: 614 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-0121 Ph.D., Ohio State University Phonetics, speech perception, and Chinese linguistics |
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Jeri J. Jaeger, (jjaeger@buffalo.edu) Professor Office: 618 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-0123 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, and Language Acquisition |
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Jean-Pierre Koenig, (jpkoenig@buffalo.edu) Professor Chair Office: 612 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-8482 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Syntax, Semantics, Psycholinguistics |
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EunHee Lee (ehlee@buffalo.edu) Assistant Professor Office: 623 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-0125 Ph.D., The University of Groningen (The Netherlands) Korean Linguistics, Semantics |
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Madeleine Mathiot (mathiotm@buffalo.edu) Professor Emeritus Office: 611 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-0119 Ph.D., Catholic University of America Field Linguistics, Ethnosemantics, Lexicology, Semiotics, and Discourse |
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Karin Michelson, (kmich@buffalo.edu) Professor On Sabbatical Fall 2011 Office: 602 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-2463 Ph.D., Harvard University Iroquoian Languages, Phonology, Morphology, Lexical Semantics, Historical Linguistics, and Field Linguistics |
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Douglas Roland, (droland@buffalo.edu) Assistant Professor Office: 605 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-0116 Ph.D. University of Colorado Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Psycholinguistics |
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Mitsuaki Shimojo, (shimojo@buffalo.edu) Associate Professor Office: 640 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-0131 Ph.D., University at Buffalo Japanese linguistics, syntax, and discourse |
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Leonard Talmy, (talmy@buffalo.edu) Professor Emeritus Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Cognitive Semantics, and Typology and Universals |
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Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., (vanvalin@buffalo.edu) Professor Office: 627 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-0115 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Syntax, Language Acquisition, Lakhota, and Yatee Zapotec |
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Wolfgang Wölck, (wwolck@acsu.buffalo.edu) Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus Office: 629 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-0128 D.Phil., University of Frankfurt Diglossia, Bilingualism, and Sociolinguistics |
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David A. Zubin, (linzubin@acsu.buffalo.edu) Associate Professor Office: 610 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-0118 Ph.D., Columbia University Categorization Theory, Typology, and Discourse |
Affiliated Faculty
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Janina Brutt-Griffler, (bruttg@buffalo.edu) Professor of Foreign Language Education Director of Polish Studies Office: 432 Baird Hall Phone: (716) 645-0664 Ph.D., The Ohio State University Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, World Englishes |
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Paul Luce, (luce@buffalo.edu) Professor of Psychology Ph.D., Indiana University |
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Gail Mauner, (mauner@buffalo.edu) Associate Professor of Psychology Ph.D., University of Rochester |
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William
Rapaport, (rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu) Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D., Indiana University |
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Jim Sawusch, (jsawusch@buffalo.edu) Professor of Psychology Ph.D., Indiana University |
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Stuart Shapiro,
(shapiro@cse.buffalo.edu) Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D., University of Wisconsin |
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Roger Woodard, (rwoodard@buffalo.edu) Andrew V. V. Raymond Professor of Classics Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |

















