News Highlights
- Matthew Dryer recieved a $262,229 NSF grant for field work and documentation of four languages of Papua New Guinea.
- Jürgen Bohnemeyer received a $250,000 NSF grant for work on spatial language and cognition in Mesoamerica.
- Roger Woodard received the Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006 award for his book "Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages".
- Jeff Good has been the recipient of two recent NEH grants under the Documenting Endangered Languages program.
- Heike Lehnert received an NIH postdoctoral fellowship for the Center for Language Sciences at the U of R.
- Jenn Cornish received the Raymond H. Stetson Scholarship in Phonetics and Speech Sciences (for 2006), awarded by Acoustical Society of America.
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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);