Linguistics
Faculty
Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina
Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics
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B.A. (English) 2002 Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine; M.A. (English and French) 2004 Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine; ABD State University of New York at Stony Brook; Reed College 2009-.
Teaching and Research: Syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, experimental phonology, sentence prosody, acoustic phonetics, psycholinguistics, Slavic and comparative linguistics.
Stephen E.D. Hibbard
Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics
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B.A. 1989 Boston University; M.A. (Social Sciences) 1992 University of Chicago; Currently ABD University of Chicago; Reed College 2005–.
Teaching: Steve teaches courses in socio-cultural and historical linguistics, including language in society, discourse, language and politics, historical linguistics, and dialects of English; under the rubric of advanced linguistics, he has taught the phonetics, phonology, and pragmatics of prosody, and is scheduled to teach a class on the history of linguistic theory in Spring, 2008.
Research: Steve's research is located at the intersection of anthropology, sociolinguistics, and semiotic theory. He is currently completing his doctoral thesis at the University of Chicago's Joint Degree Program in Anthropology and Linguistics. Based on two years of ethnographic and linguistic fieldwork among the Tatra Highlanders in Podhale, Poland, Steve's thesis proposes a distinctly semiotic-anthropological critique of the nations and nationalisms literature, and elaborates elements of an empirically rigorous approach to ideologically-driven language change. Current and future projects include a study of word-level accent in several West Slavic varieties, as well as programmatic research into the application of semiotic theory to the analysis of the structure and function of linguistic prosody.
Matt Pearson
Associate Professor of Linguistics
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B.A. 1992 Reed College. M.A. 1996, Ph.D. 2000 University of California, Los Angeles. Reed College 2001–.
Teaching: Matt teaches courses in a variety of subjects relating to formal analysis, including syntactic theory and description, typology and language universals, phonology, morphology, field methods, the syntax-semantics interface, historical linguistics, and the structure of Austronesian languages.
Research: Matt’s research focuses on the morpho-syntax of Malagasy (Merina dialect), an Austronesian language spoken on the island of Madagascar. Topics which he has investigated include word order variation; topic, focus, and the structure of the left periphery; argument structure and its relationship to verbal aspect and verb morphology; double object and applicative constructions; tense and aspect; and constraints on A-bar extraction.