Linguistics

Alana Johns

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Linguistics

Areas of Expertise

• Inuktitut
• language maintenance
• Lexical semantics
• Linguistic theory
• Morphology
• syntax

Office: 416-978-4029
Website
Email: ajohns@chass.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Diane Massam

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Linguistics

Areas of Expertise

• Niuean grammar
• Theoretical Linguistics

Office: (416) 978-4029
Languages: French
Website
Email: diane.massam@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Elizabeth Cowper

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Linguistics

Areas of Expertise

• English grammar
• Grammatical features and contrast
• Linguistic theory
• Morphosyntactic features of nominals and clauses
• Semantics
• Syntactic change
• Syntactic theory
• Syntax and morphology
• Syntax-semantics interface
• Tense and aspect
• Tense, mood and aspect

Office: 416-978-4029
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: elizabeth.cowper@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jack Chambers

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Linguistics

Areas of Expertise

• Canadian English
• Dialects
• Jazz
• Social and legal uses of language
• Sociolinguistics

Office: 416-978-1764
Website
Email: jack.chambers@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Keren Rice

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Linguistics
• Centres
  • Centre for Aboriginal Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Indigenous languages
• Language revitalization
• Morphology (word formation)
• Phonology
• Phonology (sound systems)

Office: +1 (416) 978-1763
Languages: English,Chipewyan; Dene Suline
Website
Email: rice@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Naomi Nagy

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Linguistics

Areas of Expertise

• Faetar (a Franco-Provençal dialect)
• Heritage Languages
• Language Contact
• New England English
• Phonetics
• Sociolinguistics
• Variation and change in heritage languages in Toronto

Office: 416-978-1767
Languages: English,French,Italian,Spanish; Castilian,Portuguese
Website
Email: naomi.nagy@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online