Linguistics

Alana Johns

Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Science

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

Areas of Expertise

• Endangered languages
• Inuktitut
• language maintenance
• Lexical semantics
• Morphology
• syntax

Office: 416-978-1761
Email: ajohns@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Alexei Kochetov

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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

Areas of Expertise

• Phonetics
• Phonology
• Speech science

Office: 416-946-3808
Languages: Russian
Website
Email: al.kochetov@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ana Perez-Leroux

Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Faculty of Arts and Science

Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Science

Director, Cognitive Science Program

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Linguistics
  • Spanish and Portuguese

Areas of Expertise

• Bilingualism
• Child language acquisition
• Romance languages
• Second language acquisition
• Spanish syntax

Office: 416-585-4439
Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese
Email: at.perez.leroux@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Arsalan Kahnemuyipour

Associate Professor, Department of Language Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics

• Campus
  • St. George
  • U of T Mississauga
• Department
  • French
  • Linguistics

Areas of Expertise

• Morphology (word structure)
• Persian language
• Persian linguistics
• Syntax – Sentence Structure

Office: 905-828-5497
Languages: Persian
Email: a.kahnemuyipour@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Diane Massam

Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Science

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

Areas of Expertise

• Niuean grammar
• Theoretical Linguistics

Office: 416-978-1766
Languages: French
Website
Email: diane.massam@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Elizabeth Cowper

Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Science

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

Areas of Expertise

• English grammar
• Linguistic theory
• Syntax and morphology

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

Jack Chambers

Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• 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

Jeffrey Steele

Associate Professor, Department of French, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • French
  • Linguistics

Areas of Expertise

• Foreign accent
• French as a second language
• Language ability assessment
• Second language acquisition

Office: 416-926-1300, ext.3352
Home: 416-924-3049
Languages: French
Website
Email: jeffrey.steele@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Juvénal Ndayiragije

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Humanities (UTSC)
  • Linguistics

Areas of Expertise

• Comparative syntax (African Languages)
• Linguistic theory

Office: 416-287-7135
Home: 905-201-6978
Languages: French, Kirundi
Email: juvenal@utsc.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Keren Rice

Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Science

Chair, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Science

Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives

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

Areas of Expertise

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

Office: 416-978-1763
Languages: Dene (Athabaskan)
Email: rice@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

María Cristina Cuervo

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Science

Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Faculty of Arts and Science

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

Areas of Expertise

• Grammar
• Linguistics
• Second language acquisition
• Spanish

Office: 416-813-4051
Languages: Spanish
Website
Email: mc.cuervo@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Naomi Nagy

Associate Professor, Department of French, Faculty of Arts and Science

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
  • School of Graduate Studies
• Department
  • French
  • Linguistics

Areas of Expertise

• Faetar (a Francoprovençal dialect)
• New England English
• Phonetics
• Sociolinguistics
• Variation and change in heritage languages in Toronto

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

Robert Binnick

Professor Emeritus

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Linguistics

Areas of Expertise

• Manchu language
• Mongolian language
• Tense and verbal aspect

Office: 416-978-4029
Email: binnick@utsc.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Suzi Lima

Assistant Professor

• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Linguistics

Areas of Expertise

• Brazilian indegenous languages
• Language acquisition
• Language documentation
• Linguistics
• semantics

Office: 416-978-6373
Languages: Portuguese, English
Website
Email: suzi.lima@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online