Linguistics

Alana Johns

Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & 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 & 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, University of Toronto St. George campus

• Department
  • Language Studies
  • Linguistics

Areas of Expertise

• Iranian languages
• Morphology (word structure)
• Persian language
• 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 & 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 & 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

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

Karen McCrindle

Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning,

Director, Centre for Teaching and Learning,

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Language Studies

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • French
  • Linguistics
• Centres
  • Centre for Teaching and Learning (UTSC)

Areas of Expertise

• Pidgins and Creoles
• Sociolinguistics (Media and language)
• Teaching and learning

Office: 416-287-7138
Languages: French
Email: k.mccrindle@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 & 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 & 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

Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Science

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

Professor, Department of French, Faculty of Arts and Science

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

Areas of Expertise

• Faetar (a Francoprovençal dialect)
• Heritage Languages
• Language Contact
• 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 & 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