The linguistics faculty offers a wide range of research strengths—including syntactic theory, socio-cultural linguistics, computational and psycholinguistics, phonetics/phonology and language documentation—ensuring that students can gain both versatility and expertise in an array of subfields. 

Our educational mission is to provide students with insight into the fundamental design features of language—its sound patterns, its word- and sentence formation devices, its semantic structure—and to create awareness of language varieties: the diversity of human languages, the role of language as an index of social identity and the ontogenetic and historical development of language.