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Ling Sun


Alexandra Pfiffner


Joshua Bousquette

I teach courses primarily in sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics, working primarily within the Germanic family of languages. My research seeks to better understand the social factors and typological tendencies affecting language change; and the social, economic and community factors that affect language shift, particularly in heritage communities. A large part of my research is focused on heritage languages, or:…


Tianming Liu


Madeline Gilbert


Ryan Ka Yau Lai


Javad Anjum

Javad Anjum is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education at the University of Georgia. He worked as a physician in India and pursued clinical research in Neurophysiology at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences. He then completed an MEd in Educational Research and Evaluation and a PhD in Speech-Language Science, both from the Ohio University. Javad specializes in semantics and…


Aaron Rubin

Aaron Rubin joined the Department of Religion in 2023. Prior to coming to UGA, he taught for 19 years of at Penn State University. He teaches courses on biblical and rabbinic literature, Biblical Hebrew, and, when in demand, Arabic, Aramaic, Classical Ethiopic (Ge'ez), Comparative Semitics, and Yiddish. He conducts research and has published on all periods of Hebrew, Aramaic, Modern South Arabian, Ethiopic, Comparative Semitic linguistics, and…


Dustin Alfonso Chacón

The core question of my research is: How does the brain – an organ that is virtually the same across the species – manage to learn, use, and understand languages – which can be very different? Much of this research uses behavioral and electrophysiological (EEG/MEG) techniques to investigate how language users understand words and sentences moment-by-moment. This research is guided by insights from theoretical syntax/semantics, cognitive…


David Chiesa

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