Department of Linguistics
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Faculty Emeriti
Emeriti status is an honorary title awarded for distinguished service to the academic community. The President may bestow the title on a tenured faculty member or on an administrator who is entering permanent retirement and who has served the University with distinction. Bestowal of emeritus status is a distinctive honor, and emeriti faculty are regarded as an important and integral part of the university community.
- English as a second language reading
 - English grammar
 - Language attitude
 - Peace education
 - Email - Barbara Birch
 
- History of the English language
 - History of English linguistics
 - Language variation
 
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language
 - Applied English Linguistics
 
- Discourse analysis
 - Functional syntax
 - Pragmatics
 - Language change
 - Finnish linguistics
 
- L2 reading and writing
 - TESL methodology
 - TESL materials development
 - Ellen Lipp Email
 
- Analysis of linguistic variation
 - Stylistics
 - Spanish Linguistics
 - Corpus Linguistics
 - Forensic Linguistics
 
- Language acquisition (first and second language and gender)
 - Applied linguistics (teaching of English grammar, spelling and reading)
 - Historical Linguistics (sub-Saharan languages especially southern African languages)
 - History of English
 - Email - Karen Mistry
 
- Syntax
 - Indic Linguistics
 - Sanskrit
 
- Sociolinguistics
 - Japanese linguistics
 - Discourse analysis
 
- Syntax
 - Persian language
 - Email Vida Samlian
 
- Phonetics
 
- Phonetics
 - Phonology
 - Syntax
 - Historical linguistics
 - Hebrew and Semitic linguistics