L I N G U I S T I C S @
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Rutgers is a center of work in Optimality Theory, in both syntax and phonology, and hosts a group of syntacticians pursuing the Minimalist Program. The semantics faculty have strong interests in the syntax-semantics interface and in the formal-semantic issues raised by the structure of non-Western languages.

Faculty interests branch out to connect with cognitive science; the psychology of language, especially language acquisition; the philosophy of language and mind; and computational linguistics, especially learning and parsing. Language specialties include Romance, Germanic, South Asian (especially Hindi), Benue-Congo (esp. Yoruba), Edo, Amerindian (esp. Mohawk), Hebrew, Haitian, Greenlandic, and Slavic.

The graduate program, now in its fifth year, has some 20 students, of strikingly diverse backgrounds and with a very wide range of linguistic interests. Each year, the department is enriched by a number of scholarly visitors: currently, their specialties include language acquisition, phonological theory, formal semantics, and computational linguistics. A rotating faculty position, supported by the university, guarantees fresh input from first-rate outside researchers.

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