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Director, Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics. Verb argument structure, semantic typology, language and cognition, anthropological linguistics, child language and cultural socialization, ideologies of symbolic representation, Mayan linguistics, spontaneous sign languages. Philosophy of mind and language, emphasizing pragmatic approaches to issues concerning linguistic meaning, reference, truth, and propositional attitudes. West African descriptive linguistics and folklore. Historical and comparative Romance linguistics, especially historical syntax, dialectology, Spanish and Portuguese syntax, Relational Grammar.