Department Contacts:
- Chair: Catherine Fortin (507) 222-4682
- Administrative Assistant: Lisa Falconer (507) 222-5248
- 2024-25 Student Departmental Advisors: Maurice Broadus and Sarah Raman
- General contact: Phone: 507 222 5248 / Fax: 507 222 5821
Chair
Chair of Linguistics
Cati Fortin received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan in 2007. Her research, guided by the tenets of generative syntactic inquiry, falls into two main areas: ellipsis and other empirical phenomena situated at the interface of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse, including nonsententials (a.k.a. sentence ‘fragments’), and the syntax and morphosyntax of Indonesian and closely related Austronesian languages, including Minangkabau.
Faculty
Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Cherlon Ussery received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2009. Cherlon’s research focuses on syntax and the syntax-morphology interface. Cherlon’s current research focuses on a cross-linguistic comparison of case and agreement patterns, with a particular emphasis on Icelandic. To learn more about Cherlon’s research, please visit her webpage.
Staff
Administrative Assistant in Environmental Studies
Administrative Assistant in Linguistics
Administrative Assistant to the Director of the Cowling Arboretum
Emeriti Faculty
