Faculty and Staff – Linguistics

Department Contacts:

Chair: Catherine Fortin (507) 222-4682
Administrative Assistant: Lisa Falconer (507) 222-5248
2025-26 Student Departmental Advisor: Anya Sytenkova
General contact: Phone: 507 222 5248

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Catherine Fortin Bio

Associate Department Chair of Cognitive Science and Linguistics
Associate Professor of Linguistics

Office: Willis Hall 407

Phone: 507 222 4682

Email: cfortin@carleton.edu

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.

Yoolim Kim Bio

Assistant Professor of Linguistics

Office: Willis Hall 415

Phone: 507 222 5835

Email: ykim6@carleton.edu

Cherlon Ussery Bio

Professor of Linguistics

Office: Willis Hall 403

Phone: 507 222 5518

Email: cussery@carleton.edu

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.