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Barbara Fox

Professor Emerita
Linguistics
Barbara Fox received her PhD in Linguistics from UCLA in 1984. Her research explores the mutual shaping relationship between grammar and usage, especially within face-to-face interaction. Her work reveals the importance of action and interaction to grammatical choice, and highlights the role of the body in constructing utterances. It also calls for an extraordinarily dynamic, and embodied, model of grammar. During her career at CU, Dr. Fox taught courses in...
Zygmunt Frajzyngier

Zygmunt Frajzyngier

Professor Emeritus
Linguistics
Zygmunt Frajzyngier’s main interests and areas in which he published books and scholarly papers include: foundations of syntax and semantics in cross-linguistic perspective; typological explanations in grammar; grammaticalization; Chadic and Afroasiatic linguistics, and descriptive grammars and dictionaries of Chadic languages. His early work was on Awutu, a Kwa language. He is the author, co-author and editor of 25 books, one lexical data base, and over 120 papers. His work has...
Lise Menn

Lise Menn

Professor Emerita
Lise Menn is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Having been part of the Department of Linguistics since 1986, she has served as a professor of linguistics, a faculty fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science, and Associate Editor of the journal Aphasiology . In 1976 she received her PhD in Linguistics in from the University of Illinois, Urbana, specializing in the emergence of language in...
David Rood

David Rood

Professor Emeritus
An undergraduate German major at Cornell, David Rood received his PhD in Linguistics from Berkeley in 1969. He has been a faculty member at CU since 1967, teaching at the University of Cologne, Germany, 1998-1999. He was managing editor of the International Journal of American Linguistics (U. Chicago Press) for over 20 years. His primary research is the documentation of two endangered Native American languages, Wichita (Caddoan family, now spoken...
Maria Thomas-Ruzic

Maria Thomas-Ruzic

Senior Instructor Emerita
Maria (Mia) Thomas-Ruzic received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Colorado in 1998. Her career in English language teaching and teacher preparation in the US and abroad has spanned four decades. Mia’s research interests include instructional talk, uses of discourse tools by teachers, professional and adult development, and learning/teaching in higher education. She established, directed and taught in both the Professional MA track in TESOL (Teaching English to...