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Akan (Twi)

Erika Eichholzer : eeichholzer@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Vocabulary
Syntax
Literature
Teaching material

Albanian

Alexander Murzaku amurzaku@cse.edu

Areas of expertise:

Natural language processing
Corpus linguistics
Lexicology
Lexicography
Morphology
Language teaching and language acquisition
Sociolinguistics

Enkelena Shockett (Qafleshi) : enkelena@yahoo.com Areas of expertise:

Socialist realism
Albanian Modernist Writers
Translated Albanian literature
Albanian Grammar
Teaching materials

Arabic

Karima Benremouga : kbenremouga@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Modern Standard Arabic
Syntax
Vocabulary
Teaching material
Algerian, Egyptian and Gulf dialects

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com

Areas of expertise:

Regional dialects of Arabic (esp. dialects in the Gulf region)
Arabization / adaptation of foreign terms (esp. technology, industry)

ASL (American Sign Language)

Claude E. Mauk : cemauk@pitt.edu

Areas of expertise:

Phonetics
Phonology
Sociolinguistics

Assyrian

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com

Azeri

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com

Baluch

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com

Basque

Brad Williams : bwill17@gmail.com

Belarusian

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials
Translation
Sociolinguistics
Structure
Syntax
Vocabulary

Bosnian

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials
Translation
Sociolinguistics
Structure
Syntax
Vocabulary

Danko Sipka : Danko.Sipka@asu.edu

Areas of expertise:

Lexicology
Lexicography
Morphology
Natural language processing
Language teaching and language acquisition
Historical linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics

A Zoran Star?evi? : zoranstar@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Language teaching and language acquisition
Learning and teaching materials
Curriculum
Translation
Sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Historical linguistics
Structure
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Vocabulary
Language politics

Braj Bhasha

Ali Taqi : ali@taqi.org

Areas of expertise:

Teaching Materials
History
Literature

Breton

Steve Hewitt : s.hewitt@unesco.org

Bulgarian

Tsvetelina Yordanova : yordanovats@hotmail.com

Areas of expertise:

Language history and use
Comparative and historical linguistics
Vocabulary; colloquial speech & slang
Grammar
History, literature and culture
Folklore
Translation

Burmese

John Okell: jo@soas.ac.uk

Justin Watkins : justin.watkins@soas.ac.uk

Catalan

Antoni Brosa : abrosa@pie.xtec.es

Areas of expertise:

Syntax
Morphology
Phonetics
Vocabulary

Llorenç Comajoan : lcomajoa@middlebury.edu

Areas of expertise:

Second Language Acquisition
Catalan and Spanish Linguistics
http://cr.middlebury.edu/catalan/

Cebuano

Marina Hamoy: cebuano_tagalog@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Language teaching/pedagogy
Culture orientation
Verb morphology
Pronunciation
OPI using the ILR scale
Insular dialects of Cebuano
Available teaching materials
Reading materials
Curriculum/materials development
Program design/development
Translation

Chamorro

Katherine Aguon : kbaguon@ite.net

Areas of expertise:

Available teaching materials

Chinese-Mandarin

Mitchell B. Brewer : mitch269@aol.com

Tae-Jin Kim Buehrer : tjbhrr@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Vocabulary
Metalinguistic development
Second language acquisition

Li-Jen Kuo : lijenkuo.niu@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:

Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Vocabulary
Metalinguistic development

Y.C. Li : yli@sec.lang.hawaii.edu

Zhenyi Li : zheli@itu.cc.jyu.fi

Other dialects:

Shanghainese Suzhou (Suchow)
Hangzhou (Hangchow)

Scott McGinnis : scott.g.mcginnis4.civ@mail.mil

Areas of expertise:

Second language acquisition
Language pedagogy
Language testing
Program design

Tiberiu Weisz : kaifengstones@yahoo.com

Weiping Wu : wwpclc@cuhk.edu.hk

Other dialects:

Southern Fukiense (Minnan, Chaouzhou)
Cantonese

Bu Yuan : yuan_bu@hotmail.com

Croatian

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials
Translation
Sociolinguistics
Structure
Syntax
Vocabulary

Danko Sipka : Danko.Sipka@asu.edu

Areas of expertise:

Lexicology
Lexicography
Morphology
Natural language processing
Language teaching and language acquisition
Historical linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics

A Zoran Star?evi? : zoranstar@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Language teaching and language acquisition
Learning and teaching materials
Curriculum
Translation
Sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Historical linguistics
Structure
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Language politics

Danish

Michael Walker : mcwalker@hotmail.com

Dari

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com

Druze

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com

Dutch

Antonius Broos : tonbroos@umich.edu

Grada Schadee : gradars@globalxs.nl

Estonian

Anne Tamm : anne_tamm@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Semantics, especially tense-aspect-mood
Morphology especially case marking, partitive
Lexicon
Teaching material
Computational applications (lexical databases, lexicography, speech synthesis)
Language contact, change, variation
http://www.dipfilmod.unifi.it/CMpro-v-p-184.html

Ewondo

(Beti-Bulu-Fang Group, Cameroon)

Erika Eichholzer : eeichholzer@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Vocabulary
Syntax
Literature
Teaching material

Fante

Kwesi Addae : ADFNA@aol.com

Areas of expertise:

Vocabulary
Grammar
Syntax
Teaching material

Finnish

Tiina Haapakoski : tiina.haapakoski@utoronto.ca

Areas of expertise:

Morphology
Syntax
Dialects
Etymology
Vocabulary
Available teaching material

Daniel Karvonen : karvo001@umn.edu

Areas of expertise:

Teaching Finnish as a second language
Phonology
Phonetics
Morphology
Etymology
Pronunciation

Johanna Laakso : johanna.laakso@univie.ac.at

Areas of expertise:

Structure, history and origins of Finnish
Historical-comparative analysis of Finno-Ugric lannguages

Börje Vähämäki : borje.vahamaki@utoronto.ca

Areas of expertise:

Syntax
Morphology
Pronunciation
History of Finnish
Linguistic approaches to Finnish

Galician

Kathleen March : Kathleen_March@umit.maine.edu

Georgian

Mr. Kim Braithwaite : kbtrans@cox.net

Areas of expertise:

Georgian language, history, and culture

Nona Mozer : NMOZER@aol.com

Areas of expertise:

history and culture

Ghomala (Grassfields, West - Cameroon)

J. Seraphin Kamdem : jseraphink@yahoo.com

Greek

Theano Yerasimou : yera0001@umn.edu

Hausa

Roxana Ma Newman : rmnewman@indiana.edu

Areas of expertise:

Lexicography
Language teaching and pedagogy
Linguistics

Hawaiian

Puakea Nogelmeier : puakea@hawaii.edu

Hebrew

Rutie Adler : radler@berkeley.edu

Areas of expertise:

All levels, styles, purposes

Gila Ansell Brauner - gilaa@jafi.org

Dina Ripsman Eylon : dina.eylon@utoronto.ca

Sima Gottesfeld : simagot@yahoo.com

Aviva Kadosh : akadosh@bjela.org

Areas of expertise:

Community teaching
Early childhood teaching

Adina Newberg : adina@rrc.edu

Or Rogovin : rogovin@u.washington.edu

Areas of expertise:

Linguistics
Literature
Humanistic studies

Tirzah Rom : trom@rrc.edu

Janis Smith : jsmith@rrc.edu

Michael Walker : mcwalker@hotmail.com

Tiberiu Weisz : kaifengstones@yahoo.com

Naama Zahavi-Ely : nxzaha@wm.edu

Hebrew (Ancient / Biblical)

Hélène Dallaire : helene.dallaire@denverseminary.edu

Paul Overland : poverlan@ashland.edu

Areas of expertise:

Hebrew and SLA Pedagogy
Communicative Pedagogy of Classical Languages

Hindi

Sanjeev Jain : skjain@irdaonline.org

Areas of expertise:

Indian culture
Modern Hindi literature
Travelogues
Meditation & life development

Rajesh Kumar : drajeshk@hotmail.com

Areas of expertise:

Grammar and usages
Language teaching
Indian culture
Teaching pedagogy

Rachel Lileet : lileet@hindistudies.com

Areas of expertise:

Pedagogy
http://www.hindistudies.com

Anil Shukla padmaja.shukla@hotmail.com

Areas of expertise:

Indian Literature (both Hindi and English)
Travel
Hindi Films and music

Nidhi Mehrotra : nidhimehrotra@hotmail.com

Areas of expertise:

Grammar
Syntax
Vocabulary
Culture

Arun Prakash : aprakashhindi@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:

Program establishment K-12
Learning material
Hinduism and Culture of India

Ali Taqi : ali@taqi.org

Areas of expertise:

Teaching Materials
Pedaogy
History
Literature
Lexicography
Culture

Jyotsna Vaid : jxv@psyc.tamu.edu

Areas of expertise:

Psycholinguistics
Bilingualism
Word recognition studies

Mohammad Jahangeer Warsi : warsimj@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:

Computational linguistics
Language teaching
Communication studies
Sociolinguistics

Hungarian

Jeff Harlig : jeff.harlig@sa.ucsb.edu

Areas of expertise:

Available teaching materials
Pedagogy
Structure
Tense and aspect
Sociolinguistics

Eric Hood : grunt@skylands.net

Areas of expertise:

Available teaching materials

Peter Vajk : vajk@ix.netcom.com

Tiberiu Weisz : kaifengstones@yahoo.com

Hurrian

Michael Walker : mcwalker@hotmail.com

Icelandic

Elisabet Eir Cortes : elisabet@ling.su.se

Jona E. Hammer : hammer@duq.edu

Irish

S. Breandán Ó hUallacháin : sbohuallachain@hotmail.com

Thomas W. Ihde : thomas.ihde@lehman.cuny.edu

Areas of expertise:

Teaching materials

Nancy Stenson : stenson@umn.edu

Areas of expertise:

Structure of Irish Language
Learning Tools
Languages in Contact

Italian

Khadar Ali : kali@hct.ac.ae

Areas of expertise:

OPI interviewer

Michael Farina : michael.farina@yale.edu

Areas of expertise:

Technology in Teaching
Computer Mediated Communication (CMC)
Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL)
Communicative Homework
Available Teaching Materials
High School and College Study Abroad Programs
Majoring in Italian
Italian Culture

Rita Grassato : rtgrsst@hotmail.it

Brittany Corbucci : brittany.corbucci@gmail.com

Marcantonio Magnarapa : marcantonio@magnarapa.com

http://www.magnarapa.com

Maria Simona Morosin : geastrak@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:

teaching of Italian and English LS to young children and to adolescents
bilingualism
second language acquisition
neurobiology of language (cognitive processes involved)
neurolinguistics

Japanese

Joyce Jacobo : joyjacobo@gmail.com

Tiberiu Weisz : kaifengstones@yahoo.com

Kalenjin

Kibny'aanko Seroney : kassuk@kassfm.co.ke

Areas of expertise:

Syntax
Phonology
Lexicography
Translation
Grammar
Learning and Teaching Materials
Website - http://www.Kassfm.co.ke

Kasmiri

Peter Hook : pehook@umich.edu

Kazakh

William Dirks : anazahqaan@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Learning Kazakh as a foreign language
Culture

Khmer

Vichea In : vin@indiana.edu

Areas of expertise:

Practical Khmer (words and phrases commonly used in speaking)
Language acquisition (Khmer)

Prawet Jantharat : jantharatp2@monterey.army

Areas of expertise:

Teaching materials
Availability of programs

Chhany Sak-Humphry : sak@hawaii.edu

Areas of expertise:

Old Khmer inscriptions
Pedagogy
Material development
Modern Khmer teaching

Khumi Chin

Justin Watkins : justin.watkins@soas.ac.uk

Korean

Tae-Jin Kim Buehrer : tjbhrr@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Vocabulary
Metalinguistic development
Second language acquisition

Kurdish

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com

Lao

Frederick H. Jackson : fjackson@nflc.org

Lithuanian

Irena Gintilas : lituanica@sbcglobal.net

Areas of expertise:

Syntax
Semantics
Grammar
Phonetics
Translation
Reading materials
Historical development of Lithuanian

Lombard (western)

Marco Tamburelli : marcolings@yahoo.co.uk

Areas of expertise:

Syntax
Phonology
Historical development of Lombard

Macedonian

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials
Translation
Sociolinguistics
Structure
Syntax
Vocabulary

Liljana Mitkovska : liljana55@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Grammar (i.e., Morpho-Syntax)
Vocabulary;
Colloquial speech and slang
Language history and culture
Translation

Marathi

Satish Kamatkar : skamatka@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Vocabulary
Pronunciation
Syntax
http://www.marathimitra.com

Sudhir Kamatkar : marathimitra@marathimitra.com

Areas of expertise:

Vocabulary
Pronunciation
Syntax
http://www.marathimitra.com/

Micronesian

Frederick H. Jackson : fjackson@nflc.org

Mongolian

Duane L. Blanchard :dblanchard@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:

Modern Mongolian (Khalkha)

Michael Walker : mcwalker@hotmail.com

Areas of expertise:

Classical and Cyrillic Mongolian

Mon-Khmer

See Wa

Montenegrin

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials
Translation
Sociolinguistics
Structure
Syntax
Vocabulary

Danko Sipka : Danko.Sipka@asu.edu

Areas of expertise:

Lexicology
Lexicography
Morphology
Natural language processing
Language teaching and language acquisition
Historical linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics

A Zoran Star?evi? : zoranstar@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Language teaching and language acquisition
Learning and teaching materials
Curriculum
Translation
Sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Historical linguistics
Structure
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Language politics

Myanmar

See Burmese

Norwegian

Eilif Heyerdahl : practicenorwegian@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:

culture and literature
political science
teaching
the classics

Liv Kari Herstad : livkari@yahoo.com
Areas of expertise:

Pedagogy (Second Language teaching)
Daily life
Nynorsk
Vocabulary
Syntax

Louis Janus : janus005@umn.edu

Areas of expertise:

Norwegian morphology
Pronunciation
Language history

Stian Oksavik : stian@mail.utexas.edu

Areas of expertise:

Vocabulary
Grammar
Idiom usage

Old Church Slavonic

Steven P Hill : s-hill4@illinois.edu

Pashto

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com

Abid Khan : m.abid6@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:

Computational Morphology

Persian

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com

Areas of expertise:

Arabic loanwords in Persian / Farsi

Michael Craig Hillmann : mhill@mail.utexas.edu

Pardis Minuchehr : minupari@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:

Language pedogogy
Language testing and assessment
Culture and literature
Teaching language through film

Atefeh Oliai : atefeh04@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Curriculum development
Instructional materials development
Usage of literature for instructional materials of all levels
Online Testing and Assessment :0+ to 4+
Pedagogy / Teacher training
Text typology
Immersion programs
Intensive language programs k-16

Poguli

Peter Hook : pehook@umich.edu

Polish

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials
Translation
Sociolinguistics
Structure
Syntax
Vocabulary

Andy Golebiowski : andywbuffalo@yahoo.com

Iwona Sadowska : ibs3@georgetown.edu

Areas of expertise:

Gender issues in Polish
Diminutives
Etymology

Danko Sipka : Danko.Sipka@asu.edu

Areas of expertise:

Language teaching / acquisition
Morphology

Ewa Szewc : sapere.aude@vp.pl

Areas of expertise:

vocabulary
colloquial speech
literature
culture

Portuguese

Blair Bateman : blair_bateman@byu.edu

Areas of expertise:

Available teaching materials (especially textbooks)
Pedagogy
Teaching grammar
Teaching culture (Brazil and Portugal)

Maria Cristina Silveria : silveira_maria@hotmail.com

Orlando R. Kelm : orkelm@austin.utexas.edu

Areas of expertise:

Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
Business Portuguese
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/orkelm/kelm.htm

Maria Eugenia Moratto : moratto@csus.edu

Areas of expertise:

Brazilian Portuguese
Culture
Linguistics

Ana Sousa : acsousa@csustan.edu

Areas of expertise:

Portuguese as a global language
Teaching/learning Portuguese as a Second or Foreign Language
Teaching/learning Portuguese with open source web technology
http://www.portulan-online.net/

Punjabi / Panjabi

Gurinder Singh Mann : mann@religion.ucsb.edu

Areas of expertise:

Medieval Punjabi Literature
Teaching of Punjabi as a foreign language

Romanian

Tiberiu Weisz : kaifengstones@yahoo.com

Russian

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials
Translation
Sociolinguistics
Structure
Syntax
Vocabulary

Irina Kulikova : tirwen@yandex.ru

Areas of expertise:

Colloquial speech
Slang
Grammar
Pronunciation

Nona Mozer : NMOZER@aol.com

Areas of expertise:

history and culture

Kae Raratyuk : katico@bigmir.net

Areas of expertise:

Vocabulary
Syntax
Culture
Dialects
Teaching materials

Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby : jrouhie@pop.uky.edu

Areas of expertise:

Semantics
Syntax
Folklore
Pedagogy and teaching materials
http://www.uky.edu/~jrouhie

Tsvetelina Yordanova : yordanovats@hotmail.com

Serbian

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials
Translation
Sociolinguistics
Structure
Syntax
Vocabulary

Danko Sipka : Danko.Sipka@asu.edu

Areas of expertise:

Lexicology
Lexicography
Morphology
Natural language processing
Language teaching and language acquisition
Historical linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics

A Zoran Star?evi? : zoranstar@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Language teaching and language acquisition
Learning and teaching materials
Curriculum
Translation
Sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Historical linguistics
Structure
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Language politics

Shina

Peter Hook : pehook@umich.edu

Slovenian

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials
Translation
Sociolinguistics
Structure
Syntax
Vocabulary

Sm'algyax

Margaret Seguin Anderson : anderson@unbc.ca

Areas of expertise:

Grammar
Phonology
http://web.unbc.ca/~smalgyax/

Somali

Khadar Ali : kali@hct.ac.ae

Areas of expertise:

OIP Interviewer

Mohja : mohaaden@umn.edu

Areas of expertise:

Syntax
Translation
Vocabulary
phonetics
beginners' teaching material

Swahili

Thomas Hinnebusch : hinnebus@HUMnet.UCLA.EDU

Areas of expertise:

Language teaching pedagogy
Materials availability
Comparative and historical linguistics
Sociolinguistic situation of Swahili and other East African languages

James Nyachae Michira: mich0289@umn.edu

Mpasua Msonobari : msonobari@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:

Translation of Swahili and English
Technical terms
Travel study programs and internships in East Africa
Iintensive language drills
Swahili history and future status

Swedish

Valorie Arrowsmith : varrow2@ecenet.com

Barbara Cartford : barbaracartford@hotmail.com

Elisabet Eir Cortes : elisabet@ling.su.se

Ben Larson : belarson@york.edu

Tagalog

Marina Hamoy: cebuano_tagalog@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

Language teaching
Pronunciation
OPI using ILR
Available teaching materials
Reading materials
Translation

Taiwanese

Pushpalatha Sundarsingh : jsdsingh@omantel.net.om

Areas of expertise:

Playway method of teaching
Teaching spoken Tamil to non-native Tamil speakers
Guidance to research methodology

Thai

Frederick H. Jackson : fjackson@nflc.org

Nanna Jonsson : nthepchai@hotmail.com

Areas of expertise:

Language teaching
General linguistics
Historical-comparative linguistics
Literature/comparative literature

Tibeto-Burman

See Khumi Chin

Tongan

Richard "Lisiate" Thompson : lisiate@aol.com

Turkish

Yeliz Celiker celi0016@umn.edu

Areas of expertise:

Vocabulary
Grammar
Daily conversation

Uighur

William Dirks : anazahqaan@yahoo.com

Ukrainian

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:

Learning and teaching materials
Translation
Sociolinguistics
Structure
Syntax
Vocabulary

Natalia Pylypiuk : natalia.pylypiuk@ualberta.ca

Areas of expertise:

Ukrainian literature: 11th-18th centuries and post-colonial period
Language teaching to native speakers of English, especially at the introductory and intermediate levels

Kate Raratyuk : katico@bigmir.net

Areas of expertise: