Research Expertise and Interest

meaning, grammar, endangered languages, Native American languages, semantics, syntax, word structure, language universals, language variation, Nez Perce language

Research Description

Amy Rose Deal is a professor in the Department of Linguistics.  Her research focuses on linguistic meaning and the structure of words and sentences. She investigates a wide variety of languages with a particular focus on those indigenous to North America. The goals of this work are to form a more complete picture of the ways in which languages do and do not differ from one another in terms of sentence structure and meaning.