Shannon T. Bischoff, PhD
I’m professor of Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez. My PhD studies were conducted at the University of Arizona’s Department of Linguistics where I studied theoretical, anthropological, and computational linguistics. My work is greatly influenced by my experience with Salishan scholar Anthony Mattina, as well as my dissertation directors Heidi Harley and Jane Hill. While I have done considerable work in both functional and formal areas, I believe theory is always at work in linguistics, as theory determines the identification of the very units investigated. In broad terms I am interested in understanding “what human language is” and “why it exists” — Questions, 100 years since Saussure and nearly 3,000 since Panini, unanswered.
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