Linguistics Field Research Lab
Linguistics Field Research Lab
We are faculty and students dedicated to the teaching and research of underdocumented and understudied languages. We are currently engaged in research projects with members of language communities, including: Amahuaca (Panoan), Choguita Rarámuri (Uto-Aztecan), San Juan Piñas Mixtec (Oto-Manguean), Diné Bizaad (Athabaskan), Rere, Tira and Moro (Kordofanian), Teotepec Eastern Chatino (Oto-Manguean), Wyandot (Iroquoian), Irish Gaelic (Celtic), Ket (Yeniseian) and Azerbaijani (Turkic).
We are committed to linguistic description and collaborative language documentation projects whose products serve both linguists and communities.
Many of our research projects have arisen through our Field Methods/Fieldwork classes, both undergraduate and graduate:
2026: Comachuén Purépecha (isolate, Mexico)
2024: Tigre (Semitic, Eritrea)
2023: Southern Uzbek (Turkic, Afghanistan)
2022: Ekegusii (Bantu, Kenya)
2022: San Juan Piñas Mixtec (Oto-Manguean; Mexico)
2021: Todos Santos Cuchumatán Mam (Mayan; Guatemala)
2020: San Juan Piñas Mixtec (Oto-Manguean; Mexico) and Todos Santos Cuchumatán Mam (Mayan; Guatemala)
2018, 2019: Koalib (Rere - ŋ̀rɛ́ɛ́ɽɛ̀) (Kordofanian; Sudan) and San Juan Piñas Mixtec (Oto-Manguean; Mexico)
2016: Ja'a Kumiai (Yuman; Mexico)
2015: Bari (Nilotic; South Sudan)
2012, 2013: Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec (Oto-Manguean; Mexico)
2011: Purépecha (isolate; Mexico)
2010: GiTonga (Bantu; Mozambique)
2005, 2006: Moro (Kordofanian; Sudan)
Find out about who we are, our working group, our projects, and recent news and events below.
Anthony Struthers-Young (PhD 2025) is now a post-doctoral researcher in Linguistics at Princeton University.
JJ Lim (PhD 2025) is now a Lecturer in Liberal Studies at California State University, San Marcos.
Ray Huaute (PhD 2023) completed a two-year UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Riverside and is now a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the American Indian Studies department at UCLA.
Nina Hagen Kaldhol (PhD 2024) is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Multilingualism at the Center for Language, Brain and Learning (C-LaBL) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Devon Denny. 2024. Endangered Languages Fellowship. CoLang2024.
Jun Jie Lim. 2024. UCSD Friends of the International Center Fellowship.
Jun Jie Lim. 2024. UCSD International Institute Graduate Research & Travel Award.
Sharon Rose & Anthony Struthers-Young. 2024-25. National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (LING-DDRIG).
Rachel Miles. 2023. NIH Kirschstein NRSA Fellowship.
Rachel Mayberry and Rachel Miles. 2023. National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (LING-DDRIG).
Ghilyana Dordzhieva, Darina Gedeeva & Jun Jie Lim. 2023-2024. Wikitongues Language Revitalization Accelerator Grant.
We're located in the Applied Physics and Math Building, room 4441
Mailing address: UCSD Linguistics Department, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0108