Dr. Douglas Ball
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Spring 2026 office hours
Mondays & Wednesdays 10:00-11:00
Tuesdays &Thursdays 11:00-12:30, Fridays 1:30-2:30
And by appointment and by chance
Personal Pronouns:
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BA, University of Rochester; PhD, Stanford University.
Dr. Ball regularly teaches the advanced introductions to the core areas of syntax and semantics/pragmatics (and, occasionally, morphology, too). He also regularly teaches courses on writing systems, the stucture and history of native North American languages, the Polynesian languages, and English, and even a course on inventing one's own language. His research interests lie at the intersection of morphology, syntax, and lexical semantics, especially with regard to underdescribed languages, including those found in Polynesia and North America.