Best Linguistics schools?

Lizvarall
Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:51:39 +0000

Rutgers is actually very high up for grads in terms of faculty. You have people like Alan Prince, who co-created Optimality Theory, and Mark Baker, considered one of the best syntacticians in the world. Most of its faculty got their doctorates from MIT and quite a few worked at or attended McGill before being recruited to Rutgers. It is a small departments with a lot of syntacticians and phonologists, and because Rutgers is broke, they don’t receive a lot of money, which is probably why they are often overlooked.