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<p>That’s what I generally think, too. But when I went to look up a linguistics professor at UT-Austin who is a friend of a friend, and whom I have met many times, I find that he is in fact located in their French and Italian Department. All of his background and scholarship is oriented towards linguistics.</p>
<p>I also know that at LACs that offer a linguistics major, language and linguistics faculty ofter cross disciplines to round out course offerings.</p>