Diane Brentari

[1] Her dissertation, entitled Theoretical Foundations of American Sign Language Phonology, was supervised by John Goldsmith.

She is the Mary K. Werkman Professor of Linguistics and co-director of the Center for Gesture, Sign, and Language at the University of Chicago.

She has analyzed the formal, cognitive, and cultural dimensions that motivate the similarities and differences among these languages.

Brentari's scholarship focuses on the phonology, morphology, and prosody of sign languages.

[7] Brentar was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the project Observing the Creation of Language (2020).