Donka Farkas (born April 3, 1952) is a Romanian-American linguist, Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
[1] Donka Farkas received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 1981.
[2][3] Her dissertation, titled Intensional Descriptions and the Romance Subjunctive Mood, was supervised by James D. McCawley.
She joined the linguistics faculty of University of California-Santa Cruz in 1991, where she remained until her retirement in 2019.
[4] She specializes in formal semantics and pragmatics, and her widely-cited work is often grounded in data from Romance languages and Hungarian.
In 2013, Farkas was recognized with the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities, which honors one recipient each year for outstanding teaching in the humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz.