Nicholas Williams

Biography

Nicholas Williams is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Linguistics and teaches courses including Introduction to Linguistics, Structure of American English, Language and Culture, Language in Society, and Language of Propaganda. He is also a specialist in language documentation, languages of Indonesia, and conversation analysis. Dr. Williams received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2016, with a dissertation examining the language of place reference in Kula, a Papuan language of Indonesia. He has published work on Indonesian, Kula, Wa'ikhana and Kotiria (East Tukano, Brazil), and English. Prior to joining Montclair, Dr. Williams taught at CUNY (Queens College, City College, and Baruch College), Dartmouth, and the University of Potsdam (Germany).

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Research

Language documentation, Morphosyntax, Interactional Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, Languages of Indonesia