Report summary

The 2016-2026 picture for University of Chicago Department of Linguistics is a 33-PI network with 10 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Arts and Humanities as the leading field (31% of slots across 22 PIs; 22 labels), Language and Linguistics as the leading subfield (24% of slots across 19 PIs; 19 labels), and Linguistic Variation and Morphology as the leading topic (15% of slots across 14 PIs; 14 labels). That is a thin collaboration pattern, useful for spotting individual pairs but less persuasive as a broad departmental network. The top weighted PIs are Alan C. L. Yu (14.1 weighted works; Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Phonetics and Phonology Research). The strongest pairings are Lenore A. Grenoble and Jessica Kantarovich (3 shared works, weight 2.1); Alan C. L. Yu and Jacob B. Phillips (2 shared works, weight 2). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 7 PIs, 6 internal connections, weight 6.3, around Linguistics and Language, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, led by Alan C. L. Yu, Lenore A. Grenoble, Jacob B. Phillips.