Ryan Lepic
Gallaudet University
Ryan Lepic is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Gallaudet University. Gallaudet is a bilingual (ASL-English) liberal arts university located in Washington, DC. Ryan is interested in how languages change as a result of how they are used, such as the creation of new words and creativity in fixed expressions. He is also interested in linguistic typology as it relates to the comparison of signed and spoken languages. He teaches courses in undergraduate Syntax and graduate Cognitive Linguistics at Gallaudet, and his recent research projects use online videos to study the grammatical structure of American Sign Language.