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Discourse and grammar; discourse segmentation, discourse organization; cross-linguistic analysis of register; talk in interaction; information structure; evaluative language; English-(European) Spanish contrastive linguistics
- Ph.D.
- 1999
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dissertation: Linguistic reflections of social structure and culture: A comparison of Japanese and American cooking class genres
- Ph.D.
- 2016
Affiliation: University of Hawai'i
Dissertation: Symmetrical voice constructions in Besemah: A usage-based approach
sociocultural linguistics; race and racialization; language, gender, and sexuality; african-american language; black feminist theory; community-centered ethnography; performance; pedagogy; genre theory; linguistic terrain.
Pronouns: they/them/their
Photo credit: Mariah Webber
Morphology, syntax, discourse, prosody, and their interrelations; language contact and language change; typology and universals; language documentation; American Indian linguistics; Austronesian linguistics
Sociocultural Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Political Discourse; African American Language and Culture; Educational Linguistics, Linguistics Anthropology
- Ph. D.
- 1997
Affiliation: Tokyo Institute of Foreign Studies
Dissertation: Discourse-pragmatic dynamism in Nuu-cha-nulth (Nootka) morphosyntax
- Ph.D.
- 2011
Affiliation: University of California, Santa Barbara
Dissertation: Tone in Ekegusii
- Ph.D.
- 1997
Affiliation: Rice University
Dissertation: The effect of social information on the phonetic perception of sociolinguistic variables
- Ph.D.
- 2004
Affiliation: Radboud University Nijmegen
Dissertation: Motion, transfer, and transformation: The grammar of change in Lowland Chontal
- Ph.D.
- 2017
Dissertation: Transcending homelessness: Religious neoliberalism and the discursive negotiation of agency in a faith-based shelter
Language documentation and revitalization, integrative functionalism, functional intra-genetic and extra-genetic typology, morphology and syntax, competing motivations approach, clause linkage, reference-tracking mechanisms, grammatical relations, valency-changing operations, language processing, grammaticalization, Uto-Aztecan languages, language acquisition
- Ph.D.
- 1996
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Dissertation: Information flow and grammatical structure in Barbareno Chumash
- Ph.D.
- 2005
Affiliation: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social
Dissertation: Resonance, represented discourse and joking in Mexican Spanish conversation
- Ph.D.
- 2019
Affiliation: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Davis
Dissertation: Many ways to sound Diné: Linguistic variation in Navajo.
- Ph.D.
- 2004
Affiliation: National University of Singapore
Dissertation: Globalization, language, and social order: Ideologies of English in South Korea
Language documentation and revitalization; community linguistics; language and identity; language, gender, and sexuality; discourse; tone; Mixteco; Mandarin Chinese; drag queen language
Referential pragmatics, discourse, grammatical theory, semantics, computational-quantitative approaches to linguistics (NLU, ASR, corpus linguistics, semantic modeling) sociocultural linguistics and sociolinguistics; philosophies and histories of linguistics, cognitive science; honorification in Korean and Sinitic, anaphora in Archaic Chinese and Mandarin, logophoricity in Kwa languages, "discourse particles" cross-linguistically, linguistic pragmatics of gaslighting, reference-tracking in Southern Min, reference-tracking in African American English; history of African American English
Linguistic description and theory, syntax, morphology, typology, historical linguistics, cognitive linguistics, language documentation, Papuan linguistics, Bitur (Trans-New Guinea), Abom (unknown), K’ichee’ (Mayan)
- Ph.D.
- 2014
Affiliation: University of British Columbia
Dissertation: A grammar of space in
Kwak´wala
- Ph.D.
- 2004
Affiliation: SIL International
Dissertation: Patternings of vocalic sequences in the world's languages
Language documentation and description, Ende, Pahoturi River languages, Papuan languages, information structure, discourse, language contact, multilingualism
Syntax, language and gender, language acquisition
- Ph.D.
- 2008
Affiliation: The Professor Is In
Dissertation: Historical conflict in present-day interaction: Discursive social action and decision-making for the future of the Chehalis River watershed
- Ph.D.
- 2005
Affiliation: Meiji University
Dissertation: Personal pronouns and argument structure: Discourse frequency, diachrony and typology
- Ph.D.
- 2004
Affiliation: University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Dissertation: Morality in grammar and discourse: Stance-taking and the negotiation of moral personhood in Sakapultek (Mayan) wedding counsels
- Ph.D.
- 2016
Dissertation: Guca: An account of the phonetics, phonotactics, and lexical suffixes of a Kwak'wala Dialect
- Ph.D.
- 2016
Dissertation: The role of intonation units in memory for spoken English
Phonology; morphosyntax; language documentation and description; languages of the greater Himalayan region; Tibeto-Burman; Yonghe Qiang; historical linguistics; quantitative methodologies
- Ph.D.
- 1998
Affiliation: SIL International
Dissertation: Minhe Mangghuer: A mixed language of the inner-Asian frontier
- Ph.D.
- 2018
Affiliation: Macalester College
Dissertation: Musicolinguistics: New methodologies for integrating musical and linguistic data
Managerial oversight of Student Services Unit of the SASC, student services policy and procedures, curriculum planning and course scheduling, TA/Associate/Reader appointments and payroll, student services staff supervisor
- Ph.D.
- 1999
Affiliation: Keio University
Dissertation: Grammaticization in Japanese: A study of pragmatic particle-ization
- Ph.D.
- 2001
Affiliation: University of Tsukuba
Dissertation: Sequence management in Japanese child-adult interactions
- Ph.D.
- 2004
Affiliation: Japan Women's University
Dissertation: The interactional co-construction of play in Japanese conversation
- Ph.D.
- 2012
Affiliation: University of the Ryukyus
Dissertation: The Tonology of Itoman Okinawan: A phonological analysis of the nominal tone system
- Ph.D.
- 1993
Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation: Units in Mandarin: Discourse and grammar
Interactional linguistics, conversation and grammar, cross-linguistic studies of morphosyntactic patterns, languages of East Asia (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hmong)
Computational linguistics; psycholinguistics; corpus linguistics; speech perception; language variation, change, and evolution; phonology and its interactions with morphology and syntax
Languages of Central Asia (Kazakh) and Southern Siberia (Buryat), syntax, linguistic anthropology, direct reported speech, interactional linguistics
phonetics and phonology; Optimality Theory; Japanese; Kansai dialect; prosody; pitch accent; second language acquisition
Language documentation, description, and revitalization, applied linguistics, sociocultural linguistics, language ideologies, language and identity, language acquisition, community based linguistics, Native American languages, in particular Zuni
- Ph.D.
- 2006
Affiliation: The API Guys
Dissertation: Projection in Mandarin Chinese conversation: Grammar and social interaction in question-answer sequences
- Financial and Academic Services Manager
Managerial oversight of Academic Services Unit of the SASC, financial and academic personnel policy and procedures, academic appointments and payroll, financial/academic personnel staff supervisor
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- Ph.D.
- 2017
Affiliation: Boise State University
Dissertation: “Straight-ish”: Constrained agency and the linguistic constructions of sexual identities, desires, and practices among men seeking men
Language documentation, description, and revitalization; phonetics; phonology; prosody; morphology; syntax; historical linguistics; clause chaining; Amazonian languages; Shiwilu (Kawapanan); Peruvian Amazonian Spanish