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Degrees
Ph.D. Linguistics, UCLA, 1985
M.A. Linguistics, UT-Arlington, 1976
B.S. Mathematics, Wheaton College, 1974
Current positions
Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon (2002- present)
International Linguistics Consultant, SIL (1994- )
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon (1993- )
Oregon SIL instructor/professor (1985- )
Other experience
January-May 2002 Guest Lecturer, Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (NEGST) (Translation Studies Department), Nairobi, Kenya
1992-2002 Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon
July-August, 2002 Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute für Evolutionärie Anthropologie, Linguitics Department, Leipzig, Germany
Visiting lecturer, Profiel van de Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap/ University of Amsterdam (2001)
Visiting lecturer, Universidad de Buenos Aires (1999)
Chair, Linguistics, University of Oregon (1996-1999)
Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of Oregon (1987-1993)
Linguistic workshop co-director, SIL Philippines (1990)
Research Associate for research in Venezuela, Linguistics, University of Oregon (1986-1987)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of Oregon (1985-1986)
Instructor, North Dakota SIL (1986, 1989)
Field researcher/linguist, Yagua language project (Peru), SIL (1980-1985)
Field research: other South American languages, Nilotic (1986- )
Editorial Board Typological Studies in Language (1992- )
Research interests
Reference grammar of Panare (Cariban language of Venezuela)
Maasai lexicography and text data bases.
Maasai syntax
Cognitive linguistics including: verb argument structure, discourse structure
Production and preservation of a data base of Yagua texts
Selected publications
Publications in SIL International Bibliography
2003. Maa Color Terms and Their Use as Human Descriptors. (with Leonard Ole-Kotikash and Keswe Ole-Mapena.) Anthropological Linguistics 45.169-200.
2001. A Frame Semantics approach to lexemic structure: Uncovering the truth about Maa a-síp. (with Leonard Ole-Kotikash and A. Keswe Mapena Ole-Lekutit.) Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 22.145-168.
1999. (ed., with Immanuel Barshi). External Possession. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [20 papers]
1999. (with Immanuel Barshi). "External Possession: What, Where, How, and Why." In Doris Payne and Immanuel Barshi, eds. External Possession. pp. 3-29. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1999. "What counts as explanation? A functionalist approach to word order." In Michael Darnell, Edith Moravcsik, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Michael Noonan, Kathleen Wheatley, eds. Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics, vol 1, pp. 135-163. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1998. "Maasai gender in typological perspective." Studies in African Linguistics 27.159-175.
1997. "Semantic role and argument structure in the Maasai "external possession" construction." Proceedings of the 1997 23rd Meetings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.
1994. "OVSu versus VSuO in Panare (Cariban): do syntax and discourse match?" Text, 14.581-609. (Special volume edited by Sandra A. Thompson and Paul Hopper.)
1993. "Nonconfigurationality and discontinuous expressions in Panare." Proceedings of the 19th Berkeley Linguistics Society, Special volume on Syntax of Native American Languages, ed. by David Peterson.
1990. The Pragmatics of Word Order: Typological Dimensions of Verb Initial Languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
1990. "Morphological characteristics of Amazonian languages." Amazonian Linguistics: Studies in Lowland South American Languages, ed. by Doris Payne, 213-241. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press.
1987. "Noun classification in the Western Amazon." Language Sciences 9.21-44.
1987. "Information structuring in Papago narrative discourse." Language 63.783-804. |
