Degrees
1981. Ph.D. Linguistics, University of California, San Diego
1976. M.A. Linguistics, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks
1973. B.A. Spanish, The King's College, Briarcliff Manor, NY
Current positions
Director, CILTA program, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru (2005- )
SIL International Linguistics Consultant (1999- )
Coordinator of Training in Americas Area, SIL International (1999- )
Adjunct Associate Linguistics Professor summer faculty, University of North Dakota, Summer Institute of Linguistics program (1981- )
Linguistic Consultant, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Mexico branch (1981- )
Other experience
Director, Linguistics Program, University of North Dakota (1993-2001)
Instructor, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois (1999)
M.A. Advisor for Linguistics program, University of North Dakota (1986-1995)
Instructor, University of Lima (Peru). (1987)
Research and teaching, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico City), (1991, 1984)
Memberships
Linguistic Society of America
Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA).
Language proficiency
Spanish Level 4
French Level 1 (reading)
Seri Level 1
Selected publications
Publications in SIL International Bibliography
2005. "A Typological overview of the Seri langauge." Linguistic Discovery 3.1,pp. 54-73. Online at: http://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/2/xmlpage/1/article/282
2005. "Comcáac quih yaza quih hant ihíip hac: Diccionario seri-español-inglés." (With Mary B. Moser). Hermosillo and Mexico City: Universidad de Sonora and Plaza y Valdés Editores.
1996. "Seri de Sonora", (With Mary B. Moser). Archivo de Lenguas Indígenas de México. Mexico City: El Colegio de México.
1993. "Zapotec pronoun classification", International Journal of American Linguistics 59:International Journal of American Linguistics 59:82-101.
1992. "Nasalization in Mixtec languages", International Journal of American Linguistics 58:425-35.
1991. "Antipasivo en madija (culina)", (With Patsy Adams Liclán). Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Etnolingüísticos 6:37-48.
1990. "Madija noun morphology", (With Patsy Adams Liclán). International Journal of American Linguistics 56: 102-120.
1987. "The syllable structure and aspect morphology of Isthmus Zapotec ",(With Velma Pickett). International Journal of American Linguistics 53:398-422.
Selected papers presented
In press (2005). "La relación entre las lenguas 'hokanas' en México: ¿Cuál es la evidencia?", (Paper presented at the Tercera Conferencia Swadesh. UNAM, México, D.F.). On-line at: http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/smarlett/Documents/Marlett-Hokan.pdf
2000. "The community and dynamic dictionary as the fulcrum in ethnolinguistic identity", 50th Congress of Americanists, Warsaw, Poland.
1985. "Pluralization in Zapotec languages", (With Velma B. Pickett). Proceedings of the 1985 meeting of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States ed. by Mary C. Marino and Luis A. Pérez, 246-255. Available at: http://www.sil.org/mexico/zapoteca/G025a-ZapotecPlurals.htm.
1983. "Popoluca evidence for syntactic levels", Relational Grammar Symposium, Linguistics Institute, Los Angeles.
Works online
"Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota," volumes 38 (1994), 40 (1996, with Charles Speck), 41 (1997), 43 (1999, with Mark Karan), 44 (2000). Since 1997, these are available on the web: http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/linguistics/wp/wphome.htm. |