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Name:	Suzanne  Kemmer
Institution:	Rice University
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Homepage:	http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/
State and/or Country:	TX USA
Linguistic Field(s):	Linguistic Theories
Specialty:	Cognitive Linguistics
Language Family(ies):	Nilo-Saharan
Selected Publications:	The Middle Voice. (Typological Studies in Language Series.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins (1993). Interaction and Causation: Causative Constructions in Modern Standard Dutch (with Arie Verhagen). Journal of Pragmatics 27 (1997), 61-82. Emphatic and Reflexive -Self: Expectations, Viewpoint, and Subjectivity. Subjectivity and Subjectivization, ed. by D. Stein and S. Wright. Cambridge: CUP (1995), 55-82. The Semantics of 'Empty Prepositions' in French (with Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot). Cognitive Linguistics in the Redwoods, ed. by E. Casad. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (1995), 347-388. The Grammar of Causatives and the Conceptual Structure of Events (with Arie Verhagen). Cognitive Linguistics 5, 2 (1994), 115-156. A Schema-Based Approach to Grammatical Description (with Michael Barlow). The Reality of Linguistic Rules, ed. by S. Lima, et al. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (1994), 19-42.
Announced on LINGUIST :	Usage-Based Models of Language  The Middle Voice  Usage-Based Models of Language  Language, Culture and Mind
Courses Taught:	Semantics & Pragmatics; Language Universals and Typology; Syntax and Semantics; Field Methods; Words in English: Structure, History, Use; Foundations of Linguistic Theory; Historical Linguistics; Seminars in Constructional Syntax; Syntactic Change; Grammaticalization; Cognitive Semantics; Semantic Change; The Origins and Evolution of Human Language
Dissertation Director * of:	Proto-Bungku-Tolaki: Reconstruction of its phonology and aspects of its morphosyntax (David Mead, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	Discourse and Definiteness: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives (Richard Epstein, Author)
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