Professional
preparation
Ph.D. in Linguistics,
Yale University
Appointments
1986-present: Professor
of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
1973-1985: Assistant,
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, State University of New
York, Albany
Publications
In Press Who
shapes the record: the speaker and the linguist. Linguistic Fieldwork:
Essays on the Practice of Empirical Linguistic Research. Paul Newman and
Martha Ratliff, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2000 Valency-changing
derivations in Central Alaskan Yup'ik. Changing valency. R.M.W. Dixon
and Alexandra Akihenvald, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
84-114
1999 The
Languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
773 pages.
1998 The
significance of diversity in language endangerment and preservation. Endangered
Languages: Loss and Community Response. Lenore Grenoble and Lindsay Whalley,
eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 163-191.
1996 General
characteristics of North American Indian languages. Handbook of North
American Indians Volume 17: Languages. Ives Goddard, ed. Washington:
Smithsonian Institution. 137-157.
Relevant Activities
Project linguist
for a consortium of the six Mohawk communities, in Quebec, Ontario, and
New York State, commissioned to produce a grammar and dictionary of the
language for the communities. The collaboration began in 1973 and has
continued to the present, with courses and workshops in the structure
of Mohawk, second language teaching, curriculum construction, and literacy.
Project linguist
for the Tuscarora nation, commissioned to write a grammar for the community
in western New York State. Collaboration has also been ongoing, with workshops
in the structure of the language.
Chumash language
appreciation workshops, requested by the descendants of speakers of the
Barbareno Chumash language, formerly spoken in the area around Santa Barbara,
California.
Research Associate,
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
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