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"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Personal Directory Information
Name:	Sandra  A. Thompson
Institution:	University of California, Santa Barbara
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Homepage:	http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/sathomps/index.htm
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Linguistic Field(s):	Discourse Analysis Language Documentation Syntax
Selected Publications:
Announced on LINGUIST :	Discourse Grammar and Typology. Papers in Honor of John W. M. Verhaar  Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning  Essays on Language Function and Language Type  Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics  The Language of Turn and Sequence
Reviewed on LINGUIST :	The Language of Turn and Sequence
Dissertation Director * of:	Past Tense Forms and their Functions in South Conchucos Quechua: Time, evidentiality, discourse structure, and affect (Diane Hintz, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	Discourse, Landscape, and Directional Reference in Ahtna (Andrea Berez, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	The Semi-formulaic Nature of Balinese Sociopolitical Discourse (Edmundo Luna, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	Historical Conflict in Present-Day Interaction: Discursive social action and decision-making for the future of the Chehalis River Watershed (Petra Shenk, Author)
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