Education
Ph.D. in Linguistics, September 1993, State University of New York, Buffalo
M.A. in Linguistics, February 1990, State University of New York, Buffalo
B.A. magna cum laude, Linguistics/Religion & Theology, Calvin College
Positions Held
1999-Present Associate Professor of Classics and Linguistics, Dartmouth College
1999-Present Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, University of North Dakota
1993-1999 Assistant Professor of Classics and Linguistics, Dartmouth College
1994-Present Adjunct Professor, Department of Philosophy, Trinity College and Seminary
1992, 1999 Visiting Professor, Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota
1991-1992 Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, SUNY/Buffalo
1989-1993 Instructor, Intensive English Language Institute, SUNY/Buffalo
1990-1991 Instructor of Linguistics, SUNY/Buffalo
1988-1990 Teaching Assistant, SUNY/Buffalo
Grants, Fellowships, and Honors
2001 Academic Computing Venture Fund (with Ioana Chitoran), Dartmouth College, for bringing computer-based training to the Linguistics curriculum at Dartmouth’
1999-2000 Linda B. and Kendrick R. Wilson III Fellow, Dartmouth College
1997-2000 National Science Foundation (SBR-9710091), ‘The Northwestern Tungusic Language/Dialect Continuum,’ co-Principle-Investigator
1997 Mellon Fellowship for Curricular Development, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College
1996 Dartmouth Faculty Fellowship, to ‘Topics in Greek Syntax,’ winter term
1995 Hewlett Presidential Venture Fund, for hosting the Eastern States Conference on Linguistics
1995 New Hampshire Humanities Council Grant, for hosting conference ‘Endangered Languages: Current Issues and Future Prospects’.
1988-1991 Special Merit Fellowship, SUNY/Buffalo
Professional Service
Conference organizer, Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, November 1995
Conference co-organizer, ‘Endangered Languages,’ February 1995
Reviewer for the New York Academy of Sciences Dissertation Award
Dissertation Committee, outside reader, Krag Ferenz, Dartmouth College
M.A. Thesis Committee, outside reader, Susan McGrew, School for International Training
Grant review, National Science Foundation
Manuscript review: John Benjamins, Sage Publications, Linguistic Typology
Cambridge University Press, Journal of Slavic Linguistics
Publications
BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES
1998 Endangered Languages: Current Issues and Future Prospects. Cambridge University Press. (co-edited with Lenore Grenoble).
1997 An Introduction to Language Typology: The Unity and Diversity of Language. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
1996 Proceedings of the Twelfth Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. (co-edited with Marek Przezdziecki)
1992 Buffalo Papers in Linguistics 92-01. (editor)
1991 Buffalo Papers in Linguistics 91-02. (co-edited with Fengxiang Li, Robert Van Valin, and Heather Weber)
1991 Buffalo Papers in Linguistics 91-01. (co-edited with Dan Devitt, Fengxiang Li, Robert Van Valin, and Heather Weber)
ARTICLES
to appear "Endangered Languages," (with Lenore Grenoble). In Raj Mesthie (ed.),Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics, Elsevier Science Limited
to appear "Endangered Languages Projects," (with Lenore Grenoble). In Raj Mesthie (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics, Elsevier Science Limited
to appear "Altaic," Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
to appear "Tungusic," Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
to appear "Typology," Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
to appear ‘‘A Comparison of Siberian Evenki and Oroqen Verb Morphology,’ proceedings of the First International Conference of Tungus Language and Culture Studies, Sept. 10-12, Hailar, China.
to appear ‘The Oroqen Tungus, Their History, Migration, and Current Distribution,’ with Fengxiang Li, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Manchu-Tungus Studies, August 28-September 1, 2000, Bonn, Germany
to appear ‘The Case for Dialect Continua in Tungusic: Plural Morphology.’ In D. A. Holisky and K. Tuite (eds.), The Non-Slavic Languages of the Former USSR: Linguistics Studies: In Honor of Howard Aronson. Chicago: Chicago Linguistics Society.
to appear ‘Evaluating the Impact of Literacy: The Tungusic Languages,’ with Lenore Grenoble, in , Languages in Conflict, ed. by Johanna Destefano, Neil Jacobs, Brian Joseph and Ilse Lehiste, Columbus, OH: OSU Press.
2001 ‘Language Loss and Culture Change among Manchu-Tungusic Peoples.’ In J. E. Terrell (ed.) Archaeology, Language and History: Essays on Culture and Ethnicity, pp. 103-124. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.
2000 ‘Oroqen Dialects’, with Fengixiang Li, Central Asiatic Journal 44/1.1-26
2000 ‘Emphatic Reduplication in Oroqen and Its Altaic Context,’ with Fengxiang Li, Linguistics38/2.1-18.
1999 ‘Language Policy and the Loss of Tungusic Languages,’ with Lenore Grenoble, Language and Communication 19.373-386.
1999 ‘Revisiting Tungusic Classification from the Bottom Up: A Comparison of Evenki and Oroqen,’ with Lenore Grenoble and Fengxiang Li, Language 75/2.286-321
1998 ‘The Life and Death of Derivational Morphology: Reduplication in Oroqen,’ with Fengxiang Li, UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 5
1998 ‘The Rise and Fall of Derivational Morphology: Reduplication in Oroqen,’ with Fengxiang Li, 34th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, pp. 259-268.
1998 ‘The Suffix -kan in Oroqen,’ with Fengxiang Li, Studies in Language 22:2, 181-205.
1998 ‘Toward a Typology of Language Endangerment,’ with Lenore Grenoble. In L. Grenoble and L. Whaley (eds.) Endangered Languages: Current Issues and Future Prospects, 22-54. Cambridge University Press.
1997 ‘Manchu-Tungus Languages.’ 1997 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica.
1996 ‘Kinyarwanda Topics and Object-Subject Reversal,’ Proceedings of the Twelfth Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, 354-363. Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
1996 ‘Endangered Languages: Current Issues and Future Prospects,’ with Lenore Grenoble, International Journal of the Sociology of Language 118:205-219.
1993 ‘Kinyarwanda Applicatives and Some Universal Laws,’ with Donna Gerdts. In T. Heift and P. McFetridge (eds.) Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 2, pp. 59-88. Burnaby, B. C.: Simon Fraser University.
1993 ‘Kinyarwanda Multiple Applicatives and the 2-AEX.’ In C. Costas (ed.) Papers from the Twenty-Eighth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 186-205. Chicago: University of Chicago.
1992 ‘Is There a Predicate in Predicative Adpositions?’ Buffalo Papers in Linguistics 92-01, 78-94.
1991 ‘Locatives vs. Instrumentals in Kinyarwanda,’ with D. Gerdts, in K. Hubbard (ed.) Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on African Language Structure, 87-97. (with D. Gerdts).
1991 ‘Case as a Marker of Panstratal Grammatical Relations.’ Buffalo Papers in Linguistics 91-01, 120-137.
1991 ‘Two Types of Oblique Applicatives in Kinyarwanda,’ with D. Gerdts, in K. Hunt et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics, Vol. 4, 138-151.
1990 ‘The Effect of Non-Surface Grammatical Relations on the Genitive Absolute in Koine Greek.’ In K. Dziwirek, P. Farrell, and E. Mejías-Bikandi (eds.) Grammatical Relations: A Cross Theoretical Perspective, 459-471. Stanford: CSLI.
1990 ‘A Unified Explanation of Deponent Verbs in Koine Greek.’ Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, 178-190.
REVIEWS
to appear Review of Anna Siewierska and Jae Jung Song (eds.). Case, Typology, and Grammar. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. In: Journal of Linguistics.
to appear Review of Leonid Kulikov and Heinz Vater (eds.). Typology of Verbal Categories. Tübingen: Niemeyer. In: Language.
2000 Review of Kazuto Matsumura (ed.). Studies in Endangered Languages. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo, 1998. In: Language 76/2.475-476.
1999 Review of Alexiadou, Artemis and T. Alan Hall (eds.). Studies on Universal Grammar and Typological Variation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1997. In: Language 75/1.204-205.
1999 Review of Janhunen, Juna. Manchuria: An Ethnic History. Helsinki: The Finno-Ugrian Society, 1996. In: Language 75/1.204
1999 Review of Song, Jae Jung. Causatives and Causation: A Universal-Typological Approach. London: Longman, 1996. In: Journal of Linguistics 35/1.229-30.
1997 Review of Webelhuth, Gert (ed.). Government and Binding Theory and the Minimalist Program. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995. In: Language 73.856-858.
1996 Review of Blake, Barry. Case. Cambridge University Press, 1994. In: Language 72.136-139.
1995 Review of Mufwene, Salikoko S. and Lioba Moshi (eds.). Topics in African Linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1993. In: Language 71.421-422.
1995 Review of Farrell, Patrick. Thematic Relations and Relational Grammar. New York: Garland, 1994. In: Language 71.838-839.
1995 Review of Bhat, D. N. S. The Adjectival Category. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1994. In: Language 71.835-836.
1994 Review of Payne, Doris (ed.). Pragmatics of Word Order Variation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1992. In: Language 70.614-615.
1994 Review of Brenzinger, Matthias (ed.). Language Death. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992. In Language 70.851-852.
1993 Review of Jolly, Julia. Prepositional Analysis Within the Framework of Role and Reference Grammar. New York: Peter Lang, 1991. In: Language 69.626-627.
Conference Presentations
2000 ‘A Comparison of Siberian Evenki and Oroqen Verb Morphology,’ presented at the First International Conference of Tungus Language and Culture Studies, Sept. 10-12, Hailar, China.
2000 ‘The Oroqen Tungus, Their History, Migration, and Current Distribution,’ with Fengxiang Li, presented at the First International Conference on Manchu-Tungus Studies, August 28-September 1, 2000, Bonn, Germany
1999 ‘Birth-Death-Resurrection: The Grammaticization Cycle of Causatives in Oroqen Dialects,’ with F. Li, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Los Angeles, California.
1998 ‘Language Preservation Policies that Lead to Language Loss,’ with L. Grenoble, Ohio State University Conference: When Languages Collide, Columbus, Ohio.
1998 ‘The Life and Death of Derivational Morphology: Reduplication in Oroqen,’with F. Li, 22nd Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.
1998 ‘The Rise and Fall of Derivational Morphology: Reduplication in Oroqen,’ with F. Li, 34th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society.
1997 ‘A Cross-Linguistic Examination of Causative, Intensive, and Reciprocal,’ with F. Li, 2nd Biennial Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Eugene, Oregon.
1997 ‘Evenki Language-Dialect Continuum: A First Round,’ with L. Grenoble, 10th Biennial Conference on the Non-Slavic Languages of the Former Soviet Union, University of Chicago.
1995 ‘Kinyarwanda Topics and Subject-Object Reversal,’ the Twelfth Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
1995 ‘The Discourse Function of Descriptive Adjectives in Hellenistic Greek,’ Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana.
1994 ‘Topic and Focus in Kinyarwanda,’ 25th Annual Meeting of the Conference on African Linguistics, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
1992 ‘Obliques in Kinyarwanda,’ with D. Gerdts, Annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
1991 ‘Clausal Obliques in Kinyarwanda,’ with D. Gerdts, the Western States Conference on Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.
1991 ‘Locatives and Instrumentals in Kinyarwanda,’ with D. Gerdts, the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
1990 ‘A Unified Explanation of Deponent Verbs in Ancient Greek,’ the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, Columbus, Ohio.
1990 ‘Syllabification and a Tier-Based Analysis of Reduplication in Koine Greek,’ the 1990 Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
1990 ‘The Effect of Non-Surface Grammatical Relations on the Genitive Absolute in Koine Greek,’ the 5th Biennial Conference on Grammatical Relations, University of California, San Diego.
Invited Talks
2001 ‘Language Disequilibrium in the Modern World: What Do Chinese Minority Languages Have to Teach Us?" Plenary address at the 8th Annual University of Texas, Arlington, Student Conference in Linguistics. Arlington, Texas, February 23, 2001.
2000 ‘The State of Tungusic Studies in the United States’ Hailar, China, First International Conference on Tungus Language and Culture Studies, September 2000.
1999 ‘What’s Cross-Linguistic about Quantifier Float?’ University of North Dakota Summer Linguistics Colloquium Series, July 1999.
1999 ‘Oroqen Emphatic Reduplication in Its Altaic Context,’ University of North Dakota Summer Linguistics Colloquium Series, August 1999.
1998 ‘Face-off: Evenki and Oroqen versus Russian and Chinese,’ with Lenore Grenoble, Northern Siberia Working Group Seminar, Dartmouth College, October 1998.
1995 ‘The Minimalist Program,’ Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, October 1995.
1995 ‘The Syntax of Multiple Applicatives,’ SIL Linguistic Consultants Symposium, Nairobi, Kenya, October 1995.
1995 ‘The Problem of Canon for Biblical Inerrancy,’ Apologetics Group, Dartmouth College, March, 1995.
1994 ‘At the Frontiers of I-Language: The Case of WH-Movement,’ Cognitive Science Group, Dartmouth College, November 1994.
1993 ‘Multiple Objects in Kinyarwanda,’ Dartmouth College, March 1993.
1990 ‘A Unified Explanation of Deponent Verbs in Ancient Greek,’ Buffalo Colloquium Series, September 1990.
Courses Taught
Linguistics
Language and Human Life (SUNY/Buffalo)
An Introduction to Linguistic Analysis (SUNY/Buffalo)
The Structure of English (SUNY/Buffalo)
Syntax II (Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota)
Introductory Linguistics (Dartmouth)
The Origins of Language (Dartmouth)
Atypical Language Situations (Dartmouth)
Historical Linguistics (Dartmouth)
Phonology (Dartmouth)
Syntax (Dartmouth)
Typology (Dartmouth, University of North Dakota)
Seminar on Niger-Congo Languages (Dartmouth)
Independent Study on Role and Reference Grammar (Dartmouth)
Independent Study on Cognitive Linguistics (Dartmouth)
Independent Study on Adjectives in X-Bar Theory (Dartmouth)
Independent Study on Oroqen Folklore Texts (Dartmouth)
Independent Study on Quantifier Float (Dartmouth)
Independent Study on Linguistics Areas (Dartmouth)
Greek
Beginning Classical Greek (Dartmouth)
Readings in Greek Prose and Poetry (Dartmouth)
New Testament Greek (Dartmouth)
Independent Study on Philo and St. Paul (Dartmouth)
Independent Study on Acts and Corinthians (Dartmouth)
Independent Study on Justin Martyr
English as a Second Language
Grammar (SUNY/Buffalo)
Reading and Writing (SUNY/Buffalo)
Senior Honors Theses
Linguistics
primary advisor
•Justin Cooper, 1996, ‘The Syntax of Coordination’
•Devyani Sharma, 1996, ‘Code-Switching in the Minimalist Program’
secondary advisor
•Laura Vacca, 2001
•Michael Friesner, 2001
•Amy Pogoriler, 2000, ‘Dative Subjects in Russian’
•Cynthia Andersen, 1999, ‘Possession in Evenki’
•Heidi Kern, 1994, ‘The Post-Creole Verb System of Jamaican Migrant Workers’
Classics
secondary advisor
Nathaniel Fick, 1998-9, ‘Under an Empty Sky: Thucydides’ Realist Foreign
Policy and Athenian Grand Strategy in the Peloponnesian War.’
College Service
Committee on Policy, 1999-2000
Linguistics Steering Committee, 1993-
Acting Chair, Linguistics and Cognitive Science, fall 1997
Committee of the Faculty, 1996-1999
Council on Sponsored Activities, 1997-1999
College Benefits Council, 1996-97
Committee on Off-Campus Activities, 1996-97
Faculty Research Group--Minority Cultures and Languages of Siberia, 1997-
Faculty Advisor for Asian Christian Fellowship, 1996-
Faculty Advisor for Voces Clamantium, 1994-1998
Linguistics Lunchbag Group, organizer (with L. Grenoble), 1993-97
Student Chairperson, 1990-92 (SUNY/Buffalo)
Executive Council, 1989-92 (SUNY/Buffalo)
Professional Organizations
Linguistic Society of America
Association for Linguistic Typology