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Lindsay Whaley

Departments: Classics,Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences

First name: Lindsay

Middle name: J.

Last name: Whaley

Email: lindsay.whaley@dartmouth.edu

Phone: 603-646-8647

Office: 301 Wentworth Hall

Titles:

Associate Professor of Classics
Associate Dean for International and Interdisciplinary Programs

Education: B.A. Calvin College; M.A. State University of New York at Buffalo; Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo

Areas of expertise: Linguistics; endangered languages; language typology; Tungusic; Oroqen

Selected works:

• Saving Languages, with L A Grenoble, (2005).
• "The End of Nomadism: Oroqen History, Migration and Current Distribution," with L Fengxiang, in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Manchu Tungus Studies, C Naeher (ed.), (August 28-September 1, 2000) 109-128.
• "Grounding in Oroqen Narrative: A Re-analysis of 'Present Tense' Marking," with J Bouton, in CLS 39, Vol. I: The Main Session, J E Cihlar, A L Franklin, D W Kaiser, and I Kimbara (eds.), (2004).
• Endangered Languages: Current Issues and Future Prospects, with L A Grenoble, (1998).
• An Introduction to Language Typology: The Unity and Diversity of Language, (1997).

Current projects: "Syntactic typology"