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Lindsay J. Whaley

Chair, Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies
6086 Reed Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

(603) 646-2055
Email: lindsay.whaley@dartmouth.edu
Office: 314 Reed Hall

Professor of Linguistics and Classics, Ph.D. (Linguistics) SUNY/Buffalo, 1993

Research Interests

  • language typology
  • syntactic theory
  • word order variability
  • Bantu linguistics
  • Tungusic linguistics
  • endangered languages and language revitalization

Courses Taught

  • Atypical Language Situations (Linguistics 7)
  • Historical Linguistics (Linguistics 15/Greek and Roman Studies 11)
  • Introductory Linguistics(Linguistics 1)
  • The Origin of Language (Linguistics 7/Greek and Roman Studies 7)
  • Phonology (Linguistics 21)
  • Syntax (Linguistics 22)
  • Typology (Linguistics 25)
  • Niger-Congo Languages (Linguistics 80)
  • Greek 1 and Greek 3
  • New Testament Greek (Greek 29)
  • Reading in Greek Prose and Poetry (Greek 10)

Selected Publications

  • To Appear "Syntactic typology." In J. Song (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Typology.  Oxford University Press.
  • 2006 Saving Languages, with Lenore Grenoble.  Cambridge University Press.
  • 2005 "Altaic," in Philipp Strazny (ed.), Encyclopedia of Linguistics, New York: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
  • 2005 Review article, with Lenore Grenoble, on D. Bradley & M. Bradley (eds.), Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance (2002), and M. Janse & S. Tol (eds.), Language Death and Language Maintenance (2003).  Language 81: 965-974.
  • 2004 Review of Mark Baker, The Atoms of Language.  Oxford University Press.  In: Journal of Linguistics 39: 699-700.
  • 2003 "The Future of Indigenous Languages." In Futures 325: 961-973.
  • 2003 "Can a language that never existed be saved?  Coming to terms with Oroqen language revitalization."  In D. Patrick and J. Freeland (eds.), Language Rights and Language Survival.  Manchester: St. Jerome's.
  • 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, Linguistics 38/2.1-18.
  • 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: The Case of Oroqen and Evenki", with L. Grenoble and F. Li, Language 75.286-321.
  • 1998 "The Suffix -kan in Oroqen", with Fengixiang Li, Studies in Language 22:181-205.
  • 1998 "Endangered Languages: Current Issues and Future Prospects", co-edited with Lenore Grenoble. Cambridge University Press.
  • 1997 An Introduction to Language Typology: The Unity and Diversity of Language. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Last Updated: 8/27/08