Professor of Linguistics and Classics, Ph.D. (Linguistics) SUNY/Buffalo, 1993 314 Reed Hall (603) 646-2055 E-mail: Lindsay.Whaley@Dartmouth.edu
Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science Department of Classics 6086 Reed Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
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
