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Lindsay J. Whaley

Professor Lindsay J. Whaley

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

Last Updated: 7/14/11