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Curriculum Vita: Vita (pdf 130k)
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Syntactic Typology
Language Contact
Tibeto-Burman Languages [especially the Tamangic group]
Linguistics
English Grammar [see vita for complete list of courses taught]
Journals:
Editor, with Bernard Comrie, of Studies in Language, published by John Benjamins, Amsterdam & Philadelphia, 1990-present
Editor, with Carol Genetti and Tej R. Kansakar, of Himalayan Linguistics, a web journal, 2001-present. URL [pre-launch version]: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/HimalayanLinguistics/
Member of the Editorial Board of Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area.
Book Series:
Editor, with Werner Abraham, of the Studies in Language Companion Series, published by John Benjamins, Amsterdam & Philadelphia, 1990-present
Editor of the Typological Studies in Language series, published by John Benjamins, Amsterdam & Philadelphia, 1996-present. [Associate editor, 1994-5]
[since 2002]
Complex Sentences, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2002, ed. with Joan Bybee
'Posture verbs in two languages of Nepal.' In John Newman, ed. The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing, and Lying. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Karen Grunow-Harsta. 2002.
'Chantyal', in The Sino-Tibetan Languages, Randy LaPolla and Graham Thurgood, eds. London: Routledge. 2003.
'Nar-Phu', in The Sino-Tibetan Languages, Randy LaPolla and Graham Thurgood, eds. London: Routledge. 2003.
'Recent language contact in the Nepal Himalaya,' in David Bradley, Randy LaPolla, Boyd Michailovsky & Graham Thurgood, eds. Language Variation: Papers on Variation and Change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in Honour of James A. Matisoff. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 2003.
'Motion events in Chantyal', in Erin Shay and Uwe Siebert, eds. Motion, Direction, and Location in Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2003.
'Complementation,' in W. Frawley, ed., Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003.
'Subjectless clauses in Irish', in K.V. Subbarao and Peri Bhaskararao, eds. Non-nominative Subjects. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2004.
'Recent Adaptions of the Devanagari Script for the Tibeto-Burman Languages of Nepal', in Peri Bhaskararao, ed. Indic Scripts: Past and Future. Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. 2005.
'Complementation', in Keith Brown, ed. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Elsevier. 2005.
'Chantyal discourses', in Himalayan Linguistics, 2005: Himalayan Linguistics Archive 2. With Ram Prasad Bhulanja.
'Spatial reference in Chantyal,' in Yogendra Yadava, ed. Contemporary Issues in Nepalese Linguistics. Kathmandu: Linguistic Society of Nepal. 2005
'Grammar writing for a grammar-reading audience', in Perspectives on Descriptive Grammars, a special issue of Studies in Language [30/2] edited by Thomas Payne and David Weber. 2006.
'Direct Speech as a Rhetorical Style in Chantyal' in Himalayan Linguistics, Himalayan Linguistics Journal 6. 2006.
'The Rise of Ethnic Consciousness and the Politicization of Language in West-Central Nepal,' in Anju Saxena & Lars Borin, eds. Globalization, Technological Advances, and Minority Languages in South Asia. Berlin: Mounton de Gruyter. 2006.
'Patterns of development, patterns of syncretism of relational morphology in the Bodic languages' in Jóhanna Barðdal & Shobhana Cheliah, eds. The Role of Semantics and Pragmatics in the Development of Case. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2007.
'Complementation,' in T. Shopen, ed., Language Typology and Syntactic Description, 2nd edition, Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press, 2007. [Revised version of the 1985 paper.]
[to appear]
'Nominalizations in Bodic languages', in the proceedings of NRG3, edited by Elena Seoane & Maria Jose Lopez-Couso. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
'Contact-induced change in the Himalayas: the case of the Tamangic languages' in a volume to be edited by Peter Siemunds. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
'Contact linguistics' in Patrick Colm Hogan, ed: Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
'Typology' in in Patrick Colm Hogan, ed: Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
'Case compounding in the Bodic languages', in Greville Corbett & Michael Noonan, eds. Case and Grammatical Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
