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Helen Aristar-Dry | Karen Dykstra | Edward Garrett | Beverley Goodman
Verónica Grondona | Daniel Seely | Keith Denning (1955-1998)
 
Helen Aristar-Dry      Helen Aristar-Dry
Professor of Linguistics
PhD, U. of Texas at Austin, 1975

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/~hdry/
E-mail: hdry[AT]linguistlist[DOT]org
Office#: 612S Pray-Harrold
Telephone: (734)487-0144
Areas of expertise:
Computer applications in linguistics; text & corpus linguistics, especially authorship attribution; linguistic stylistics; discourse analysis

Current Projects:
  • LINGUIST List (Moderator)
  • E-MELD (Principal Investigator)
  • OLAC; an investigation of "Gender Differences in Letters of Recommendation"
  • legal consulting on authorship attribution

    Selected Publications & Professional Activities:
    Recent Publications:
    Using Computers in Linguistics: A Practical Guide. (Ed. with John Lawler). Routledge, 1998.
    "Represented Speech and Thought," The Literary Stylistic Criticism of 19th and 20th Century Prose (Eds.)
       Jean-Jacques Weber and Peter Verdonk. INTERFACE series (1994). London: Routledge.
    "Foregrounding: An Assessment." Language in Context: Essays for Robert Longacre. (Eds.) Shin Ja Hwang
       and Robert Merrifield. Summer Institute of Linguistics and U. of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics
       Number 107 (1992): 435-450.

    Presentations on digitizing and archiving language data:
    Workshop on Methods and Tools in Field Linguistics, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, May 26-27, 2002.
    Open Language Archives Community Launch in Europe, 3rd Language Resources and Evaluation Conference,
       Las Palmas, Spain, 29 May 2002.
    Open Language Archives Community Launch in N. America, 76th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of
       America, San Francisco, January 3-6, 2002.
    IRCS Workshop, U. of Pennsylvania, Dec. 11-14, 2001.
    Workshop on Endangered Languages Data , Santa Barbara, CA., June 29 - July 2, 2001.
    Max Planck Institute Workshop on Metadata, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, March 1 - 2, 2001.
    Workshop on Web-Based Archiving, The Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia, Dec. 11-15, 2000.

    Presentations on authorship attribution:
    Carnegie Mellon University (Nov. 16, 2000); Societas Linguisticae Europeae, Poznan, Poland, (Sept. 2, 2000); Michigan State University, (Feb. 17, 2000); Languaging 99, U. of North Texas, (March 4-9, 1999) (Plenary address); Wayne State University (Dec. 14, 1999); Panel on Legislating Language, Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA (Dec. 30, 1998); U. of Michigan-Flint (Nov. 7, 1997); National Conference on Law and Society, St. Louis, MO. (May 31-June 2, 1997)

    Workshops organized:
    Workshop on the Digitization of Lexical Information, Ypsilanti, MI, Aug. 2-5, 2002.
    Workshop on Methods and Tools in Field Linguistics (with Peter Austin, U. of Melbourne and Peter Wittenberg,
       Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), Las Palmas, Canary Islands, May 26-27, 2002
    Workshop on the Digitization of Endangered Languages Data, Santa Barbara, CA., June 29-July 2, 2001.

    Other:
    Advisory Board, Open Languages Archives Community (OLAC), 2000-present.
    Advisory Board, EU/USA Joint Initiative for Standards in Language Engineering (ISLE), 2000-present.
    Advisory Board, Scirus Project, Elsevier Press, 2001-present
    Advisory Board, Rosetta Project, 2001 - present.
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    Karen Dykstra      Karen Dykstra
    Lecturer
    MA, Eastern Michigan University, 2000

    E-mail: kdykstra[AT]emich[DOT]edu
    Office#: 612H Pray-Harrold
    Telephone: (734)487-1369
    Areas of expertise:
    Phonology and morphology, particularly of English, and in regard to inherited versus borrowed vocabulary.

    Current Projects:
  • Teaching 3 classes for a total of 285 students
  • Sociolinguistic and anthopological linguistic issues in Greece, especially Vlach and Albanian speaking communities.
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    Edward Garrett      Edward Garrett
    Assistant Professor
    PhD in Linguistics, UCLA, 2001

    Homepage:
    E-mail: egarrett[AT]emich[DOT]edu
    Office#: 613L-Pray-Harrold
    Telephone: (734)487-0138
    Areas of expertise:
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    Current Projects:
  • Phonetic text processing software. (http://altiplano.emich.edu/ipa4unicode)
  • Video annotation and transcription software. (http://altiplano.emich.edu/quilldriver)
  • Project on Tibetan entitled "The Grammar of First-Person Knowledge: Qualitative and Quantitative Investigations".


    Selected Publications & Professional Activities:
  • A Finite-State Network for Phonetic Text Processing. In Alexander Gelbukh (ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 6th International Conference, CICLing 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
       
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    Beverley Goodman      Beverley Dewey Goodman
    Associate Professor
    PhD in Linguistics, Cornell University, 1995 (Phonological Theory)

    Homepage: http://www.emunix.emich.edu/~bgoodman
    E-mail: bgoodman[AT]emich[DOT]edu
    Office#: 612O Pray-Harrold
    Telephone: (734)487-0138
    Areas of expertise:
    Theoretical phonology; the Relationship of phonetics and phonology; primary data collection and analysis; nonconcatenative morphology; Takelma (Penutian) and Pomo (Hokan); phonetic and phonological analysis of Ponapean (Micronesian), Oromo, Dahalo, Arbore (Cushitic) and American English.

    Current Projects:
  • The Relationship of Phonological Weight and Phonetic Duration in Oromo (Cushitic) and English
  • The Interaction of Epenthesis and Nasal Assimilation Cross-linguistically
  • Ponapean Phonology and Optimality Theory

    Selected Publications & Professional Activities:
    Vowel Reduction and Syncope in American English. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics
       Society of America, Chicago, IL. Co-authored with Stephanie Gelderloos (2000).
    Phonological Weight and Phonetic Duration in Oromo. Paper presented at the Michigan Linguistic Society
       Meeting, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI. (1999).
    Phonetic Duration and the Tense/Lax Distinction in English. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
       Linguistics Society of America, New York, NY, Co-authored with Maria Jones and Laura Sabadini. (1998).
    Ponapean Weight and [±consonantal]. Paper presented at NELS 28, Toronto, Canada (1997).
    Features in Ponapean Phonology. Cornell University Ph.D. Dissertation (1995).
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    Verónica Grondona      Verónica Grondona
    Assistant Professor
    PhD in Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh, 1998

    Homepage: http://www.emunix.emich.edu/~grondona/vg
    E-mail: >vgrondona[AT]emich[DOT]edu
    Office#: 612R Pray-Harrold
    Telephone: (734)487-0145
    Areas of expertise:
    American Indian languages, particularly South American languages, historical and comparative linguistics, typology, morphology and morphosyntax, descriptive linguistics, minority and endangered languages

    Current Projects:
  • Documentation and description of languages of Chorote, chulupi and Kadiweu (Southern Chaco, S. America) (Funded by the Lisbet Rausing Fund, SOAS, U. of London)
  • Comprative and historical studies of languages of the S. Chaco, especially Matacoan and Guaycuruan languages
  • E-meld project (digitization of linguistic data on endangered languages)
  • Linguistic documentation of Mocovi (Guaycuruan)
  • Active-Inactive languages

    Selected Publications & Professional Activities:
    La posesión en mocoví. (Possession in Mocoví). Apuntes sobre Lenguas Indigenas Argentinas. Buenos Aires,
       Argentina. (In press.)
    Las raíces deícticas en mocoví. (Deictic roots in Mocoví) In Cabral, A. S. A. C. and Rodrigues, A. D. (orgs.).
       Línguas Indígenas Brasileiras: Fonologia, Gramática e História, Atas do I Encontro Internacional do Grupo
       de Trabalho sobre Línguas Indígenas da ANPOLL    . T. I, pp. 164-175. Belém: EDUFPA. (2002)
    Location and direction in Mocoví. Proceedings of the First Workshop on American Indigenous Languages.
       University of California, Santa Barbara. (1998)
    Location and direction in Waikuruan languages. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the
       Berkeley Linguistics Society    . University of California, Berkeley. (1998)
    A Preliminary reconstruction of Proto-Waikuruan, with special reference to pronominals and demonstratives.
       Anthropological Linguistics. 37(2).169-191. (with Filomena Sandalo) (1995)
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    Daniel Seely      T. Daniel Seely
    Professor
    PhD, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst. 1988.

    Homepage: http://www.emich.edu/public/lingprog/daniel.html
    E-mail: tseely[AT]emich[DOT]edu
    Office#: 612D Pray-Harrold
    Telephone: (734) 487-0145
    Areas of expertise:
    Syntax, Semantics, Psycholinguistics

    Current Projects:
  • Transformations and Derivations. Cambridge University Press. With Sam Epstein (U. of Michigan)
  • Radically derivational minimalism, features and defective domains. With Acrisio Pires and Sam Epstein (both from U. of Michigan)

    Selected Publications & Professional Activities:
    Epstein, S. D. & T. Daniel Seely (eds) (2002) Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program. Blackwell
       Series on Generative Syntax; Blackwell Publishers. Co-edited book.
    Epstein, S. D. & T. Daniel Seely (2002) Rule applications as cycles in a level-free syntax. In Epstein & Seely
       (2002).
    Epstein, S. D. & T. Daniel Seely (2002) On the quest for explanation. In Epstein & Seely (2002).
    Seely (1999) Judging Introspection. MMLA.
    Seely (1999) SPEC-ifying the GF 'subject;' eliminating A-Chains and the EPP within a Derivational Model. With
       Samuel David Epstein. Paper presented at the LSA Summer Institute workshop on Grammatical Functions.
       July 9, 1999.
    Seely (1999) On E-conferences. In GLOT, 1999.
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    Keith Denning (1955-1998)
     
    The EMU Linguistics Program is saddened to announce that Keith Denning died the morning of Monday, November 16, 1998, after a brief illness.

    Please visit Keith's commemorative web page, which consists of colleagues', students', and friends' recollections of Keith.

    Keith's professional interests:
    Keith Denning worked in the fields of language change, historical linguistics, 'functionalist' typology/universals, phonetics/phonology (especially on the interactions of laryngeal and supralaryngeal aspects of speech) as well as sociolinguistics and (mostly English) dialectology.
    He made a specialty of the languages of the East Sudanic branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family (especially the West Nilotic languages Dinka and Shilluk) and was also interested in diachronic aspects of Indo-European, South and st Asian and other language families.
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