My R Packages
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| Manang Languages Project Team Photo (2012) |
Working with Gurung Speakers (2009) |
Gyalsumdo Dictionary Release (2016) |
I took my first linguistics courses as an undergraduate student at Keene
State College, in Keene, NH. I studied linguistics at the M.A.
level at Arizona State University, where
I was first exposed to more in-depth syntactic patterns found in languages
outside of Indo-European (in particular, some of my early work was on Tohono
O'odham, a Uto-Aztecan language of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico).
I then continued with my studies at UC Santa
Barbara, in the Department
of Linguistics there. I became deeply involved with
documentation fieldwork on Sino-Tibetan
languages of Nepal,
in particular the Tamangic
group of sister languages spoken in the Manang
District there. My dissertation involved a special focus on the
phonetics and phonology of the four-way tone system of Manange
(Nyeshangte), in particular as the acoustic variables of this complex system
can vary across speakers in different contexts of bilingualism. My
passion for documentation and description of Tamangic languages continues to
this day.
Upon my graduation in 2003, for two years, I was fortunate enough to be a
part of the Word
Domains Project (part of the larger Autotyp
project on typology databasing) at the University
of Leipzig as a post-doctoral associate. From 2005-2008 I was
a lecturer in the Linguistics
and English Language Programme at the University
of Manchester. I am currently a faculty member in the Department
of English Language and Literature at Southern
Illinois University Edwardsville. You can check out the most
current version of my C.V.
for my activities in this area, and some of my publications, manuscripts
(in pre-print format) and presentations are available for download
as .pdf's.