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Linguistics

Linguistics is the study of how language works. My first masters degree is an M.A. in Linguistics from Indiana University (Bloomington) in 1999. The reasons I don't have a Ph.D. in the field are long and complicated, and I won't go into them here, but suffice it to say that I may still return to it someday. I've always enjoyed learning about languages, but just not as much as astronomy. :) But the whole point of lifelong learning is that there is never really an end, just "what's next?"

Included here are some papers I wrote while in graduate school, as well as a series of links pages below on the major fields within theoretical linguistics (sorry, applied people!).

The major content area in this section of my website is my Luo page.

Research & Papers:

This is hardly a complete list, but a handful of my papers are here. I may add more as they are written, or as I dig them out of my archives. Often, I wrote papers because I had to for class, and so some of the topics aren't exactly my first choice. And I probably got some grumpiness from the faculty for not responding to their "prompting" in quite the way they hoped. But by far, the languages I did the most work on were Greek and Japanese, and some Luo due to the yearlong Field Methods course I took in my second year. What might have happened had I remained in the field... well, I guess we may never know.

Consonant Ordering in Proto-Greek -- published

Decision Theory & Optimality Theory -- published

Greek Mediopassive

(Ancient) Egyptian Stress

Bantu Tone Review

Japanese Mimetics -- coming, if I can find it!

Luo Verbs

Luo Fields Research

Links Pages:

Each page contains a brief introduction to the field, and a list of links. The links were verified as recently as December 2009.

Language Acquisition

Anthropological Linguistics