Lindsay Whaley-1

Lindsay Whaley-1

Curriculum Vitae

Lindsay J. Whaley

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Dartmouth College

Hanover, NH 03755

Education

Ph.D. in Linguistics, September 1993, State University of New York, Buffalo

Thesis Title: The Status of Obliques in Linguistic Theory

M.A. in Linguistics, February 1990, State University of New York, Buffalo

B.A., with honors, Linguistics/Religion & Theology, 1988, Calvin College

Positions Held

2007-presentProfessor of Classics and Linguistics, Dartmouth College

2016-17Acting Chair, Program in Linguistics

2012-2014Interim Vice Provost, Dartmouth College

2011-2014Associate Provost for International Initiatives, Dartmouth College

2006-2011Associate Dean for International & Interdisciplinary Studies, Dartmouth College

2001-2011Chair, Program in Linguistics & Cognitive Science, Dartmouth College

1999-2007Associate Professor of Classics and Linguistics, Dartmouth College

1999-2003Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of North Dakota

1993-1999Assistant Professor of Classics and Linguistics, Dartmouth College

1994-2006Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Trinity College and Seminary

1992, 1999Visiting Assistant Professor, Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota

1991-1992Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics, SUNY/Buffalo

1989-1993Instructor, Intensive English Language Institute, SUNY/Buffalo

1990-1991Instructor of Linguistics, SUNY/Buffalo

1988-1990Teaching Assistant, SUNY/Buffalo

Grants, Fellowships, and Honors

2013-14Porter Foundation Research Grant, ‘Sustainable Communities in the Arctic: The Land-

Language Link’ (PI’s: David Peterson, James Stanford and Lindsay Whaley)

2011-12CompX Faculty Grant, ‘Agent-Based Modeling of Sociolinguistic Contact in an Emergent

System’ (PI’s: James Stanford and Lindsay Whaley)

2002-2004National Science Foundation (SBR-0220354), ‘Investigation and Documentation of Three Endangered Languages in China’ (PI: Fengxiang Li),

2001Academic Computing Venture Fund (with Ioana Chitoran), Dartmouth College, for bringing computer-based training to the Linguistics curriculum at Dartmouth

1999-2000Linda B. and Kendrick R. Wilson III Fellow, Dartmouth College

1998National Science Foundation, Research Experience for Undergraduate Award (PI’s: Lenore Grenoble and Lindsay Whaley)

1997-2000National Science Foundation (SBR-9710091), ‘The Northwestern Tungusic Language/Dialect Continuum,’ (PI's: Lenore Grenoble, Fengxiang Li, Lindsay Whaley)

1997Mellon Fellowship for Curricular Development, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College

1996Dartmouth Faculty Fellowship, ‘Topics in Greek Syntax,’ winter term

1995Hewlett Presidential Venture Fund, for hosting the Eastern States Conference on Linguistics

1995New Hampshire Humanities Council Grant, for hosting conference ‘Endangered Languages: Current Issues and Future Prospects’

1988-1991Special Merit Fellowship, SUNY/Buffalo

Publications

BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES

2014Suihkonen, Pirkko and Lindsay Whaley. Eds. On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia. (Studies in Language Companion Series 164). John Benjamins.

2012Malchukov, Andrej and Lindsay J. Whaley. Eds. Recent Advances in Tungusic Linguistics (Turcologica 89). Weisbaden: Harrassowitz.

2006Grenoble, Lenore A. and Lindsay J. Whaley. Saving Languages. Cambridge University Press.

1998Grenoble, Lenore A. and Lindsay J. Whaley. Eds. Endangered Languages: Current Issues and Future Prospects. Cambridge University Press.

1997Whaley, Lindsay J. An Introduction to Language Typology: The Unity and Diversity of Language. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

ARTICLES

2016Whaley, Lindsay J. and Rebacca Asoulin. 2016. Place names in the United States and the colonial past. In Nicholas Ostler and Panchanan Mohanty (eds.) Language Colonization and Endangerment: Long-term Effects, Echoes and Reactions, 21-26. Foundation for Endangered Languages.

2016Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘Language and Biological Diversity: Does the survival of Tungusic languages depend on the Amur Tiger?’ in Gurkan Dogan and Alexander Vovin (eds.) Endangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond. Brill. (expected publication: late 2016)

2014Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘Introduction,’ in Suihkonen and Whaley (eds.)On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia, xi-xviii. (Studies in Language Companion Series 164). John Benjamins.

2014Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘Work on endangered languages’. Linguistic Discovery12.1:1-12.

2013Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘Some ways to endanger an endangered language project,’ in Lida Cope (ed.) Applied Linguists Needed: Cross-disciplinary Networking in Endangered Language Contexts. London: Routledge.

2012Lulich, Steven and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘Oroqen vowels,’ in A. Malchukov and L. J. Whaley (eds.)Recent Advances in Tungusic Linguistics (Turcologica 89), 59-78. Weisbaden: Harrassowitz.

2012Li, Fengxiang and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘The grammaticization cycle of causatives in Oroqen dialects’ in A. Malchukov and L. J. Whaley (eds.)

2012Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘Deriving insights about Tungusic classification from derivational morphology,’ in Lars Johanson and Martine Robbeets (eds.) Copies versus Cognates in Bound Morphology, 395-409. Leiden/Boston: Brill.

2011Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘The semantic effect of floating quantifiers in New Testament Greek,’ in Steven E. Runge (ed.) Discourse Studies and Biblical Interpretation, 247-262. Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.

2011Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘Some ways to endanger an endangered language project,’ Language and Education 25/4:339-348.

2010Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘Syntactic typology,’ in Jae Jung Song (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Typology, 465-486. Oxford University Press.

2010Stanford, James and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘The sustainability of languages,’ The International Journal of Environmental, Culture, Economic and Social Sustainability 6/3:111-122.

2009Li, Fengxiang and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘Oroqen,’ in Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tdmor (eds.) Loanword Typology: Toward a Comparative Study of Lexical Borrowability in the World’s Languages, 525-544. John Benjamins.

2007Bouton, Jennifer and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘Grounding in Oroqen narrative: A re-analysis of “present tense” marking,’ in Jonathan E. Cihlar, Amy L. Franklin, David W. Kaiser and Irene Kimbara (eds.), Papers from the 39th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (2003), Volume I: The Main Session, 1-15.

2005Grenoble, Lenore A. and Lindsay J. Whaley. Review article 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 81/4:965-974.

2005Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘Altaic,’ in Philipp Strazny (ed.), Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Volume 1: A-L, 37-39. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.

2005Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘Tungusic,’ in Philipp Strazny (ed.), Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Volume 2: M-Z, 1126-1129. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.

2005Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘Typology,’ in Philipp Strazny (ed.), Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Volume 2: M-Z, 1133-1136. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.

2004Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘Can a language that never existed be saved? Coming to terms with Oroqen language revitalization,’ in Jane Freeland and Donna Patrick (eds.), Language Rights and Language Survival, Manchester: St. Jerome’s.

2004Li, Fengxiang and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘The end of nomadism: Oroqen history, migration and current distribution,’ in Carsten Naeher (ed.), Proceedings of the First International Conference on Manchu-Tungus Studies (Bonn, August 28-September 1, 2000), Volume 2: Trends in Tungusic and Siberian Linguistics. Tunguso-Sibirica 9, 109-127. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2003Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘The Future of Indigenous Languages.’ Futures 35:961-973.

2003Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘Typological diversity and language endangerment,’ in Johann Vielberth and Guido Drexel (eds.), Linguistic Cultural Identity and International Communication: Maintaining Language Diversity in the Face of Globalization, (Sprachwissenschaft-Computerlinguistik 16), 173-185. Saarbrücken, Germany: AQ-Verlag.

2003Grenoble, Lenore A. and Lindsay J. ‘The case for dialect continua in Tungusic: Plural morphology,’ in Dee Ann Holisky and Kevin Tuite (eds.), Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers In Honor of Howard I. Aronson, 97-122. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2003Grenoble, Lenore A. and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘Evaluating the impact of literacy: The Case of Evenki,’ in Brian D. Joseph, Johanna DeStefano, Neil G. Jacobs and Ilse Lehiste (eds.), When Languages Collide: Perspectives on Language Conflict, Language Competition, and Language Coexistence, 109-121. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press.

2002Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘Problem set: Oroqen vowel harmony.’ Linguistic Discovery 1.2. (

2002Grenoble, Lenore A. and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘Archiving electronic journals.’ Linguistic Discovery 1.2. (

2002Grenoble, Lenore A. and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘What does digital technology have to do with Yaghan?’ Linguistic Discovery 1.1. (

2001Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘The growing shadow of Oroqen language and culture.’ Cultural Survival Quarterly Summer (2001):13-15.

2001Grenoble, Lenore A. and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘Endangered languages,’ in Rajend Mesthie (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics, 465-467. Oxford: Elsevier.

2001Grenoble, Lenore A. and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘Endangered languages projects (an inventory)’, in Rajend Mesthie (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics, 835-838. Oxford: Elsevier.

2001Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘Manchu-Tungusic and culture change among Manchu-Tungusic peoples.’ in John Edward Terrell (ed.), Archaeology, Language and History: Essays on Culture and Ethnicity, 103-124. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.

2000Li, Fengxiang and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘Emphatic reduplication in Oroqen and its Altaic context.’ Linguistics 38/2.355-372.

2000Whaley, Lindsay J. and Fengxiang Li. ‘Oroqen dialects.’ Central Asiatic Journal 44/1.105-130.

1999 Grenoble. Lenore A. and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘Language policy and the loss of Tungusic languages.’ Language and Communication 19.373-386.

1999Whaley, Lindsay J., Lenore A. Grenoble and Fengxiang Li. ‘Revisiting Tungusic classification from the bottom up: A comparison of Evenki and Oroqen.’ Language 75/2.286-321

1998Li, Fengxiang and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘The life and death of derivational morphology: Reduplication in Oroqen,’ UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 5.1: 99-108

1998Li, Fengxiang and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘The rise and fall of derivational morphology: Reduplication in Oroqen,’ Papers from the 34th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 259-268.

1998Whaley, Lindsay J. and Fengxiang Li. ‘The suffix -kan in Oroqen.’ Studies in Language 22:2, 181-205.

1998Grenoble, Lenore A. and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘Toward a typology of language endangerment,’ in L. Grenoble and L. Whaley (eds.), Endangered Languages: Current Issues and Future Prospects, 22-54. Cambridge University Press.

1997Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘Manchu-Tungus languages.’ Encyclopedia Britannica.

1996Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘Kinyarwanda topics and object-subject reversal,’ Proceedings of theTwelfth Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, 354-363.

1996Grenoble, Lenore A. and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘Endangered languages: Current issues and future prospects.’ International Journal of the Sociology of Language 118:205-219.

1993Gerdts, Donna B. and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘Kinyarwanda applicatives and some universal laws,’ in T. Heift and P. McFetridge (eds.), Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 2, pp. 59-88. Burnaby, B. C.: Simon Fraser University.

1993Gerdts, Donna B. and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘Kinyarwanda multiple applicatives and the 2-AEX,’ in C. Costas (ed.) Papers from the Twenty-Eighth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 186-205. Chicago: University of Chicago.

1992Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘Is there a predicate in predicative adpositions?’ Buffalo Papers in Linguistics 92-01, 78-94.

1991Gerdts, Donna B. and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘Locatives vs. instrumentals in Kinyarwanda’, in K. Hubbard (ed.) Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on African Language Structure, 87-97.

1991Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘Case as a marker of panstratal grammatical relations.’ Buffalo Papers in Linguistics 91-01, 120-137.

1991Gerdts, Donna B. and Lindsay J. Whaley. ‘Two types of oblique applicatives in Kinyarwanda,’ in K. Hunt et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics, Vol. 4, 138-151.

1990Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘The effect of non-surface grammatical relations on the genitive absolute in Koine Greek,’ in K. Dziwirek, P. Farrell, and E. Mejías-Bikandi (eds.) Grammatical Relations: A Cross Theoretical Perspective, 459-471. Stanford: CSLI.

1990Whaley, Lindsay J. ‘A unified explanation of deponent verbs in Koine Greek.’ Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, 178-190.

EDITED VOLUMES

1996Proceedings of the Twelfth Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. (co-edited with Marek Przezdziecki)

1992Buffalo Papers in Linguistics 92-01. (editor)

1991Buffalo Papers in Linguistics 91-02. (co-edited with Fengxiang Li, Robert Van Valin, and Heather Weber)

1991Buffalo Papers in Linguistics 91-01. (co-edited with Dan Devitt, Fengxiang Li, Robert Van Valin, and Heather Weber)

REVIEWS

2016Whaley, Lindsay J. Review of Mari C. Jones and Sarah Ogilvie (eds.) Keeping Languages Alive: Documentation, Pedagogy, and Revitalization, Cambridge University Press, 2013. In: Language.

2011Whaley, Lindsay J. Review of Nicholas Evans, Dying words: Endangered languages and what they have to tell us, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. In:Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development32/6:602-604

2008Whaley, Lindsay J. Review of Terry Crowley, Field Linguistics: A Beginner’s Guide. Oxford University Press, 2007. In: Studies in Language32.4:984-988.

2007Whaley, Lindsay J. Review of Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels among Threatened Languages. Vintage Canada, 2003. In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 28.3: 242-244.

2003Review of Mark Baker. The Atoms of Language. Oxford University Press, 2001. In: Journal of Linguistics 39/3:699-700.

2003Review of Leanne Hinton and Ken Hale (eds.). The Greenbook of Language Revitalization. New York: Academic Press, 2001. In: Cultural Survival Quarterly (Winter, 2003): 87-88.

2001Review of Anna Siewierska and Jae Jung Song (eds.). Case, Typology, and Grammar. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1998. In: Journal of Linguistics 37/1.245-47.

2001Review of Leonid Kulikov and Heinz Vater (eds.). Typology of Verbal Categories. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1998. In: Language 77/2.417-418.

2000Review of Kazuto Matsumura (ed.). Studies in Endangered Languages. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo, 1998. In: Language 76/2.475-476.

1999Review of Song, Jae Jung. Causatives and Causation: A Universal-Typological Approach. London: Longman, 1996. In: Journal of Linguistics 35/1.229-30.

1999Review of Janhunen, Juna. Manchuria: An Ethnic History. Helsinki: The Finno-Ugrian Society, 1996. In: Language 75/1.204.

1999Review of Artemis Alexiadou and T. Alan Hall (eds.). Studies on Universal Grammar and Typological Variation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1997. In: Language 75/1.204-205.

1997Review of Gert Webelhuth (ed.). Government and Binding Theory and the Minimalist Program. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995. In: Language 73.856-858.

1996Review of BarryBlake. Case. Cambridge University Press, 1994. In: Language 72.136-139.

1995Review of Salikoko S. Mufwene and Lioba Moshi (eds.). Topics in African Linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1993. In: Language 71.421-422.

1995Review of PatrickFarrell. Thematic Relations and Relational Grammar. New York: Garland, 1994. In: Language 71.838-839.

1995Review of D. N. SBhat. The Adjectival Category. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1994. In: Language 71.835-836.

1994Review of Doris Payne (ed.). Pragmatics of Word Order Variation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1992. In: Language 70.614-615.

1994Review of Matthias Brenzinger (ed.). Language Death. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992. In Language 70.851-852.

1993Review of JuliaJolly. Prepositional Analysis Within the Framework of Role and Reference Grammar. New York: Peter Lang, 1991. In: Language 69.626-627.

Conference Presentations

2014‘Does the survival of Tungusic languages depend on the Amur Tiger?’ paper presented at the 1st International Caucasus University Association, Ardahan, Turkey, October 14, 2014.

2014‘Directing multi-person/large research projects,’ paper presented at the 1st International Caucasus University Association, Ardahan, Turkey, October 13, 2014.

2013‘Issues of Sustainability in Open-Access Publications’ paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, January 2013.

2012‘The Matariki Network- A small but beautiful view of partnering for a better world,’ paper presented at the Association of International Education Administrators, Washington, D.C., February, 2012.

2010‘Deriving insights about Tungusic classification from derivational morphology,’ paper presented at the 43rd annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Vilnius, Lithuania, September 2010.

2010‘Six ways to endanger an endangered languages project,’ paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Atlanta, Georgia, March, 2010.

2010‘The sustainability of languages,’ paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Cuenca, Ecuador, January, 2010.

2006‘The challenge of assessing fluency for the documentation of moribund languages,’ poster presented with Fengxiang Li at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, New Mexico, January, 2006.

2005‘An inflecting question particle in Oroqen,’ paper presented at the Sixth Biennial Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Padang, Indonesia, July, 2005.

2003‘The Person Case Constraint as a universal,’ paper presented at the Fifth Biennial Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Cagliari, Sardinia, Sept. 16-19, 2003.

2003‘Grounding in Oroqen narrative,’ paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society.

2003‘Creating Linguistic Discovery,’ paper presented with Lenore Grenoble at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America

2002‘Can a language that never existed be saved? Coming to terms with Oroqen language revitalization.’ paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 14, Gent, Belgium, April 4-6, 2002.

2001‘What’s cross-linguistic about quantifier float’ paper presented at the Fourth Biennial Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Santa Barbara, California, July, 2001.

2000‘A comparison of Siberian Evenki and Oroqen verb morphology,’ paper presented at the First International Conference of Tungus Language and Culture Studies, Sept. 10-12, Hailar, China.

2000‘The Oroqen Tungus, their history, migration, and current distribution,’, paper presented with Fengxiang Li at the First International Conference on Manchu-Tungus Studies, August 28-September 1, 2000, Bonn, Germany.

1999‘Birth-death-resurrection: The grammaticization cycle of causatives in Oroqen Dialects,’ paper presented with Fengxiang Li at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Los Angeles, California.

1998‘Language preservation policies that lead to language loss,’ paper presented with L. Grenoble at the Ohio State University Conference: When Languages Collide, Columbus, Ohio.

1998‘The life and death of derivational morphology: Reduplication in Oroqen,’ paper presented with Fengxiang Li, 22nd Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.

1998‘The rise and fall of derivational morphology: Reduplication in Oroqen,’ paper presented with Fengxiang Li, 34th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society.

1997‘A Cross-linguistic examination of causative, intensive, and reciprocal,’ paper presented with Fengxiang Li at the Second Biennial Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Eugene, Oregon.

1997‘Evenki language-dialect continuum: A first round,’ paper presented with Lenore Grenoble at 10th Biennial Conference on the Non-Slavic Languages of the Former Soviet Union, University of Chicago.

1995‘Kinyarwanda topics and subject-object reversal,’ paper presented at the Twelfth Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

1995‘The discourse function of descriptive adjectives in Hellenistic Greek,’ paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana.

1994‘Topic and focus in Kinyarwanda,’ paper presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Conference on African Linguistics, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

1992‘Obliques in Kinyarwanda,’ paper presented with Donna Gerdts at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

1991‘Clausal obliques in Kinyarwanda,’ paper presented with Donna Gerdts at the Western States Conference on Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.

1991‘Locatives and instrumentals in Kinyarwanda,’ paper presented with D. Gerdts, the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

1990‘A unified explanation of deponent verbs in Ancient Greek,’ paper presented at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, Columbus, Ohio.

1990‘Syllabification and a tier-based analysis of reduplication in Koine Greek,’ paper presented at the 1990 Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

1990‘The effect of non-surface grammatical relations on the genitive absolute in Koine Greek,’ paper presented at the 5th Biennial Conference on Grammatical Relations, University of California, San Diego.

Invited Professional Talks

2015‘Language endangerment in China’s north,’ Workshop on Language Endangerment in East Asia, University of Washington, Nov. 5, 2015.

2015‘Language Revitalization among China’s Oroqen,’ University of Minnesota, Nov. 2, 2015.