Carol Genetti

Carol Genetti
Born1961 (age 63–64)
EducationUniversity of Oregon (Ph.D.)
Occupations
  • Linguist
  • professor

Carol E. Genetti (born 1961) is an American linguist who is known for her research into Tibeto-Burman languages and languages of the Himalayans.

Academic career

Genetti earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1990 from the University of Oregon.[1] Genetti is an emerita professor from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she was a faculty member in the Department of Linguistics until 2020.[2][3] Between 2013 and 2020 she was also the Dean of the UCSB Graduate Division, and she served as Chair of the Department of Linguistics from 1999-2005.[4] Genetti now serves as the Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Programs at NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.[5]

Her work into Newar language is the first comprehensive grammar, focusing on the Dolakhae dialect. Her investigation into languages of the Indosphere has increased understanding of many typological features, including auxiliaries.[6]

In 2008, she founded InField (now called CoLang),[7] an international training workshop in field linguistics and language documentation.[8] (See papers in Grenoble and Furbee.[9]) She served as Director of the first InField when it was hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara.[10][11] InField/CoLang has provided significant training/support for documentation of endangered languages in North America and worldwide.[12][13]

Awards and distinctions

Publications

  • 2014. How Languages Work: An Introduction to Language and Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Editor) ISBN 9781108454513
  • 2013. (with Rebekka Siemens). Training as Empowering Social Action: An Ethical Response to Language Endangerment: Language Death, Endangerment, Documentation, and Revitalization. ed. by Edith Moravcsik and Kathleen Wheatley. New York: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.142.04gen
  • 2013. Tense-Aspect Morphology from Nominalizers in Newar. Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation, ed. by Tim Thornes, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop, and Joana Jansen. (Typological Studies in Language 103.) John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.103.10gen
  • 2011. The Tapestry of Dolakha Newar: Chaining, Embedding, and the Complexity of Sentences. Linguistic Typology 15. 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.2011.002
  • 2008. Syntactic Aspects of Nominalization in Five Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Himalayan Area. With Ellen Bartee, A. R. Coupe, Kristine Hildebrandt, and You-Jing Lin. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 31(2), 97-144.[17]
  • 2007. A Grammar of Dolakha Newar. (Mouton Grammar Library 40.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198812

References

  1. ^ "Alumni | Linguistics". linguistics.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  2. ^ "People | Department of Linguistics - UC Santa Barbara". www.linguistics.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  3. ^ ""People | Department of Linguistics - UC Santa Barbara"". department of Linguistics.
  4. ^ "Prof. Carol Genetti appointed Dean | Department of Linguistics - UC Santa Barbara". www.linguistics.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  5. ^ Dhabi, NYU Abu. "Carol Genetti". New York University Abu Dhabi. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  6. ^ "Carol Genetti Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.se. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  7. ^ "About CoLang (formerly InField)". CoLang. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  8. ^ "20 endangered languages in Alaska; InField to the rescue | University of Alaska Southeast". Archived from the original on 2015-09-11. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
  9. ^ Grenoble, Lenore A., and N. Louanna Furbee, eds. Language documentation: practice and values. John Benjamins Publishing, 2010.
  10. ^ Migliazza, Brian. "Language Documentation Workshop at UCSB (InField) – June 2008" (PDF). Relazioni. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-09-21. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
  11. ^ "UCSB Linguistics: InField - Who is InField?". 2008-05-17. Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  12. ^ "Ekegusii InField training". CoLang. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  13. ^ Nash, Carlos M (2017-08-24). "Documenting Ekegusii". Oxford Scholarship Online. doi:10.1093/oso/9780190256340.003.0008.
  14. ^ "Cairns Institute Bulletin - Language and Culture Research Group" (PDF). Cairns Institute. March 2011.
  15. ^ "Previous Chairs of the Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  16. ^ "Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT)". www.linguistic-typology.org. Archived from the original on 2013-09-24. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  17. ^ Genetti, Carol. "SYNTACTIC ASPECTS OF NOMINALIZATION IN FIVE TIBETO-BURMAN LANGUAGES OF THE HIMALAYAN AREA" (PDF).