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Thomas Payne

 
International Linguistics Consultant, Literacy - SIL International
 
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Company Name : SIL International
 
Company Website : www.sil.org
 
Company Address : 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd.
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Thomas Payne Profile :
International Linguistics Consultant, Literacy - SIL International
 
Thomas Payne Biography :

Degrees

PhD, Linguistics, U.C.L.A., 1985

M.A., Linguistics, U.C.L.A., 1979

B.A., Linguistics, U.C.L.A., 1976

Current positions

SIL International Linguistics Consultant (1995- )

Adjunct faculty member, University of Oregon, Eugene, Department of Linguistics. (1997- )

Other experience

Review Editor, Studies in Language (2006- )

Commission Chair for US Linguistics Challenge (1997- )

Faculty member, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Northwest Christian College. Courses: Syntax and Semantics (grad./undergrad.), Workshop in Grammatical Description (a seminar course for experienced field linguists), Analytical methods in morphology and syntax (grad./undergrad.). (1986- )

Visiting professor, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. Courses: Phonetics, Phonology and Linguistic Perspectives on English Grammar (2005-2006)

Lecturer, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru. Courses: Introduction to morphosyntactic analysis, and Introduction to semantics and pragmatics (in Spanish) (2004)

Lecturer, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia. (Fulbright program). Courses: Typological/functional Morphosyntax (English), Analytical Methods in Morphology and Syntax (Russian) (2001-2002)

Lecturer, Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology, Nairobi, Kenya. Courses: Morphology and syntax, and Phonology II (2005)

Memberships

Linguistic Society of America (1990- )

Association for Linguistic Typology (1998- )

The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (1984- )

Language proficiency

English

Spanish 4+

Russian 1+

French 1+

Research interests

Grammatical description of undocumented languages

Clause combining in Siberian languages

Exploring language structure-morphological and syntactic analysis

Panare reference grammar and texts

Selected publications

Publications in SIL International Bibliography

2006. Exploring language structure: a student's guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2006. A grammar as a communicative act. Studies in Language 30.2.367-384

1997. Describing morphosyntax: a guide for field linguists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1995. Object incorporation in Panare. International Journal of American Linguistics 61.295-311.

1992. The twins stories: participant coding in Yagua narrative. Berkeley: University of California Press (revision of dissertation).

1991. Medial clauses and interpropositional relations in Panare. Cognitive linguistics 2-3.247-81.

1988. Referential distance and discourse structure in Yagua.Studies in language 12.2.345-92.

1987. Pronouns in Yagua discourse. International Journal of American Linguistics 53.1.1-21.

Selected papers presented

2006. The linguistics challenge: challenging future linguists. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 2006. A grammar as a communicative act. To appear in Studies in Language, 30:2.

2002. Cognitive linguistics: Language as a window on the mind. Invited lecture, Department of Psychology, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia.

2002. Toward a substantive typology of applicative constructions. Invited lecture, Third Winter Typological School, Moscow, Russia.

2001. Toward a balanced formal/functional approach to grammatical description. Series of invited lectures, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.

1999. A typology of applicative constructions. Australian National University, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, Typology Club Colloquium.

1999. How abstract is typology? The great Philippine ergativity debate. University of California, Santa Barbara, Linguistics Colloquium.

 
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