Linguistic Fieldwork
Robert Munro August 23rd, 2010
The Stanford Linguistics Department prides itself in supporting linguistics research based on empirical data collection.
Fieldwork studies by Stanford Linguistics faculty and students
Locations of languages studied
Projects
| Researchers | Language | Region | Focus | Funding | Year(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Acton, Ellie Ash, Sam Bowman, Jeremy Calder, Annette D'Onofrio, Penny Eckert, Julia Fine, Roey Gafter, Kate Geenberg, Lelia Glass, Jason Grafmiller, Seung-Kyung Kim, Ed King, Bonnie Krejci, Kyuwon Moon, Rob Podesva, Teresa Pratt, John Rickford, Ivan Sag, Tyler Schnoebelen, Jessica Spencer, Marisa Tice, Janneke Van Hofwegen | English | California | Voices of California is a Stanford project documenting language and life across California | 2010-2012 | |
| Penelope Eckert | Gascon | Ariege, France | Phonological variation and change | NSF | 1970 - present |
| John Rickford | African American English | East Palo Alto, CA | Sociolinguistic variation | 1980's - present | |
| Eric Acton | English | St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador | Intensifiers | Stanford Linguistics Fieldwork Funding | 2012 |
| James Collins | Samoan | Samoa and SF Bay Area | Clause structure, case, verb semantics and indefinites | Australian Linguistics Society Scholarship | 2010-2012 |
| Roey Gafter | Hebrew | Greater Tel-Aviv Area, Israel | Ethnic identity and sociolinguistic variation | GRO and DDRO | 2012 |
| Kate Geenberg | English | Trinity County, CA | Stylistic use of "country" features and "Indian English" features by rural, inland California speakers | NSF | 2012 |
| Vera Gribanova | Uzbek | Moscow, Russia; Tashkent and Bukhara, Uzbekistan, SF Bay Area | Phonetic inventory, clause structure and morphology, ellipsis processes, copular clauses, clefts | Hellman Junior Faculty Scholar Fund, Stanford | 2010-2012 |
| Robin Melnick | Turkish | SF Bay Area | Syntactic island constrains | 2011-2012 | |
| Kyuwon Moon | Seoul Korean | Seoul, Korea | Stylstic variation of young women | 2011-2012 | |
| Dasha Popova | Khanty (Ostyak) | Tegi, (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra), Russia | Focus particles and negation | Expeditions with Moscow State Lomonosov University | 2011-2012 |
| Janneke Van Hofwegen | Lithuanian | SF Bay Area | Definiteness marking and NP structure | Stanford graduate research funding | 2012 |
| Annette D'Onofrio | English | Minnesota | Stylistic use of linguistic features from a second, learned language (Korean) in first language (English) | 2011 | |
| Alex Jaker | Weledeh Dogrib | North-West Territories, Canada | Phonetics, phonology and morphology | Goyatiko Language Center, NSF Arctic Social Sciences Program, Stanford GRO | 2005-2009 |
| Robert Munro | Matses | Estiron and Angamos, The Amazon | Reported discourse and evidentiality | Stanford Graduate Fellowship | 2008-2009 |
| Scott Grimm | Dagaare | Ghana, West Africa | Number Marking | Stanford Center of African Studies | 2008 |
| Lauren Hall-Lew | English | San Francisco, CA | Ethnicity and dialectology | 2007-2008 | |
| Mathew Adams | Yucatec Maya | Quintana Roo, Mexico | Verbal voice through tone | 2007 | |
| Jason Grafmiller | Yucatec Maya | Quintana Roo, Mexico | Grammatical features of Maya | 2007 | |
| Rebecca Dayle Greene | English | Eastern Kentucky | Sociophonetics and ideologies of Appalachian English | Stanford Graduate Research Opportunity Grant | 2007 |
| Lauren Hall-Lew and Nola Stephens | English | Rural Texas and Oklahoma | Language attitudes, linguistic identity, and the enregisterment of Country Talk | Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences | 2007 |
| Rebecca Starr | Mandarin, English | West Coast, North America | Acquisition of sociolinguistic knowledge in dual immersion programs | 2006-2007 | |
| Andrew Koontz-Garboden | Ulwa | Karawala, Nicaragua | Adjective and verb semantics | Fulbright-Hays Scholarship and Stanford graduate research funding | 2004-2006 |
| Lauren Hall-Lew | Twi, Fante | Southern Ghana, Africa | Phonology and dialectology | Stanford Graduate Fellowship | 2005 |
| Rebecca Dayle Greene | Japanese | Hirosaki, Osaka and Tokyo, Japan | Changing language attitudes | Stanford Japanese and Linguistics Departmental funding | 2004 |
| Lauren Hall-Lew | English | Arizona | Dialectology | The Flinn Foundation, Stanford Dept of Linguistics | 2004 |
| Andrew Koontz-Garboden | Tongan | East Palo Alto, CA | Adjective and verb semantics | NSF and Stanford Linguistics departmental funding | 2003-2004 |
| Elisabeth Norcliffe | Tzotzil (Mayan) | Chiapas, Mexico | Anaphoric relations | 2004 | |
| Tatiana Nikitina | Wan (Mande, Niger-Congo) | Cote-d'Ivoire, West Africa | Wan syntax | 2003 | |
| Mary Rose | English | Wisconsin | Social meaning of local sociophonetic variables | Graduate research award | 2003 |
| Judith Tonhauser | Yucatec Maya | Quintana Roo, Mexico | Information-structural properties of the agent focus verb form | Stanford Center for Latin American Studies | 2001-2003 |
| Sarah Bunin Benor | Orthodox Jewish English | Philadelphia | Language socialization, adult style acquisition | Foundation for Jewish Culture | 2001-2002 |
| Martina Faller | Cuzco Quechua | Cusco, Peru | Evidentials | Tinker Field Research Grant; Graduate Research Opportunity Grant, Dissertation Grant, NSF | 1998-2001 |
| Paul Kiparsky | Estonian | Southeastern Estonia | Seto phonology | National Research Council Twinning Grant | 1992-1999, 2001 |
| Paul Kiparsky | Greek dialects | Kozani, Northern Greece | Historical and comparative syntax of Greek dialects | 2001 | |
| Ida Toivonen | Inari Saami | Lapland, Finland | General language description, numeral system, sound quantity, agreement morphology | 1997-2001 | |
| John Rickford | Barbadian Creole, English | Barbados, West Indies | Grammatical features in creoles, sociolinguistic variation | 1990's | |
| John Rickford | Jamaican Creole | Kingston and St. Mary's, Jamaica, West Indies | Grammatical features in creoles, sociolinguistic variation | 1990's | |
| Sarah Bunin Benor | Ladino | Israel | Lexical othering (words used to refer to non-group members) | Dorot Fellowship | 1997-1998 |
| Penelope Eckert | English | San Jose, CA | Ethnographic study of variation in preadolescence | Spencer Foundation | 1994-1996 |
| John Rickford | Gullah, African American English | Sea Islands, off the coast of S. Carolina & Georgia | Grammatical features in creoles, sociolinguistic variation | 1980's | |
| John Rickford | Guyanese Creole | Cane Walk, Guyana, West Indies | Grammatical features in creoles, sociolinguistic variation | 1976-1978, 1980's | |
| Joan Bresnan | Kichaga (Bantu) | Tanzania, East Africa | Comparative Bantu morphosyntax | NSF | 1986-1987 |
| John Rickford | Hawaiian Creole, English | Oahu, Hawaii | Grammatical features in creoles, sociolinguistic variation | 1984 | |
| Penelope Eckert | English | Detroit, MI | Ethnographic study of variation and the adolescent social order | NSF | 1980-1982 |
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