Projects by Current Students & Faculty
Projects by current students and faculty are listed below by year initiated. To see your project included, please write to nay.san [at] stanford.edu (Nay San).
| RESEARCHER(S) | LANGUAGE | REGION | FOCUS | FUNDING | YEAR(S) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Borgeson | Estonian | Stanford, CA, Tartu (Estonia) | Consonant gradation, "Q3" | 2018-2019 | |
| Scott Borgeson | Yoruba | Stanford, CA |
Serial verb constructions, field methods class |
2018 | |
| Scott Borgeson | Estonian | SF Bay Area, Tallinn (Estonia) | Verb-Second in Estonian | 2017-2018 | |
| Rebekah Baglini, Ciyang Qing, Daisy Leigh, Reuben Cohn-Gordon, Alex Wade, Gwynn Lyons, Kate Lindsey | Amharic | Stanford, CA | Field Methods class | Department of Linguistics | 2016 |
| Rob Podesva, Jeremy Calder, Kate Geenberg | English | Redding, CA | Sociophonetic variation in a non-urban LGBT community | 2011 | |
| Member list here. | English | California | Voices of California is a Stanford project documenting language and life across California | 2010-present | |
| Vera Gribanova | Uzbek | Moscow, Russia; Tashkent and Bukhara, Uzbekistan, SF Bay Area | Phonetic inventory, clause structure and morphology, ellipsis processes, copular clauses, clefts, nominalizations, relative clauses, case, agreement, embedding | Hellman Junior Faculty Scholar Fund, Stanford | 2010-present |
| Paul Kiparsky | Greek dialects | Kozani, Northern Greece | Historical and comparative syntax of Greek dialects | 2001 | |
| Penelope Eckert | English | San Jose, CA | Ethnographic study of variation in preadolescence | Spencer Foundation | 1994-1996 |
| Paul Kiparsky | Estonian | Southeastern Estonia | Seto phonology | National Research Council Twinning Grant | 1992-1999, 2001 |
| John Rickford | Barbadian Creole, English | Barbados, West Indies | Grammatical features in creoles, sociolinguistic variation | 1990s | |
| John Rickford | Jamaican Creole | Kingston and St. Mary's, Jamaica, West Indies | Grammatical features in creoles, sociolinguistic variation | 1990s | |
| 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 | |
| John Rickford | African American English | East Palo Alto, CA | Sociolinguistic variation | 1980s-present | |
| John Rickford | Gullah, African American English | Sea Islands, off the coast of S. Carolina & Georgia | Grammatical features in creoles, sociolinguistic variation | 1980s | |
| Penelope Eckert | English | Detroit, MI | Ethnographic study of variation and the adolescent social order | NSF | 1980-1982 |
| John Rickford | Guyanese Creole | Cane Walk, Guyana, West Indies | Grammatical features in creoles, sociolinguistic variation | 1976-1978, 1980s | |
| Penelope Eckert | Gascon | Ariege, France | Phonological variation and change | NSF | 1970-present |
