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CURRICULUM VITAE

Scott DeLancey Department of Linguistics University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1290, USA 541-346-3901 delancey@darkwing.uoregon.edu

Education:

1975-80 Indiana University. Ph.D. in Linguistics Minor in Tibetan 1970-72 Cornell University. B.A. in Linguistics Dissertation: Deictic Categories in the Tibeto-Burman Verb.

Academic employment:

1992-present Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Oregon. 1995 Faculty member, 1995 LSA Linguistics Institute, University of New Mexico. 1985-1992 Associate Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Oregon. (Chair, 1985-90) 1987 (Spring) Visiting Associate Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, University of California at San Diego. l982-1985 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Oregon. 1980-82 Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Colorado.

Research Support:

1999-00 NSF: dissertation grant for Tim Thornes, for fieldwork on Northern Paiute ($23,840) 1997-8 NSF: dissertation grant for Connie Dickinson, for fieldwork on Tsafiki ($22,800) 1993-4 NSF/NEH: Comparative Penutian Workshop ($36,293) 1989-91 NSF: Comparative Bodic Syntax ($75,054) 1989-91 NSF: Sahaptin Grammar and Texts--Renewal (Noel Rude, co-P.I.) ($80,150) 1988-89 NSF: dissertation grant for Carol Genetti, for fieldwork on Dolakha Newari ($16,810) 1987-89 NSF: Comparative Tibeto-Burman Verb Morphology ($68,459) 1987-89 NSF: Sahaptin Grammar and Texts (Noel Rude, co-P.I.) ($72,167) 1986-87 NEH: Klamath Text Studies ($55,328) l985-87 NSF: Descriptive and Comparative Syntax of Tibetan and Newari. ($65,403) 1984-85 NSF: Transitivity in Tibetan and Newari. ($27,054) 1984 Social Science Research Council Grant-in-aid: Syntax of Newari. ($810) 1983 University of Oregon Summer Faculty Research Award for research on Newari and Tibetan. 1982 American Philosophical Society, Grant-in-aid, for preparation of Hare texts. ($400) 1982 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, for fieldwork on Hare. ($2,000) 1982 NEH Summer Stipend, for research on transitivity in Hare.

Service

Professional service:

Associate Editor of Language, 1985-88. Editorial Board, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. Consulting Editor, Cognitive Linguistics, 1990-present. Consulting Editor, Studies in Language, 1992-present Proposal review for the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEH, the NSF Linguistics, Anthropology, Information Science, and Robotics & Machine Intelligence panels, and the Australian Research Council. Manuscript review for University of Chicago Press, University of California Press, Oxford University Press. Organized: 17th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, Sept. 7-9, 1984. 1988 Hokan-Penutian Conference, University of Oregon, June 1988. 1994 Hokan-Penutian Conference, University of Oregon, July 1994. 1997 Second Association for Linguistic Typology conference, University of Oregon, September 1997 Co-organizer (with Russell Tomlin): 13th Annual Western Conference on Linguistics, October 15-6, 1983. First (October 1985), Second (November 1986), and Third (November 1987) Pacific Linguistics Conference. Panelist for the Research Tools program of the NEH, 1986, 1987, 1989. LSA Nominating Committee, 1989, 1991-4. LSA Committee on Endangered Languages and Their Preservation, 1994-6 (Chair, 1995-6) Co-organizer (with Victor Golla): Comparative Penutian Workshop (University of Oregon, June 27-July 8, 1994). Chair, Program Committee, ALT 3 (Association for Linguistic Typology), 1999. Executive Committee, Association for Linguistic Typology, 1999-2003.

University service:

1984-- Asian Studies Committe 1986-- Southeast Asian Studies Committe 1989-90 Research Committee 1989-91 Advisory Board, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies 1989-90 Search committee for CAPS director 1990-91 Review committee for International Studies director 1993-96 Graduate Council (Co-chair, 1995-6) 1994 Internal Program Review Committee for Anthropology (Chair) 1994-5 Chair, Southeast Asian Studies Program 1996 Internal Program Review Committee for Comparative Literature (Chair)

Departmental service:

Graduate advisor 1983-85, 1993-4, 1996-present Department head 1985-90, 1999-2000 Graduate admissions officer 1990-present

Community service:

1988-present Unpaid consultant to the Klamath Tribe for their language preservation and teaching project. 1989 Taught a U of O course, Introduction to Klamath, in Chiloquin, OR, for the Klamath Tribe. (September 5-15, 1989) 1998-present Director, Northwest Indian Language Institute.

Teaching

Courses taught:

Undergraduate: Introduction to Linguistics, Languages of the World, Analytical Methods in Morphology and Syntax, Phonetics, Phonology, Syntax and Semantics I, II, Historical and Comparative Linguistics, English Grammar, Structure of Thai, Structure of Klamath Graduate: Linguistic Theory--Semantics, Linguistic Theory--Phonology, Historical Syntax, Field Methods (Panjabi, Tibetan, Sunwar, Burmese), Classical Tibetan, Reading Klamath, Old Irish; Seminars: Categorization and Lexical Semantics; Grammaticalization; North American Languages; Penutian Languages; Tibeto-Burman Linguistics; Case Theory; Cognitive Grammar.

Graduate students:

PhD dissertations chaired: Carol Genetti(1990), David Hargreaves (1991), Anju Saxena (1992), Lalnungthangi Chhangte (1993), Sherri Brainard (1994), Insun Park (1994), David Watters (1998), Erik Andvik (1999), Myint Soe (1999), Unchalee Singnoi (2000), Roberto Zavala (2000), Janne Underriner (2002), Connie Dickinson (2002), Timothy Thornes (2003) MA theses: Joseph Clifford (1986), Carol Genetti (1986), Audra Phillips (1988), Myunghee Kim (1989), Leslie Opp-Beckman (1989), Kyounghee Ko (1989), Insun Park (1990), Sherri Brainard (1991), Peter Jacobs (1992), Patricia Whereat (1996), Janne Underriner (1996), David Watters (1996) Dissertation committees: Noel Rude, Linguistics (1985), Oliver John, Psychology (1986), David Novick, CIS (1988), Chad Thompson, Linguistics (1989), Yasuko Watanabe, Linguistics (1989), James Tanaka, Psychology (1989), Robert Carlson, Linguistics (1990), Spike Gildea, Linguistics (1992), Myung Hee Kim, Linguistics (1993), Kweku Osam, Linguistics (1994), Terry McQuilken, Music (1995), William Staley, Linguistics (1995), Marleen Haboud, Linguistics (1996), Thomas Ball, Special Education and Community Resources (1998), Pilar Valenzuela, Linguistics (2003), Boniface Kawasha, Linguistics (2003).

Publications

Refereed articles and book chapters:

to appear. Grammaticalization. in G. Booij, C. Lehmann, J. Mugdan, eds., Morphology: A Handbook on Inflection and Word Formation. New York: De Gruyter. Klamath. in A. Peyraube, ed., Dictionnaire des langues du monde. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. Penutia. in A. Peyraube, ed., Dictionnaire des langues du monde. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 2005. Adpositions as a non-universal category. pp. 185-202 in Zygmunt Frajzyngier, et. al., eds., Linguistic diversity and language theories. Benjamins. 2003. Location and direction in Klamath. pp. 59-90 in E. Shay and U. Seibert, eds., Motion, direction, and location in languages: In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier. Benjamins. Classical Tibetan. pp. 255-269 in G. Thurgood and R. LaPolla, The Sino-Tibetan Languages. London: Routledge. Lhasa Tibetan. pp. 270-288 in G. Thurgood and R. LaPolla, The Sino-Tibetan Languages. London: Routledge. 2002. The mirative and evidentiality. Journal of Pragmatics 33.3:369-382. The universal basis of case. Logos and Language 1.2:1-15. 1999. Lexical prefixes and the bipartite stem construction in Klamath. International Journal of American Linguistics 65.1.56-83. Relativization in Tibetan. in Yogendra Yadava and Warren Glover, eds., Studies in Nepalese Linguistics, pp. 231-49. Kathmandu: Royal Nepal Academy. 1998. Semantic categorization in Tibetan honorific nouns. Anthropological Linguistics 40:109-23. 1997. The Penutian hypothesis: Retrospect and prospect. (with Victor Golla). International Journal of American Linguistics 63:171-202. Grammaticalization and the gradience of categories: Relator nouns and postpositions in Tibetan and Burmese. pp. 51-69 in Joan Bybee et. al., eds., Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón. Benjamins. Mirativity: The grammatical marking of unexpected information. Linguistic Typology 1.1:33-52. What an innatist argument should look like. in T. Haukioja, M-L Helasvuo, and M. Miestamo, eds., SKY 1997 (1997 Yearbook of the Linguistic Association of Finland), pp. 7-24. 1996. Penutian in the bipartite stem belt: Disentangling areal and genetic correspondences. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Historical Topics in Native American Languages, pp. 37-54 (invited paper). 1994. Grammaticalization and linguistic theory. Proceedings of the 1993 Mid-America Linguistics Conference and Conference on Siouan/Caddoan Languages, pp. 1-22. Boulder: Dept. of Linguistics, University of Colorado (invited keynote address). 1992. The Sino-Tibetan languages. W. Bright, ed., International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, vol 3, pp. 445-7. NY: Oxford University Press. Sunwar copulas. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 15:1.31-38. The historical status of the conjunct/disjunct pattern in Tibeto-Burman. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 25:39-62. 1991. The origins of verb serialization in Modern Tibetan. Studies in Language 15:1.1-23. Event construal and case role assignment. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 338-353. (Invited paper). Chronological strata of suffix classes in the Klamath verb. International Journal of American Linguistics 57:426- 445. 1990. Ergativity and the cognitive model of event structure in Lhasa Tibetan. Cognitive Linguistics 1.3:289-321. 1989. Verb agreement in Proto-Tibeto-Burman. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 52:315- 33. (Chinese tr. appeared as "Yuanshi Zang-Mianyu dungcide rencheng fanchou", Minzu Yicong 1993.2:34-45, 1993.3:38-42). 1988. (with C. Genetti and N. Rude). Some Sahaptian-Klamath- Tsimshianic lexical sets. William Shipley, eds, In Honor of Mary Haas: From the Haas Festival Conference on Native American Linguistics, pp. 195-224. On the evolution of the Kham agreement paradigm. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 11.2:51-61. 1987. The Sino-Tibetan languages. B. Comrie, ed., The World's Major Languages, pp. 797-810. Croom Helm. Transitivity in grammar and cognition. R. Tomlin, ed., Discourse Relations and Cognitive Units, pp. 53-68. Benjamins. 1986. Invited comment on Wierzbicka, 'Semantics of the "internal dative" in English. Quaderni di Semantica VII, no. 1:140-2. Notes on the history of Tai classifier systems. C. Craig, ed., Noun Classes and Categorization, pp. 437-52. Benjamins. Evidentiality and volitionality in Tibetan. W. Chafe and J. Nichols, eds., Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of Epistemology, pp. 203-13. Ablex. 1985. The analysis-synthesis-lexis cycle in Tibeto-Burman: A case study in motivated change. J. Haiman, ed., Iconicity in Syntax, pp. 367-89. Benjamins. On active typology and the nature of agentivity. F. Plank, ed., Relational Typology, pp. 47-60. Mouton. 1984. Notes on agentivity and causation. Studies in Language 8.2:181-213. Etymological notes on Tibeto-Burman case particles. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 8.l.59-77. 1982. Modern Tibetan: A case study in ergative typology. J. of Linguistic Research 2.1:21-31. Aspect, transitivity, and viewpoint. P. Hopper, ed., Tense-Aspect: Between Semantics and Pragmatics. pp. 167-83. Benjamins. Tangut and Tibeto-Burman morphology. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 7.2:100-8. 1981. The category of direction in Tibeto-Burman. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 6.1:83-102. Parameters of empathy. J. of Linguistic Research 1.3:40-49. An interpretation of split ergativity and related patterns. Language 57.3:626-57.

Edited volume:

Special issue of the International Journal of American Linguistics on Penutian languages, co-edited with Victor Golla.

Notes, reviews, and papers in conference proceedings:

to appear. Argument structure of Klamath bipartite stems. Proc. of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Syntax and Semantics in Indigenous Languages of the Americas. 1996. rev. of R.M.W. Dixon, Ergativity. Journal of Linguistics 32:173-177. 1992. Klamath and Sahaptian numerals. International Journal of American Linguistics 58:235-39. 1990. Diachronic notes on the Klamath verb suffixes. S. DeLancey, ed., Papers from the 1989 Hokan-Penutian Workshop, pp. 18-27. 1990. Notes on evidentiality in Hare. International Journal of American Linguistics 56.152-8. 1990. Tibetan evidence for Nungish metathesis. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 12.2:25-31. 1990. Contour tones from lost syllables in Central Tibetan. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 12.2:33-34. 1990. Cross-linguistic evidence for the structure of the Agent prototype. Papers and reports on child language development, no. 29:141-147. Dept. of Linguistics, Stanford. 1989. rev. of B. Michailovksy, La langue hayu. Language 65:828-32. 1988. Klamath stem structure in genetic and areal perspective. S. DeLancey, ed., Papers from the 1988 Hokan-Penutian Workshop, pp. 31-9. 1987. Klamath and Wintu pronouns. International Journal of American Linguistics 53.461-4. 1987. Morphological parallels between Klamath and Wintu. J. Redden, ed., Proc. of the 1987 Hokan-Penutian Conference, pp. 50-60. Carbondale, IL: Dept. of Linguistics, Southern Illinois University. 1985. Lhasa Tibetan evidentials and the semantics of causation. Proc. of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 65-72. 1984. Transitivity and ergative case in Lhasa Tibetan. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 131-40. 1984. Categories of non-volitional actor in Lhasa Tibetan. A. Zide et. al., eds., Proc. of the Conference on Participant Roles: South Asia and Adjacent Areas, pp. 58-70. IULC. 1984. Agentivity in syntax. Chicago Linguistic Society Parasession on Agentivity and Causation. 1983. rev. of B. Comrie, Language Universals and Linguistic Typology. Language 59.2:406-11. 1982. Agentivity and causation: Data from Newari. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 54-63. 1978. (with Lon Diehl and LaRaw Maran). A localistic account of aspect in Jinghpaw. and The Tibeto-Burman tense-aspect mechanisms. University of Michigan Papers in Linguistics 2.4:49-88.

Book notices and translations:

1991. V. Golla, ed., The Collected Works of Edward Sapir, Vol. VIII: Takelma Texts and Grammar. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 1990. Andronov and Bhakti, Linguistics: A Soviet Approach. American Anthropologist 92:250. 1989. T. Lyman. A Grammar of Mong Njua (Green Miao). Language 65:668-9. G. D‚csy, A Select Catalog of Language Universals. Language 65:423-4. 1988. J.A. Matisoff, The Grammar of Lahu. Language 64.1:213-4. 1985. S-Y. Killingsley, The Grammatical Hierarchy of Malayan Cantonese. Language 62:223. 1984. S. Koshal, Conversational Ladakhi. Language 60:678. B. Trnka, Selected Papers in Structural Linguistics. Language 60:662. 1983. C. Harbsmeier, Aspects of Classical Chinese. Language 59:938-9. 1983. C. Tanz, Studies in the Acquisition of Deictic Terms. Language 59:938-9. 1982. trans. of K. B. Kepping, 'Glagoly napravlennogo dvizhenija v Tangutskom jazyke', appeared as 'Deictic motion verbs in Tangut', Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 6.2:77-82. 1981. S. Koshal, Ladakhi Grammar. Language 57:972. K.B. Kepping, Sun' Tszy v Tangutskom perevodje. Language 57:972-3. Ng. D. Liem, South-East Asian Linguistic Studies. Language 57:974.

Invited lectures and conference papers

(starred items also occur in the list of publications): 2003. The semantic transparency of Klamath bipartite stems. Plenary address to the XIVth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, August 12, 2003. 2003. Complex verb stems in Klamath. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, February 26, 2003. 2002. Relativization in Bodic. Berkeley Linguistics Society, Special Session on Southeast Asian Languages. 1999. Bipartite verb stems in western North America. University of Turku, Finland, October 22, 1999. 1998. The mirative and evidentiality. Panel on Evidentiality, International Pragmatics Association, Reims, July 23, 1998. 1997. Deixis, topicality, and the inverse. Workshop on Inverse Constructions, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Feb. 13, 1997. 1997. An introduction to Localist Grammar. Linguistics Program, Reed College, Feb. 6, 1997. 1996. Minicourse (4 lectures) on Tibeto-Burman linguistics. University of Stockholm, Sept. 16-19, 1996. 1996. Minicourse (5 lectures) on Functional/Cognitive Grammar. University of Uppsala (Sweden), Sept. 9-13, 1996. 1996. Diachronic explanation and synchronic structure. What MIGHT be innate: Perceptual structure in linguistic structure. Invited keynote talks for the Finnish Linguistic Association Symposium on Tacit Assumptions in the Study of Language. Helsinki, Sept. 2-4, 1996. 1996. The bipartite stem belt: Disentangling areal and genetic correspondences. Invited paper for the Special Session of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society. 1995. Argument structure and verb lexicalization patterns in English, Tibetan, and Klamath. Dept. of Linguistics, Rice University, Nov. 1995. 1993. *Grammaticalization and linguistic theory. Keynote address to the 28th Mid-America Linguistics Conference, Boulder, CO, October 15, 1993. 1991. *Event construal and case role assignment. Invited paper for the 17th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 1990. Proto-Kiranti verb agreement in Tibeto-Burman perspective. Dept. of Linguistics, UC Berkeley. *What is grammatical evidence, and how do we interpret it? Language and Prehistory in the Americas Conference, University of Colorado, March 22-25, 1990. The conjunct/disjunct system in Tibeto-Burman. Dept. of Linguistics, Stanford University. *Cross-linguistic evidence for the structure of the Agent prototype. Stanford Child Language Research Forum, April 7, 1990. 1987. Toward a typology of inverse constructions. Dept. of Linguistics, UCSD. Lhasa Tibetan clause organization and the semantic analysis of event structure. Workshop on Cognitive Semantics, UCSD. 1986. The right way to do case grammar. Staff workshop for the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas. Inverse in structural and functional typology. Dept. of Linguistics, Stanford University. 1984. *Transitivity in cognitive grammar. Symposium on Discourse Relations and Cognitive Units, University of Oregon. 1983. *A semantically-driven lexis-analysis-synthesis cycle in Tibeto-Burman. Symposium on Iconicity in Language, Stanford. *Toward a history of Tai classifier systems. Symposium on Categorization and Noun Classification, University of Oregon. 1981. Case marking and verb agreement in localist case grammar. Linguistic Circle, University of Georgia. *Evidentiality and volitionality in Tibetan. Symposium on Evidentiality, U.C. Berkeley. A contrastive analysis: Hmong and English. In-service workshop for the Boulder Valley (CO) Public School System. Also presented to the Colorado TESOL Special Interest Group on Elementary Education. 1979. *Aspect, transitivity, and viewpoint. Linguistic Circle, Cornell University, and Symposium on Tense/Aspect: Between Semantics and Pragmatics, UCLA.

Other conference papers

(starred items also occur in one or another form in the list of publications): 1996. Argument structure of Klamath bipartite stems. SSILA Conference, San Diego, Jan. 7, 1996. 1994. Some Klamath-Maiduan comparative data. Hokan-Penutian Workshop, Eugene, July 9, 1994. 1991. *The development of the classificatory stem category in Klamath. Hokan-Penutian Workshop, Santa Cruz, July 1, 1991. 1989. *Diachronic notes on the Klamath verb suffixes. Hokan- Penutian Workshop, Tucson, July 4, 1989. 1989. *The historical status of the conjunct/disjunct distinction in Tibeto-Burman. 22nd ICSTLL, Honolulu. 1989. *New vs. assimilated knowledge as a semantic and grammatical category. Winter LSA Meeting. 1988. *Verb stem structure in trans-montane Hokan and Penutian languages. Hokan-Penutian Workshop, University of Oregon, June 16, 1988. 1988. On the origins of the Kuki-Chin agreement prefixes. 21st ICSTLL, Lund. 1987. *Klamath-Wintu morphological parallels. Hokan-Penutian Workshop, University of Utah, June 19, 1987. 1986. *Evidentiality in Hare. Athabaskan Workshop, UC Santa Cruz. 1986. Relativization as nominalization in Tibetan and Newari. 19th ICSTLL. 1986. *(with C. Genetti and N. Rude). Klamath-Sahaptian- Tsimshian cognate sets. Haas Festival Conference, UC Santa Cruz. 1984. *Transitivity and ergative case in Lhasa Tibetan. 10th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 1984. Pronominal agreement in Proto-Tibeto-Burman. 194th Meeting of the American Oriental Society. 1984. Versatile verbs in Tibetan. 17th Int. Conf. on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. 1984. *Lhasa Tibetan evidentials and the semantics of causa- tion. 14th Annual Meeting of the Western Conference on Linguistics. 1984. Grammaticalized verbs in Tibetan and Newari. 59th Annual (Winter) Meeting of the LSA. l985. *Agentivity in syntax. Chicago Linguistic Society Parasession on Agentivity and Causation. 1983. *Agentivity and causation: Data from Newari. 9th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 1983. Agent in Universal Grammar. 13th Annual Meeting of the Western Conference on Linguistics. 1983. *Etymological notes on Tibeto-Burman case particles. 16th Int. Conf. on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. 1982. Agentivity and causation: Data from Hare (Athabaskan). 57th Annual (Winter) Meeting of the LSA. 1981. Ergative case in Modern Tibetan. 14th Int. Conf. on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. 1981. *Lhasa Tibetan: A case study in ergative typology. 56th Annual (Winter) Meeting of the LSA. 1980. The localist account of transitivity. 55th Annual (Winter) Meeting of the LSA. 1980. *The category of direction in Tibeto-Burman. 13th Int. Conf. on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. 1979. Viewpoint, attention flow, and subject coding proper- ties. 54th Annual (Winter) Meeting of the LSA. 1978. Mood particles in Sino-Tibetan. 11th Int. Conf. on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. 1978. The Mandarin aspectual particles. Symposium on Tense/Aspect, Brown University. 1978. *Empathy and Jinghpaw agreement. 53rd Annual (Winter) Meeting of the LSA. 1977. From ergative to accusative in Tibeto-Burman. 10th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. 1977. *(with Lon Diehl and LaRaw Maran) 'A localistic account of aspect in Jinghpaw' and 'The Tibeto-Burman tense/aspect mechanisms'. Symposium on Time, Tense, and Aspect, University of Michigan.