Education

• Ph.D., Linguistics, (expected June 2004)
  Dissertation Title: The Morphosyntax of Subjects in Macuiltianguis Zapotec
  Co-chairs: Pamela Munro and Timothy Stowell
  University of California, Los Angeles
  My dissertation explores the morphological and syntactic representation of subjects in Macuiltianguis Zapotec, an Otomanguean language of Oaxaca. I am investigating three issues in particular: case assignment, reflexives and preverbal argument positions.
  
  
• Bachelor of Arts with high honors, Plan II Honors Program (1996)
  University of Texas at Austin

Professional Experience

• Lecturer/Part-Time Faculty, Department of English, California State University, Los Angeles (Summer 2002-Present)

Conference Presentations

• "Experiencer Subjects in Macuiltianguis Zapotec." Paper presented at the Conference on Oto-Manguean and Oaxacan Languages; Berkeley, CA, March 2004.
• "Diagnosing (Covert) Subjects in Macuiltianguis Zapotec." Paper presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA); Boston, MA, January 2004.
• [Heriberto Avelino, JF, Pamela Munro & Aaron Huey Sonnenschein] "Covert Subjects in Zapotecan." Paper presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA); Boston, MA, January 2004.
• "On the Interpretation of Demonstratives in Macuiltianguis Zapotec." Paper presented at LASSO 31, Los Angeles, CA, October 20002.
• "The Phonetic Cues of Stress in Macuiltianguis Zapotec." Paper presented at LASSO 29, Puebla, Mexico, October 2000.
• "Stress in Macuiltianguis Zapotec." Paper presented at La Voz Indígena de Oaxaca, UCLA, May, 2000.
• "Pre-Verbal Subjects in Macuiltianguis Zapotec." Paper presented at the 1999 annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America; Los Angeles, January 1999.
• "Topic, Focus and Case Assignment in Northern Zapotec." Paper presented at the Mid-America Linguistics Conference 1998; Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, October 1998.
• "Pre-Verbal Structures in a Verb-Initial Language." Paper presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics 1998; Arizona State University, Tempe, October 1998.
• "Syntax of Negative Inversion in Non-Standard English." Paper presented at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 17; University of British Columbia, February 1998.
• "An OT Analysis of Consonant Mutations in Malagasy." Paper presented at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association IV; UCLA, April 1997.

Publications

• "Cha Cha Cha" (to appear). Working Papers in Lakhota, Pamela Munro (ed.); UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics.
• "Syntax of Negative Inversion in Non-Standard English" (1999). The Proceedings of the Seventeenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Kimary Shahin, Susan Blake, & Eun-Sook Kim (eds.); CSLI, Stanford.

Courses Taught

California State University, Los Angeles (Department of English)

• English 401, English Language in America
• English 301, Introduction to Language
• English 101, Composition 1

University of California, Los Angeles (as a Graduate Student Teaching Fellow)

• Linguistics 98T, Language Invention (UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellows)
• Linguistics 20, Introduction to Linguistics
• Linguistics 1, Introduction to Language

Teaching Assistantships (University of California, Los Angeles)

• Linguistics 127, Syntactic Typology and Universals, Anoop Mahajan
• Linguistics 125, Semantics, Terence Parsons, Edward Keenan
• Linguistics 120B, Syntax 1, Dominique Sportiche/Ed Stabler, Timothy Stowell
• Linguistics 110, Introduction to Historical Linguistics, Russell Schuh
• Linguistics 1, Introduction to Language, Russell Schuh, Anna Szabolcsi
• Honors 56, Language as a Window to the Mind, UCLA Honors Collegium, Susan Curtiss

Research Assistantships

• Linguistic Consultant, History Teachers of ELL Students Institute
  Summer 2001, UCLA
• Research Assistant, UCLA Latin American Center
  Spring 2000, Roger Andersen
  "Quechua Language Research Project"
• Research Assistant, UCLA Department of Linguistics
  July 1, 1998 to June 30, 1999, Pamela Munro
  "San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec Dictionary Project"
• Research Assistant, UCLA Department of Linguistics
  Winter 1998, Hilda Koopman
• Research Assistant, UCLA Department of Linguistics
  Summer 1997, Edward Keenan
• Research Assistant, UCLA Department of Linguistics
  Spring 1997, Bruce Hayes

Languages

Fieldwork (families; stocks / principal speaker locations) Dates. Primary Consultants

• Aymara (Aymaran / Bolivia) 2000-2001. Esperanza Sahonero
• Lakhota (Siouan / South Dakota) 1998-1999. Mary Iron Teeth
• Quechua of Cochabamba (Quechuan / Bolivia) 1999-2001. Jaime Daza (classes/fieldwork)
• Zapotec of San Pablo Macuiltianguis (Zapotecan; Otomanguean / Oaxaca) 1998-present. Ignacio Cano, Margarita Martínez

Languages Studied

• Ancient Greek (4 semesters, UT-Austin)
• French (1 quarter, UCLA)
• Latin (2 semesters, UT-Austin)
• Spanish (2 quarters, UCLA)

Grants, Fellowships, and Honors

• UCLA Institute of American Cultures 2001-2002 Research Grant Program in Ethnic Studies.
  Project Title: "Macuiltianguis Zapotec Narratives"
• Research Mentorship, (UCLA) 1999-2000
• Latin American Center Small Grant (UCLA) 1999-2000
  Project Title: "Identifying Prominent Syllables in Macuiltianguis Zapotec"
• Summer Research Mentorship (UCLA) 1999
• Summer Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship (Title VI) for Quechua (UCLA), 1999
• University Fellowship, (UCLA) 1996-1997
• Special Honors in Plan II, (UT-Austin) 1996
• Model Senior Thesis, Plan II Honors Program, (UT-Austin) 1996
• Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter of Texas, 1996
• National Merit Finalist Scholarship, 1991-1995

Service

• President, Graduate Linguistics Circle, UCLA, 1999-2000
• Member, Planning Committee for the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics XIX, 2000
• Member, Linguistics Department, Newsletter Committee, 1999
• Vice-President, Graduate Linguistics Circle, UCLA, 1997-1998
• Member, UCLA Linguistics Teaching Evaluation Committee, 1996-1997

References