HANNAH S. SARVASY

UCLA Linguistics webmaster's note:  Dr. Sarvasy has moved to a new post at Australian National University.  You can visit her current web page at  

https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/sarvasy-h

Lecturer, UCLA Linguistics Department

Office: 3122B Campbell

E-mail: hsarvasy at humnet dot ucla dot edu

Linguistic fieldworker with immersion fieldwork experience on Nungon (Papuan), Kim and Bom (Atlantic), and Tashlhiyt (Berber).

RESEARCH

Grammatical analysis and description of previously-undescribed languages (Papuan and Atlantic), linguistic typology,

fieldwork methodology, historical dialectology. Special interests in switch-reference and clause chaining.

TEACHING

Fall 2014: Ling 210A, Ling 20

Winter 2014: Ling 210B, Ling 127

Spring 2014: Ling 1

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS 

Edited volume

Sarvasy, Hannah (ed.). 2014. Non-Spatial Setting in Finisterre-Huon Languages. Special issue of Language Typology and Universals: Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 67:3.

Book chapter

Sarvasy, Hannah. Under contract. “Evidentiality in the Languages of Papua New Guinea.” In Alexandra Aikhenvald (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Papers

Sarvasy, Hannah. Forthcoming, Studies in Language. “Breaking the Clause Chains: Non-Canonical Medial Clauses in Nungon.”

Sarvasy, Hannah. 2014. “Four Finisterre Languages: An Introduction.” In Hannah Sarvasy (ed.), Non-Spatial Setting in Finisterre-Huon Languages, special issue of Language Typology and Universals: Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 67:3, 275-195.

Sarvasy, Hannah. 2014. “Non-Spatial Setting in Nungon.” In Hannah Sarvasy (ed.), Non-Spatial Setting in Finisterre-Huon Languages, special issue of Language Typology and Universals: Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 67:3, 395-432.

Sarvasy, Hannah. 2013 (published 2014). “Across the Great Divide: How Birth-Order Terms Scaled the Saruwaged Mountains in Papua New Guinea.” Anthropological Linguistics 55:3, 234-255.

Sarvasy, Hannah. 2013. “Birth-Order Term Borrowing as Evidence for Historical Interaction Patterns in the Saruwaged Mountains of Papua New Guinea.” In John Henderson, Marie-Eve Ritz, and Celeste Rodríguez (eds.), Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. http://www.als.asn.au

Books

Sarvasy, Hannah. 2009. Yi Hɔ Mɔ Kim! Let’s Speak Kim! The First Kim Primer: A Graphic Introduction to the Kim Language of Sierra Leone. Portland: Linguistics Publishing. (121 pages)

Sarvasy, Hannah. 2009. Yi Hɔ mBomdɛ! Let’s Speak Bom! The First Bom Primer: A Graphic Introduction to the Bom Language of Sierra Leone. Portland: Linguistics Publishing. (137 pages)

Website

Sarvasy, Hannah and Jedd Schrock. 2009. “Documenting Kim and Bom project website.” http://dkb.research.pdx.edu/

Community-distributed literature

Sarvasy, Hannah. 2013. Nungon draft dictionary.

Sarvasy, Hannah (ed.). 2013. Nungon draft texts collection.

Sarvasy, Hannah. 2008. Kim Komix: three installments of Kim-language illustrated stories.

SELECTED NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS 

Sarvasy, Hannah. 2011. “The Building Permit.” Narrative Magazine Fall 2011.
http://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/fall-2011/building-permit

Sarvasy, Hannah. 2010. “The Missing Man of Kim Country.” Narrative Magazine Winter 2010.
http://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/winter-2010/missing-man-kim-country

Sarvasy, Hannah. 2007. “Een Avond in de Mozartlaan.” Vrij Nederland January 20, 2007.
http://www.hannahsarvasy.com/comics.html

PRESS VIDEOS 

Nicholson, Chris V. 2009. “Linguist’s Preservation Kit Has New Digital Tools.” The New York Times, July 28, 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMFUBlEylj4

Childs, Bart. “Lost Voices.” Voice of America News video blog series on Documenting Kim and Bom project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYGV-4Mqn6s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QswJDmzSua8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHN6mDDlTqs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84S9pZozGj4