Judith Aissen

Judith Aissen
Education Harvard University, PhD, Linguistics, 1974
Occupation Linguist
Known for Mayan languages, syntax, morphology
Website https://people.ucsc.edu/~aissen/

Judith Lillian Aissen (born 4 June 1948) is a professor emerita in linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[1] Her research is focused on the Mayan language Tzotzil.[2] She is particularly known for her analysis of Tzotzil and other Mayan languages having abstract obviation systems akin to those described in Algonquian languages[3] and for her work on differential object marking.

Aissen began to study Mayan languages in 1972 as a graduate student at Harvard University,[2] conducting field research in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas.[2] Her 1974 dissertation on The Syntax of Causative Constructions[4] was published by Garland in 1979.

In 1983, Aissen joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz.[2][5] Since 1995, she has been making trips to Chiapas to teach workshops in syntax to linguistics students who are native Mayan language speakers.[2]

On January 3, 2008, she became a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.[6] In 2011, Aissen's colleagues at University of California, Santa Cruz organized a festschrift in her honor, entitled Representing Language: Essays in Honor of Judith Aissen.[7]

Selected publications

Books

  • Aissen, Judith. The syntax of causative constructions. Vol. 10. Garland Pub., 1979.
  • Aissen, Judith. Tzotzil clause structure. Vol. 7. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012.

Articles

  • Aissen, Judith, and David M. Perlmutter. "Clause reduction in Spanish." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Vol. 2. 1976.
  • Aissen, Judith. "Topic and focus in Mayan." Language (1992): 43-80.
  • Aissen, Judith. "On the syntax of obviation". Language. 73 (1997): 705–750. ISSN 1535-0665. doi:10.1353/lan.1997.0042
  • Aissen, Judith. "Markedness and subject choice in Optimality Theory." Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 17.4 (1999): 673-711.
  • Aissen, Judith. "Differential object marking: Iconicity vs. economy." Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 21.3 (2003): 435-483.

References

  1. ↑ "Faculty Directory". linguistics.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-04.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Rappaport, Scott; 459-2496, Staff Writer. "Saving Endangered Languages". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  3. ↑ "judith aissen - Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  4. ↑ "1970s". Retrieved 2017-09-03.
  5. ↑ "LSA Fellows By Name | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2017-09-03.
  6. ↑ Scott Rappaport (13 January 2008). "Judith Aissen named Fellow of Linguistic Society of America". Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  7. ↑ Rodrigo, Gutiérrez-Bravo,; Line, Mikkelsen,; Eric, Potsdam, (2011-06-15). "Representing Language: Essays in Honor of Judith Aissen". Linguistics Research Center (0-9836–9380-3).



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