Lisa Green (linguist)

Lisa Green is a linguist specializing in syntax and African American English. She is currently a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[1] She was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2016.[2]

Green received her PhD in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1993.[3] She is the founder and director of the Center for the Study of African American Language.[4]

Green's work has focused on linguistic variation both within and between different dialects of English, with a primary focus on African American English. Her research focuses on syntactic systems in African American English, such as tense and aspect marking, and negation.[5]

Selected publications

Books

  • Green, Lisa. (2011). Language and the African American Child. Cambridge University Press.[6]
  • Green, Lisa. (2002). African American English: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge University Press. 2002.[7]

Selected publications

  • Green, Lisa, & Walter Sistrunk (2015). Syntax and Semantics. In Oxford Handbook of African American Language. Sonja Lanehart (ed.). Oxford University Press.[8]
  • Green, Lisa. (2014). Force, Focus, and Negation in African American English. In Micro-syntactic Variation in North American English. Raffaella Zanuttini and Laurence R. Horn (eds.). Oxford University Press.
  • Green, Lisa, & Tom Roeper (2007). The Acquisition Path for Aspect: Remote Past and Habitual in Child African American English.” Language Acquisition. 269-313.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Lisa Green - UMass Amherst Faculty Webpage". January 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ "List of LSA Fellows by Year of Induction". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  3. ↑ "List of PhD alumni from the Department of Linguistics at UMass Amherst". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Lisa Green - Faculty Webpage". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Google Scholar Lisa J. Green". scholar.google.se. Retrieved 2018-09-02.
  6. ↑ "Language and the African American Child - Cambridge Extra". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  7. ↑ "African American English - Sociolinguistics - Cambridge University Press". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  8. ↑ "The Oxford Handbook of African American English". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  9. ↑ "The Acquisition Path for Tense-Aspect". Language Acquisition. 14: 269–313. doi:10.1080/10489220701471024.
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