Lisa Green
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
office: (413) 577-0937
fax: (413) 545-2792
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Selected publications
Books
(In Preparation) Language and the African American Child: Mastering the System. Cambridge University Press.
(2002) African American English: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge University Press.
Journal Articles
(To appear) Roeper, Thomas and Lisa Green. “Node Labels and Features: Stable and Unstable Dialects and Variation in Acquisition.” Linguistic Variation Yearbook 7, 1-26.
(2007) “The Debate about African Influence on African American English: Discourse and Rhetorical Strategies in Ex-Slave Narratives and Prison Work Songs.” International Journal of Africana Studies 12, 65-79.
(2007) “Syntactic Variation.” In Robert Bayley and Ceil Lucas. Sociolinguistic Variation: Theories, Methods, and Applications.
(2007) “NPs in Aspectual Be Constructions.” In Marlyse Baptista and Jacqueline Gueron (eds.) Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Account. John Benjamins. 403-420.
(2007) Green, Lisa and Thomas Roeper. “The Acquisition Path for Aspect: Remote Past and Habitual in Child African American English.” Language Acquisition. 269-313.
(2006) “African American English.” Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas. Macmillan Reference USA.
(2004) “Research on African American English: Origins, Description, Theory, and Practice.” Journal of English Linguistics, 32, 210-229.
(2002) “A Descriptive Study of African American English: Research in Linguistics and Education.” The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 15, 673-690.
(2000) “Aspectual Be-Type Constructions and Coercion in African American English.” Natural Language Semantics, 8, 1-25.
(1998) “Remote Past and States in African American English.” American Speech 73, 115-138.
(1998) Seymour, Harry, Linda Bland-Stewart, and Lisa Green. “Difference Versus Deficit in Child African American English.” Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 27, 97-109.
(1995) “Study of Verb Classes in African American English: Implications for Education.” Linguistics and Education, 7, 65-81.
Selected presentations
“Negative Inversion and Negative Focus in African American English,” New York University Department of Linguistics Colloquium, March 2007.
“Theory and practice: Research on varieties of English and application in educational contexts,” paper presented at the Linguistic Society of Southern Africa/Southern Africa Applied Linguistics Association Annual Meeting, Stellenbosch, South Africa, January 2007.
“-ing as an Agreement Marker in African American English: Implications for Acquisition,” keynote presentation, Texas Linguistic Forum 9, University of Texas, Austin, November 2005.
“Negation and Tense-Aspect Marking in African American English: Early and Adult Grammars,” International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2005.
“Tense-Aspect Distinctions in Child English,” paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA, January 2005.
“Production and Comprehension of Three Be’s in Child African American English,” paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 2004.
“Rhetorical Strategies and Language Use in Ex-Slave Narratives and Prison Songs,” paper to be presented at the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Panel on Pidgins and Creoles/Speech Varieties, Harvard University, April 2004.
“Syntactic and Semantic Patterns in Child African American English,” keynote presentation, SALSA XI, University of Texas, Austin, April 2003.