Adam Werle

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

PO Box 30121 Saanich Centre

Victoria, BC V8X 5E1, Canada

werle at uvic dot ca

 

Education

 

1998–present      PhD candidate, Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 

1996–1997         Exchange student at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

 

1993–1998         BA, Linguistics, University of Washington

                           BA, International Studies, University of Washington

 

Employment, Teaching, and Other Professional Experience

 

2007–present      Linguist for the Ditidaht Studies Program, Ditidaht Community School (Nitinaht Lake, BC).

 

2006                   Co-organizer with Dr. Leslie Saxon of the 2nd Wakashan Linguistics Conference. 5–6 May 2006, University of Victoria.

 

2005–2006         Visiting scholar at the University of Victoria while writing dissertation and researching Ditidaht. Participant in Kwak’wala Circle.

 

2003 … 2004     Teaching Assistant for Professor Elisabeth Selkirk, Linguistics 113: Language and Diversity in the US. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

 

2003                   Teaching Assistant for Professor John McCarthy, Linguistics 101: People and their Language. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

 

2002–present      Instructor, Ditidaht language. Malachan Reserve and Ditidaht Community School (Nitinaht Lake, BC).

 

2002–present      Co-manager with Benjamin Barrett of the Wakashan Linguistics webpage and discussion list (depts.washington.edu/wll2).

 

2002                   Instructor, Native American Studies 102: Makah Language, and Linguistics 188: Makah Linguistic Structure and History. Northwest Indian College.

 

2002                   Visiting scholar at the University of Washington while conducting fieldwork on Makah (Neah Bay, WA) and Ditidaht (Nitinaht Lake, BC; ongoing).

 

2001                   Assistant to Dr. Barbara Partee. Consulted on semantic theory for Dr. William Hagamen, and provided comments on successive drafts of a paper by Drs. Partee, Hagamen, and Vladimir Borschev.

 

2001                   Assistant organizer, with Ana Arregui, for SULA 2001 (The Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas conference), under Dr. Angelika Kratzer and Dr. Lisa Matthewson. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

 

1999 … 2005     Instructor, Linguistics 201: Introduction to Linguistic Theory. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

 

Publications, Reviews, and Working Papers

 

in preparation      Clitic Prosody in Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian. PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

 

2007                   Ditidaht Vowel Alternations and Prosody. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 52:1/2. 71–104.

 

2007                   Review, Tanya Reinhart 2006. Interface Strategies: Optimal and Costly Computation. Linguist List 18.913. 27 March 2007.

 

2005                   Book Notice, Susann Fischer 2002. The Catalan Clitic System: A Diachronic Perspective on its Syntax and Phonology. Language 81:2. 523–524.

 

2004                   Enclisis and Proclisis in Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian. Vineeta Chand, Ann Kelleher, Angelo Rodríguez, and Benjamin Schmeiser, eds. Proceedings of the 23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville: Cascadilla Press. 801-814.

 

2003                   Joe Pater and Adam Werle. Direction of Assimilation in Child Consonant Harmony. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 48:3/4. 385–408.

 

2003                   Review, Linda van Bergen 2003. Pronouns and Word Order in Old English: With Particular Reference to the Indefinite Pronoun man. Linguist List 14.1935. 15 July 2003.

 

2002                   A Typology of Negative Indefinites. Mary Andronis, Erin Debenport, Anne Pycha and Keiko Yoshimura, eds. Papers from the 38th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, vol. 2: CLS 38-2: The Panels. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 127–143.

 

2002                   The Southern Wakashan One-foot Word. Carrie Gillon, Naomi Sawai, and Rachel Wojdak, eds. University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics 9: Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages. Vancouver: UBCWPL. 382–397.

 

2001                   Joe Pater and Adam Werle. Typology and Variation in Child Consonant Harmony. Caroline Féry, Antony Dubach Green, and Ruben van de Vijver, eds. Linguistics in Potsdam 12: Proceedings of the 5th Holland Institute of Linguistics Phonology Conference. Potsdam: Linguistics in Potsdam. 119–139.

 

2001                   Variation in Child Consonant Harmony. Graham Horwood and Se-Kyung Kim, eds. Rutgers Linguistics Working Papers 2. New Brunswick: RuLing Papers. 197–205.

 

2000                   Semantic Incorporation in Lillooet. Suzanne Gessner and Sunyoung Oh, eds. University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics 3: Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages. Vancouver: UBCWPL. 219–225.

 

Editing

 

2006                   Leah Bateman, Michael O’Keefe, Ehren Reilly, and Adam Werle, eds. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 32: Papers in Optimality Theory III. Amherst: GLSA.

 

2003                   Jan Anderssen, Paula Menéndez-Benito, and Adam Werle, eds. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 28: The Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas. Amherst: GLSA.

 

2001                   Ji-Yung Kim and Adam Werle, eds. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 25: The Proceedings of SULA: The Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas. Amherst: GLSA.

 

Invited Talks

 

2006                   The Syntax-phonology Interface and Clisis in Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian and Ditidaht. Linguistics 505/510. Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins, instructor. University of Victoria. 29 September 2006.

 

2004                   Ditidaht Boundary Epenthesis. 1st Wakashan Linguistics Conference. 9 August 2004. University of British Columbia.

 

2002                   Southern Wakashan Clitic Orders. University of British Columbia Linguistics Department colloquium. 25 October 2002.

 

Conference Presentations

 

2007                   Second-position clitics and second-position suffixes in Southern Wakashan. Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the America Annual Meeting. 7 January 2007

 

2007                   Three approaches to clitic reordering in Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. 6 January 2007.

 

2006                   Loren Billings, Daniel Kaufman, and Adam Werle. Rightward-subordinating Enclitics in Wakashan and Austronesian Languages. 2nd Wakashan Linguistics Conference. 5 May 2006. University of Victoria.

 

2004                   Ditidaht Boundary Epenthesis. HUMDRUM 2004 (Hopkins / Rutgers / UMass joint class meeting). 1 May 2004. Rutgers University.

 

2004                   Enclisis and Proclisis in Serbian/Croatian. 23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. 24 April 2004. University of California, Davis.

 

2004                   Enclisis and Proclisis in Serbian/Croatian. Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 13: The Columbia Meeting. 27 February 2004. University of South Carolina.

 

2003                   The Phonetic Correlates of Vowel Length in Makah. 38th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages. 13 August 2003. Upper St’át’imc Language, Culture and Education Society, Lillooet, BC.

 

2002                   Sonority-determined Clitic Order. Western Conference on Linguistics 2002. 1 November 2002. University of British Columbia.

 

2002                   The Southern Wakashan One-foot Word. 37th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages. 14 August 2002. Western Washington University and Northwest Indian College.

 

2002                   A Typology of Negative Indefinites. 38th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. 27 April 2002. University of Chicago.

 

2002                   Makah Clitic Blending. HUMDRUM 2002 (Hopkins / Rutgers / UMass joint class meeting). 20 April 2002. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

 

2001                   The Phonology of Erosion. HUMDRUM 2001 (Hopkins / Rutgers / UMass joint class meeting). 6 May 2001. Johns Hopkins University.

 

2001                   Joe Pater and Adam Werle. Typology and Variation in Child Consonant Harmony. 5th Holland Institute of Linguistics Phonology Conference. 12 January 2001. University of Potsdam.

 

2000                   A Typology of Negative Indefinites. UMass / UConn / MIT Semantics Workshop. 21 October 2000. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

 

2000                   Semantic Incorporation in Lillooet. 35th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages. 17 August 2000. Mount Currie, BC.

 

2000                   Variation in Child Consonant Harmony. HUMDRUM 2000 (Hopkins / Rutgers / UMass joint class meeting). 8 April 2000. Rutgers University.

 

Honors and Fellowships

 

1998–2005         Graduate Fellowship and Assistantship, Linguistics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 

1998                   Certificate of High Scholarship, University of Washington

 

1996–1997         Tamaki Foundation Scholarship for study in Japan

 

Languages Studied

 

advanced             Ditidaht, French, Japanese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish

 

basic                   Ancient Greek, Classical Japanese, Egyptian, German, Gothic, Kwak’wala, Latin, Makah, Old English, Old Norse, Portuguese

 

last updated 17 February 2007