Lisa Green

Office Hours:

Wednesday 10-11:30, Thursday 11-12:30

Interests:

• Syntax
• Syntactic Variation
• African American English:
  • Acquisition and Development
  • Tense and Aspect
  • Left Periphery Phenomena

Courses:

Spring 2012

• Linguist 201: Introduction to Linguistic Theory
  
• Linguist 594A: Structure of African American English
  

Selected publications

~Books~

• 2011. Language and the African American Child. Cambridge University Press.
• 2002. African American English: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge University Press.
• In Preparation. With Sonja Lanehart and Jennifer Bloomquist (eds.). Oxford Handbook of African American Language. Oxford University Press.

~Papers~

• In preparation. “Force, Focus, and Negation in African American English.”
• 2007. with Tom Roeper. “The Acquisition Path for Aspect: Remote Past and Habitual in Child African American English.” Language Acquisition. 269- 313.
• 2007. with Tom Roeper. “Node Labels and Features: Stable and Unstable Dialects and Variation in Acquisition.” Linguistic Variation Yearbook 7, 1-26.
• 2000. “Aspectual Be-Type Constructions and Coercion in African American English.”Natural Language Semantics, 8, 1-25.