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 Aissen is a Professor Emirata 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][4] and for her work on differential object marking.
Biography
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]
In 1983, Aissen joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz.[2] Since 1995, she has been making trips to Chiapas to teach workshops in syntax to linguistics students who are native Mayan language speakers.[2]
Honors
On January 3, 2008, she became a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.[5] 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.[6]
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. "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
- ↑ "https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=aissen". linguistics.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-19. External link in
|title=(help) - 1 2 3 4 5 Rappaport, Scott; 459-2496, Staff Writer. "Saving Endangered Languages". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
- ↑ Aissen, Judith. "On the syntax of obviation". Language. 73 (4): 705–750. ISSN 1535-0665. doi:10.1353/lan.1997.0042.
- ↑ "judith aissen - Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
- ↑ Scott Rappaport (13 January 2008). "Judith Aissen named Fellow of Linguistic Society of America". Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ↑ Gutiérrez-Bravo, Rodrigo; Mikkelsen, Line; & Potsdam, Eric. (2011). Representing Language: Essays in Honor of Judith Aissen Location: Linguistics Research Center. Linguistics Research Center, (0-9836-9380-3).