Lisa Green (linguist)

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Lisa Green
Education
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst
ThesisTopics in African American English: The verb system analysis (1993)
Websitepeople.umass.edu/lisag

Dr. Lisa Green is a linguist specializing in

Distinguished Professor.[2]

Education

Before beginning her graduate studies in linguistics, Green received a B.S. in English education at Grambling State University and then an M.A. in English at the University of Kentucky.[3] Green then went on to receive a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1993.[4]

Career and research

After completing her Ph.D., Green spent 11 years at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Linguistics,[5] before going on to take up a position in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[5] There she founded and directs the Center for the Study of African American Language,[6][7] a resource for students and educators dedicated to dialect and language-related issues. An enduring goal of Green's is to dispel notions of AAE as a substandard linguistic variety by demonstrating its systematic nature.

Green's work has focused on

negation,[8] as well as first language acquisition of AAE by child speakers.[9]

Honors and awards

Green was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2016.[10]

Selected publications

Books

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

Selected papers

References

  1. ^ "Lisa Green - UMass Amherst Faculty Webpage". January 6, 2017.
  2. ^ "Lisa Green Awarded Distinction by Board of Trustees". 8 August 2020. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  3. ^ "Lisa Green". people.umass.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  4. ^ "List of PhD alumni from the Department of Linguistics at UMass Amherst". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  5. ^ a b "Lisa Green | Department of Linguistics | UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  6. ^ "Lisa Green - Faculty Webpage". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  7. ^ "Center for the Study of African American Language". Retrieved February 21, 2024.
  8. ^ "Google Scholar Lisa J. Green". scholar.google.se. Retrieved 2018-09-02.
  9. ^ Green, Lisa, and Thomas Roeper. “The Acquisition Path for Tense-Aspect: Remote Past and Habitual in Child African American English.” Language Acquisition, vol. 14, no. 3, 2007, pp. 269–313. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20462494.
  10. ^ "List of LSA Fellows by Year of Induction". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  11. ^ "Language and the African American Child - Cambridge Extra". Archived from the original on October 18, 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  12. ^ "African American English - Sociolinguistics - Cambridge University Press". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
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  15. ^ "Lisa Green". people.umass.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
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