George Aaron Broadwell

Office: Arts & Sciences Building, Room 239
Ph: (518) 442-4711
E-mail: g.broadwell@albany.edu

Ph.D., UCLA, 1990

Interests: Linguistics, syntax
Areas: North America, Mesoamerica

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Linguistic anthropologist with primary research interest in syntactic theory and language and cognition. Area specialization is American Indian languages, with research in Choctaw, Timucua, Trique, and Zapotec.

I am a field linguist, with an interest in integrating descriptive and theoretical studies on endangered and poorly understood languages, primarily Native American languages.

My recent work in syntactic theory has focused on complex predication, binding theory, lexical semantics, and syntactic applications of optimality theory. Click here for some links of linguistic interest.

Teaching

I frequently teach the field methods in linguistics course for our department. Our 1996 field methods course involved creating a series of web pages on the Mon language, which you can click here to see.

For a guide to writing linguistics papers you can download a PDF file here.

Research of George Broadwell

Follow this link for some current research and manuscripts.

Select Publications

Book

Vidal López, Román. (narrator.) 2009. The origin of the sun and moon: A Copala Triqui legend. Transcribed and edited by George Aaron Broadwell, Kosuke Matsukawa, Edgar Martín del Campo, Ruth Scipione, and Susan Perdomo. Munich: LINCOM Europa.



Broadwell, George A. 2006. A Choctaw reference grammar.  Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 

Book Chapters

2006
Broadwell, George A. 2006. Valence, information structure, and passive constructions in Kaqchikel.  in L. Kulikov, A. Malchukov, and P. de Swart, eds. Case, Valency, and Transitivity. John Benjamins.

2005
Broadwell, George A. (2005) Choctaw. in Heather Hardy and Janine Scancarelli, eds. Native languages of the southeastern United States, pp.157-199. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Choctaw. In The native languages of the southeastern United States. Heather Hardy and Janine Scancarelli (eds). Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

2001
Optimal order and pied-piping in San Dionicio Zapotec. In Formal and Empirical Issues in Optimality Theoretic Syntax. Peter Sells (ed). Stanford: CSLI Publications.

2000
Choctaw directionals and the syntax of complex predication. In Argument realization. Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (eds). Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

Look for the stick: Some remarks on globalization and language endangerment. In Lectures on endangered languages, 2nd ed. Osamu Miyaoka (ed). Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim Publication C002.

Encyclopedia articles

2005
Broadwell, George A. (2005).  Zapotecan languages.  Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition. Elsevier.

Broadwell, George A. (2005).  Muskogean languages.  Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition. Elsevier.

Journal articles

2002
Broadwell, George Aaron and Lachlan Duncan.  A new passive in Kaqchikel.  Linguistic Discovery, 1(2).

1998
Bickmore, Lee S. and George A. Broadwell. High tone docking in Sierra Juárez Zapotec. International Journal of American Linguistics, 64:37-67.