Lindsay Kay Butler

Interests top

Morphology, Syntax, Distributed Morphology, Minimalism, number, field-based psycholinguistics, word order and agreement, language production, language documentation and revitalization

Education top

Degrees

• M.A., Ph.D., Linguistics, minor area Cognitive Science
  2011 - University of Arizona
• M.A., Foreign Language and Literature, concentration in Linguistics
  2005 - University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
  
• B.A., Spanish, minor in Business Administration
  2002 - University of Wisconsin – La Crosse

• Visiting Researcher, Junior Specialist
  2010-2011 - Language Research Center, UC Santa Cruz
• Visiting Graduate Student
  Fall 2009 - Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
• Coursework in Yucatec Maya
  Summer 2004 - Consortuim for Latin American Studies, Duke University and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• Exchange student
  Fall 2001 - Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico

Research top

Field-based psycholinguistics

• Studying Language Production in the Field: Accessibility Effects on Variation
  2009-2012 - Graduate and Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, with Dr. T. Florian Jaeger and Dr. Juergen Bohnemeyer

• The linguistic and cultural preservation of Shiwilu
  2007-2008 - Fulbright student grantee to Peru
• Anaphora and logophoricity in Aghem (Cameroon)
  Summer 2007
• Gender markers in Yucatec Maya (Mexico)
  January 2005 - Center for Latin American Studies grantee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• The Kawapanan Project: Documenting Shiwilu and Shawi
  2009-present - with Dr. Pilar Valenzuela and Dr. Scott Farrar
• Anyplace Access to Language Maintenance and Promotion for Endangered Language Communities Project
  Summer 2009 - Curriculum development, University of Arizona

Papers top

Peer reviewed

• The DP-adjoined plural in Yucatec Maya and the syntax of plural marking
  2011 - Under Review
• Effects of conceptual accessibility on constituent order, voice and verb form in Yucatec Maya and Spanish
  2011 - In preparation, with T. Florian Jaeger, Carlos Gomez Gallo and Juergen Bohnemeyer

• Learning to express visual contrasts in the production of referring expressions in Yucatec Maya
  2011 - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
• Allomorphy and Impoverishment in Shiwilu
  To appear - Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on American Indian Languages, UC Santa Barbara
• Exceptional blocking of Yucatec Maya vowel harmony
  2005 - LSO Working Papers in Linguistics 5: Proceedings of WIGL 2005, 25-39

• Explaining logophoricity, with special reference to Aghem
  2009 - Preliminary Paper II, University of Arizona
• Diccionario Shiwilu-Castellano, Castellano-Shiwilu (Shiwilu-Spanish, Spanish-Shiwilu Dictionary)
  2008 - Distributed in Jeberos, Loreto, Peru in fulfillment of research for Fulbright IIE student grant

Presentations top

• Non Number plurals
  To be presented November 11-13, 2011 - 42nd meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, University of Toronto
• Allomorphy and Impoverishment in Shiwilu
  April 15, 2011 - 14th Workshop on American Indian Languages, UC Santa Barbara
• When number doesn't Agree: Evidence from Yucatec Maya
  January 7, 2011 at the 85th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburgh
  
• Argument encoding and valence changing in Kawapanan
  January 10, 2009 - with Pilar Valenzuela, SSILA Annual Meeting, San Francisco
• Exceptional blocking of vowel harmony in Yucatec Maya: An argument for a syntactic approach to word formation
  February 25, 2005 - Workshop in General Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
  

Posters top

• Learning to express visual contrasts in the production of referring expressions in Yucatec Maya
  July 20, 2011, with T. Florian Jaeger and Juergen Bohnemeyer, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
• Psycholinguistics and under-represented languages: Number in Yucatec Maya sentence production
  April 24, 2011, with T. Florian Jaeger and Juergen Bohnemeyer, 29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, University of Arizona
• Accessibility-based sentence production in Yucatec Maya
  August 5-6, 2010 - with T. Florian Jaeger, Katrina Furth, Alice Lemiuex, Carlos Gomez Gallo, Juergen Bohnemeyer, IEICE Workshop of the Technical Committee on Thought and Language, Tokyo, Japan
• Psycholinguistics in the field: Accessibility-based production in Yukatek Maya
  March 18-20, 2010 - with T. Florian Jaeger, Katrina Furth, Alice Lemiuex, Carlos Gomez Gallo, Juergen Bohnemeyer, CUNY 2010: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York