Lindsay Kay Butler

Lindsay Kay Butler

Current contact info:
Department of Linguistics
UC Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077
U.S.A.

lkbutler at email dot arizona dot edu
lindsaykaybutler at gmail dot com

Interests

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

Education

Degrees

• Ph.D., Linguistics, minor area Cognitive Science
  Expected May 2011 - University of Arizona
• M.A., Linguistics
  2008 - 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

Language documentation and revitalization

• The Kawapanan Project: Documenting Shiwilu and Shawi
  2009-present - with Dr. Pilar Valenzuela and Dr. Scott Farrar
• The linguistic and cultural preservation of Shiwilu
  2007-2008 - Fulbright student grantee to Peru
• Anyplace Access to Language Maintenance and Promotion for Endangered Language Communities Project
  Summer 2009 - Curriculum development, University of Arizona
• Fieldwork on anaphora and logophoricity in Aghem (Cameroon)
  Summer 2007
• Fieldwork on gender markers in Yucatec Maya (Mexico)
  January 2005 - Center for Latin American Studies grantee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• Studying Language Production in the Field: Accessibility Effects on Variation
  2009-present - Research Associate, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, with Dr. T. Florian Jaeger and Dr. Juergen Bohnemeyer
  
  

• Linguistics Abstracts
  2005-2007 - Research Assistant/Spanish and Portuguese translation, University of Arizona
• Linguist List
  2005-2006 - Student Editor, Book Reviews, University of Arizona
  

Teaching

Instructor of record

• Linguistics/Psychology 201: Introduction to Linguistics (web-delivered)
  Winter 2009, Summer 2010, University of Arizona
• Individuals and Societies 101: Language
  Summer session 2008, University of Arizona
  
  

• Individuals and Societies 101: Language
  Spring 2009 (Dr. Natasha Warner), Fall 2006 (Dr. Amy Fountain), University of Arizona
• Linguistics/American Indian Studies 210: American Indian Languages
  Fall 2008 (Dr. Shiela Dooley-Collberg), University of Arizona
• Linguistics 100: The diversity of human language
  Fall 2004 (Dr. Bert Vaux), Spring 2005 (Dr. Fred Eckman), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  
  

Presentations

• When number doesn't Agree: Evidence from Yucatec Maya
  to be presented January 7, 2011 at the 2011 LSA Annual Meeting 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

• 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
  
  

Papers

• Accessibility in Yucatec Maya sentence production
  in preparation - Journal for Memory and Language, with T. Florian Jaeger and Juergen Bohnemeyer
• Explaining logophoricity, with special reference to Aghem
  2009 - Preliminary Paper II, University of Arizona
• Syncretism in Shiwilu: Allomorphy and Impoverishment
  2007 - Preliminary Paper I, University of Arizona
• Exceptional Blocking of Yucatec Maya vowel harmony
  2005 - LSO Working Papers in Linguistics 5: Proceedings of WIGL 2005, 25-39
  
  

Fellowships/Grants/Awards

• Social and Behavioral Sciences Dissertation Improvement Grant
  November 2010 - University of Arizona ($800)
• Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Award
  August 2010 - University of Arizona, for travel to IEICE Workshop of the Technical Committee on Thought and Language, August 5-6, 2010 ($500)
• Graduate College Fellowship
  Spring 2010 - Cognitive Science Program, University of Arizona ($5,000)
• J. William Fulbright student grantee to Peru
  August 2007-June 2008 - The Linguistic and Cultural Preservation of Shiwilu ($12,750 plus health and travel expenditures)
• Alice Cozzi Heritage Language Foundation Small Grant
  October 2006 - Publishing and distributing Shiwilu workbook and mini-dictionary, with Dr. Scott Farrar ($500)
• Graduate College Fellowship
  Spring 2006 - Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona ($5,000)
• Graduate Student Travel Award
  November 2004 - Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, For: Fieldwork on Yucatec Maya gender markers ($750)
  
• Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
  March 2004 - Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, For: Intensive coursework in Yucatec Maya (Airfare, tuition, fees, expenses)
  
  

Service Activities

• Coordinating Committee 2011 West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
  Fall 2010-present - University of Arizona
  
• Faculty-Student Liaison
  Spring 2007 - Linguistics Circle Graduate Student Organization, University of Arizona, Spring
  
• Student coordinator
  Fall 2006 - Department of Linguistics Colloquium, University of Arizona
  
• Volunteer
  Summer 2006 - American Indian Language Development Institute, University of Arizona
• Student Representative Graduate Coordinating Committee, Foreign Languages and Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2004-2005
• Volunteer Conversation Partner
  Summer 2001 - English-as-a-Second Language Institute, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse