This month’s episode is with Dr. Kate Lindsey. Kate is a professor of linguistics and co-director of the Structures of Under-Researched Languages lab at Boston University. Her research has both theoretical and documentary applications. Her theoretical work focuses on the analysis of underspecification and variation in phonological systems supported primarily by field data. Her dissertation utilized original data from eleven months of fieldwork with Ende speakers of Limol village, Papua New Guinea to explore the interaction of so-called ghost elements pervasive in Ende phonology. Current research projects include extended fieldwork in the South Fly area of Papua New Guinea to support the first reference grammar of Ende, a typological study of the Pahoturi River language family, and theoretical analyses of vowel harmony and phonological reduplication.
caption: Kate Lindsey with elder Kidarga Nakllae and his grandson Kidarga, who is conducting a biographical interview. Limol, Papua New Guinea.
Things mentioned in this episode
- Hupa language
- Chuvash language
- Nen language
- Pahoturi language family
- Idi language
- Ende language
- Ende Tän e Indrang (Light into Ende Tribe)
- Kate’s email: klindsey@bu.edu
- Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook
caption: Kate Lindsey with the Ende Language Committee (Geoff Rowak, Joshua Ben Danipa, Warama Kurupel, Tonny Warama, and Jerry Dareda (far right)) presenting the third dictionary printing.
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