Stephen A. Marlett

SIL International (Summer Institute of Linguistics), Dallas, TX
University of North Dakota (adjunct faculty), Grand Forks, ND

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Curriculum Vitae: English (PDF), Spanish  

 
Recent publications:  

 

2010. Semantic and syntactic subcategorization in Seri: Recipients and addressees. In Donna B. Gerdts, John C. Moore and Maria Polinsky (eds.), Hypothesis A/Hypothesis B: Linguistic explorations in honor of David M. Perlmutter, 293-321. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

2008. Rittma Urquía Sebastián with Stephen A. Marlett. Yine. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 38.3: 365-369.

2008. Stress, extrametricality and the minimal word in Seri. Linguistic Discovery 6.1.

2008. (with Elizabeth D. Merrill). Counting. The Zapotec Grammar Files, eds. Cheryl A. Black, H. Andrew Black, and Stephen A. Marlett. [www.sil.org/mexico/workpapers/WP001-PDF/CountingZapotec.pdf]

2008. (with Valerie Martínez). Nouns. The Zapotec Grammar Files, eds. Cheryl A. Black, H. Andrew Black, and Stephen A. Marlett. [http://www.sil.org/mexico/workpapers/WP001-PDF/NounsZapotec.pdf ]

2008. (with Donna B. Gerdts, eds.). Issue of International Journal of American Linguistics about denominal verbs. Vol.  74 (4),  October 2008  (pp. 409-528).

2008. (with Donna B. Gerdts, eds.). Introduction: The form and function of denominal verb constructions. International Journal of American Linguistics 74 (4): 409-22.

2008. Denominal verbs in Seri. International Journal of American Linguistics 74 (4): 471-88.

2008. (with Velma B. Pickett and María Villalobos Villalobos). Zapoteco del Istmo (Juchitán). Ilustraciones fonéticas de lenguas amerindias, ed. Stephen A. Marlett. Lima: SIL International y Universidad Ricardo Palma.
[www.lengamer.org/publicaciones/trabajos/zapoteco_del_istmo_afi.pdf ]

2008. The phasal verb construction in Seri. In Proceedings of the Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America-III (25-27 October 2007). Austin: University of Texas. [http://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/cilla3/Marlett_CILLA_III.pdf]

2008. Fanny Chango Masaquiza with Stephen A. Marlett. Salasaca Quichua. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 38.2: 223-227.

2008. The form and use of names in Seri. International Journal of American Linguistics 74.1: 47-82.

2008. The Seri and Salinan connection revisited. International Journal of American Linguistics. 74.3: 393–99.

2008. The implications of language documentation for an endangered but vibrant language community: a historical perspective. Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics , University of North Dakota Session , vol. 48 .

Work in progress:

A not-so-short grammar of Seri (drafts of various chapters --- input invited).

Some recent (as yet) unpublished presentations:

"The verb and its non-argument satellites in Seri." April 2009. Workshop on the Structure and Consituency of the Languages of hte Americas 14. Purdue University. (Handout)

"Nominal coordination in Seri." 2008. SSILA meeting, Chicago. (Handout)

"La semántica léxica contrastiva y los diccionarios bilingües." 2009. II Encuentro de Lenguas Indígenas Americanas. 17 September 2009, Resistencia, Argentina.

In press. Introductions and translations for three essays by Seri writers (René Montaño Herrera, "Leatherback sea turtle -- Xiica Cmotomanoj"; Lorenzo Herrera Casanova, "Those who had Hast Quita as their birthplace"; Francisco Xavier Morenoa Herrera, "Twin peaks -- Hast Cacöla", in David Kozak (ed.) Inside dazzling mountains. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Materials for teaching linguistics in Spanish (Materiales para enseñar la lingüística en español): www.sil.org/capacitar.

Materials for which I have been especially responsible: Curso básico de fonología.

Seri texts (Mary B. Moser and Stephen A. Marlett, compilers). [This work has been supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (BCS-0110676).]

 
Bibliography of academic works on Seri language and culture, and other related materials. For other on-line information about the Seri language, see also the SIL-Mexico website and the Seri page on www.lengamer.org.

 

Seri Dictionary and Grammar: trilingual (Seri, Spanish, English), 944 pages in length and contains illustrative sentences and a short grammar (about 120 pages).

Mary B. Moser and Stephen A. Marlett, compilers. 2005. Comcáac quih yaza quih hant ihíip hac: Diccionario seri-español-inglés. Hermosillo, Sonora, and México, D.F.: Universidad de Sonora and Plaza y Valdés Editores. [See below.]

Dictionary as it went to the publisher in 2005

Errata sheet for the dictionary

Some special dictionary-derived items (see also other items listed under Seri at www.lengamer.org):

Lists of species:

www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/smarlett/