Stephen A. Marlett

Organizational affiliations:

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

Contact: or (in case of problems due to filters, etc.)
 
Curriculum Vitae: English (PDF), Spanish  

 
Recent publications:  

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

 

 

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 .

2007. Bringing it home: the implications of documentation for a vibrant endangered language. Proceedings of conference on language documentation and linguistic theory , eds. Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond and David Nathan, pp. 157-163. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

2007. (editor with René Montaño Herrera and Francisco Xavier Moreno Herrera). Comcaac quih ziix quih ocoaaj hac. [Enciclopedia seri.] http://www.lengamer.org/admin/language_folders/seri/user_uploaded_files/links/File/Enciclopedia/EncicloSeri.htm

2007. (compiler) Ziix haptc iiha comcaac quih ocoaaj quih ano yaii. [A collection of texts] http://www.lengamer.org/admin/language_folders/seri/user_uploaded_files/links/File/Acervo_de_Textos/acervo_de_textos.htm

2007. "Las relaciones entre las lenguas "hokanas" en México: ¿Cuál es la evidencia?" Memorias del III Coloquio Internacional de Lingüística Mauricio Swadesh , eds. Cristina Buenrostro y otros, pp. 165-192. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México e Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas.

2006. La evolución del alfabeto seri. Octavo Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste. Hermosillo, Sonora, México.

2006. (editor) Situaciones sociolingüísticas de lenguas amerindias. Lima: SIL International and Universidad Ricardo Palma. Online: http://lengamer.org/publicaciones/socio.php.

2006. La situación sociolingüística de la lengua seri en 2006. In Marlett, ed. Situaciones sociolingüísticas de lenguas amerindias. Lima: SIL International and Universidad Ricardo Palma. Online: http://lengamer.org/publicaciones/trabajos/seri_socio.pdf.

2006. (editor) Ilustraciones fonéticas de lenguas amerindias. Lima: SIL International and Universidad Ricardo Palma. Online: http://lengamer.org/publicaciones/ilusfon.php.

2006. (with F. Xavier Moreno Herrera; and Genaro G. Herrera Astorga). Seri . Ilustraciones fonéticas de lenguas amerindias. Lima: SIL y Universidad Ricardo Palma.

2006. El acento, la extrametricalidad y la palabra mínima en seri. Encuentro de lenguas indígenas americanas: libro de actas. Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina.

2006. (With Mary B. Moser, compilers). Seri texts / Textos seris. http://lengamer.org/admin/language_folders/seri/user_uploaded_files/links/File/Textos/SeriTexts.htm.

2005. (with F. Xavier Moreno Herrera and Genaro G. Herrera Astorga). Seri. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 35.1, pp. 117-121.

2005. A typological overview of the Seri language. Linguistic Discovery 3.1, pp. 54-73.

2001. (With Gastón Salamanca). Curso básico en fonética general. http://www.sil.org/training/capacitar/FONETICA/cursos/CursoBasicoFonetica.stm.

Work in progress:

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

Some recent (as yet) unpublished presentations:

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

In press. "Denominal verbs in Seri." International Journal of American Linguistics. To appear in a special volume of IJAL edited by Donna Gerdts and Stephen Marlett. [Write to me for a copy of the manuscript.]

In press. Rittma Urquía Sebastián with Stephen A. Marlett. Yine. Journal of the International Phonetic Association.

In press. Stress, extrametricality and the minimal word in Seri. Linguistic Discovery.

In press. Semantic and syntactic subcategorization in Seri: Recipients and addressees. (in press) In D. Gerdts, J. Moore y M. Polinsky (eds.), Hypothesis A / Hypothesis B: Linguistic explorations in honor of David M. Perlmutter. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Write to me for a copy of the manuscript.]

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.

Some special dictionary-derived items:

Lists of species:

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