Lisa Green (linguist)

Dr. Lisa Green is a linguist specializing in syntax and African American English (AAE). She is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[1] She was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2016.[2] In July 2020 she was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor.[3]

Lisa Green
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst
ThesisTopics in African American English: The verb system analysis (1993)
Websitehttps://people.umass.edu/lisag/

Education

Before beginning her graduate studies in linguistics, Green received a B.S. in English education at Grambling State University and then an M.A. in English at the University of Kentucky.[4] Dr. Green then went on to receive a PhD in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1993.[5]

Dr. Green's work has focused on linguistic variation between different dialects of English, with a primary focus on African American English. Her research focuses on morphosyntactic systems in African American English like tense and aspect marking and negation,[6] as well as first language acquisition of AAE by child speakers.[7]

Career

After completing her PhD, Dr. Green spent 11 years at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Linguistics. [8] Now, she is a Professor in Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [8] Here, she founded and directs the Center for the Study of African American Language, [9] a resource for students and educators dedicated to dialect and language-related issues. An enduring goal of Dr. Green's is to dispel notions of AAE as a substandard linguistic variety by demonstrating its systematic nature.

Selected publications

Books
  • Green, Lisa. (2011). Language and the African American Child. Cambridge University Press.[10]
  • Green, Lisa. (2002). African American English: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge University Press. 2002.[11]

Selected Papers
  • Green, Lisa, & Walter Sistrunk (2015). Syntax and Semantics. In Oxford Handbook of African American Language. Sonja Lanehart (ed.). Oxford University Press.[12]
  • Green, Lisa. (2014). Force, Focus, and Negation in African American English. In Micro-syntactic Variation in North American English. Raffaella Zanuttini and Laurence R. Horn (eds.). Oxford University Press.
  • Green, Lisa, & Tom Roeper (2007). The Acquisition Path for Aspect: Remote Past and Habitual in Child African American English.” Language Acquisition. 269-313.[13]
  • Green, Lisa (2000). “Aspectual Be-Type Constructions and Coercion in African American English.”Natural Language Semantics, 8, 1-25.[14]
  • Green, Lisa, Linda Bland-Stewart, & Harry Seymour (1998). Difference Versus Deficit in Child African American English. In Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. Vol 29 No. 2, p. 96 - 109.[15]

References
  1. "Lisa Green - UMass Amherst Faculty Webpage". January 6, 2017.
  2. "List of LSA Fellows by Year of Induction". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  3. "Lisa Green Awarded Distinction by Board of Trustees". Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  4. "Lisa Green". people.umass.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  5. "List of PhD alumni from the Department of Linguistics at UMass Amherst". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  6. "Google Scholar Lisa J. Green". scholar.google.se. Retrieved 2018-09-02.
  7. Green, Lisa, and Thomas Roeper. “The Acquisition Path for Tense-Aspect: Remote Past and Habitual in Child African American English.” Language Acquisition, vol. 14, no. 3, 2007, pp. 269–313. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20462494.
  8. "Lisa Green | Department of Linguistics | UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  9. "Lisa Green - Faculty Webpage". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  10. "Language and the African American Child - Cambridge Extra". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  11. "African American English - Sociolinguistics - Cambridge University Press". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  12. "The Oxford Handbook of African American English". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  13. "The Acquisition Path for Tense-Aspect". Language Acquisition. 14: 269–313. doi:10.1080/10489220701471024.
  14. "Lisa Green". people.umass.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
  15. Seymour, Harry N.; Bland-Stewart, Linda; Green, Lisa J. (April 1998). "Difference versus deficit in child African American English". Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. 29 (2): 96–108. doi:10.1044/0161-1461.2902.96. PMID 27764431.
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