Profile

Interests: Complex Predicates, Copulas, Auxiliaries, Mental Lexicon, Austronesian Languages, Languages of Melanesia
Methods: Field work, Corpus linguistics, Experimental linguistics, Statistical Modelling
Cirriculum Vitae:
Danielle G Barth (née Mathieu-Reeves)
Educational Background
      M.A.: Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon, June 2009
      B.A.: Department of Linguistics, Rice University, May 2006
 
Publications
      Mathieu-Reeves, D. (2005). Direct and Indirect Causation in Sinhala: Examining the Complexity Continuum, in R. Englebretson and C. Genetti (eds), Proceedings from the Workshop on Sinhala Linguistics June 3-4, 2005. Santa Barbara Working Papers in Linguistics, 17. Santa Barbara, CA: UCSB, 7 ms pages. http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/research/Mathieu-Reeves_vol17.pdf
       Harrison, K. D., G.D.S. Anderson and D. Barth (2010-2012). Matukar-English online talking dictionary. http://matukar.swarthmore.edu/
 
Conference Presentations
       “Matukar Panau nominalization and erstwhile argument expression” presented at 10th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, November 2012, Albuquerque, New Mexico
      with Greg Anderson “Matukar Online Talking Dictionary” presented at Twelfth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, July 2012, Denpasar, Indonesia
      with Greg Anderson “Directional Constructions in Matukar Panau (Papua New Guinea)” presented at Twelfth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, July 2012, Denpasar, Indonesia
      with Vsevolod Kapatsinski “Evaluating Mixed-Models with LOOCV and Effect Size” presented at Leuven Statistics Days, June 2012, Leuven, Belgium
      “Nominalization types in Matukar Panau (Western Oceanic, Bel)” presented at Workshop on the Languages of Melanesia, March 2012, Kioloa, Australia
      “Modeling reduction of is, am and are in copular, progressive and passive constructions” presented at Exploring the Boundaries and Applications of Corpus Linguistics, April 2011, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
      “Modeling reduction of is, am and are in grammaticalized constructions” presented at the 4th Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics, March 2011, Berlin, Germany
      “Collaborative documentation and revitalization of Panau/Matukar” presented at the 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, February 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii
      “Is is always is? Phonetic effects of grammaticalization” presented at Current Trends in Grammaticalization Research, October 2009, Groningen, Netherlands
      “Development of AVCs in Yimas and Iatmul” presented at the Workshop on Languages of Papua in August 2007, Manokwari, Indonesia
 
Poster Presentation
      “Grammaticalization of AVCs in Yimas” presented as a poster at the 12th Biennial Rice Linguistics Symposium in March 2008, Houston, Texas
 
Service
      Weekly Departmental Linguistics Colloquium Series (Fall 2007-Spring 2008, Fall 2011-2012)
      GLOSS Vice President, graduate linguistics organization (Fall 2008 - Spring 2009)
 
Languages
Proficient
German
French
Tok Pisin (Papua New Guinea creole)
 
Beginner
Indonesian
Spanish
 
Speaking/structural knowledge
Matukar Panau (Papua New Guinea)