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

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. In July 2020 she was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor.

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. Green then went on to receive a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1993.

Career and research

After completing her Ph.D., Green spent 11 years at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Linguistics, before going on to take up a position in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. There she founded and directs the Center for the Study of African American Language, a resource for students and educators dedicated to dialect and language-related issues. An enduring goal of Green's is to dispel notions of AAE as a substandard linguistic variety by demonstrating its systematic nature.

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, as well as first language acquisition of AAE by child speakers.

Honors and awards

Green was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2016.

Selected publications

Books

  • Green, Lisa. (2011). Language and the African American Child. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511975561.
  • Green, Lisa. (2002). African American English: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521891387.

Selected papers

  • Green, Lisa, & Walter Sistrunk (2015). Syntax and Semantics. In Oxford Handbook of African American Language. Sonja Lanehart (ed.). Oxford University Press.
  • 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.
  • Green, Lisa (2000). “Aspectual Be-Type Constructions and Coercion in African American English.”Natural Language Semantics, 8, 1-25.
  • 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.

References

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  2. "Lisa Green Awarded Distinction by Board of Trustees". 8 August 2020. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  3. "Lisa Green". people.umass.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  4. "List of PhD alumni from the Department of Linguistics at UMass Amherst". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  5. ^ "Lisa Green | Department of Linguistics | UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  6. "Lisa Green - Faculty Webpage". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  7. "Center for the Study of African American Language". Retrieved February 21, 2024.
  8. "Google Scholar Lisa J. Green". scholar.google.se. Retrieved 2018-09-02.
  9. 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.
  10. "List of LSA Fellows by Year of Induction". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  11. "Language and the African American Child - Cambridge Extra". Archived from the original on October 18, 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  12. "African American English - Sociolinguistics - Cambridge University Press". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  13. The Oxford Handbook of African American English. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press. June 2015. ISBN 978-0-19-979539-0. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  14. "The Acquisition Path for Tense-Aspect". Language Acquisition. 14: 269–313. doi:10.1080/10489220701471024. S2CID 32819172.
  15. "Lisa Green". people.umass.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
  16. 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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