Monica Macaulay
Monica Macaulay | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Main interests | Morphology,Endangered languages,Linguistic typology |
Monica Macaulay(born 1955) is a professor of linguistics at theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison,where she is also affiliated with the American Indian Studies Program.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]During her teenage years, Macaulay attended high school inSantiago, Chile.It was here that she learnedSpanish.After graduating high school and traveling South America she then moved toPrescott, AZ.She relocated shortly after to northern California and pursued art school before enrolling atUC Berkeley.[3]
Macaulay received her PhD in 1987 for her research onmorphologyandcliticization inChalcatongo Mixtecat theUniversity of California, Berkeley.[4][5]
She has worked on documenting variousindigenous languagesof North America, especiallyMenomineeandPotawatomi.She has published a number of linguistic studies on, especially, thesyntaxandsemanticsofMixtec,KarukandAlgonquian.[6]She has also written a grammar ofChalcatongo Mixtec(Macaulay 1996). From 2006 to 2010 she led anNSFgrant which aimed to write three dictionaries for Menominee.[7][8]The grant resulted in works including Macaulay (2009, 2012).
She has written a survival skills manual for graduate students in linguistics (Macaulay 2011).
Macaulay is married to linguistJoe Salmons.[9]
Honors
[edit]In 2020, Macaulay was inducted as aFellowof theLinguistic Society of America.[10]
Macaulay is currently the president of theEndangered Language Fund,[11]as well as the co-editor of the Papers of the Algonquian Conference.
Since 1996, she has been the project director for the Women in Linguistics Mentoring Alliance (WILMA), a project of theLinguistic Society of America.[12]
Key publications
[edit]- Macaulay, Monica, Salmons, J. 2017. Synchrony and diachrony in Menominee derivational morphology.Morphology27, 179–215. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-016-9299-y
- Brugman, Claudia M. & Macaulay, Monica. 2015. Characterizing evidentiality.Linguistic Typology19, no. 2, pp. 201–237. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2015-0007
- (2014) Macaulay, M.Ézhe-bmadzimgek gdebodwéwadmi-zheshmomenan: Potawatomi Dictionary.(Co-compiled with Lindsay Marean, Laura Welcher, and Kimberly Wensaut; self-published with Forest County Potawatomi Community.)
- (2012) Macaulay, M.Menominee Dictionary(Self-published with Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin.)
- (2011) Macaulay, M.Surviving Linguistics: A Guide for Graduate Students(second edition). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. (First edition 2006.) ISBN 978-1-57473-029-6
- (2009) Macaulay, M.A Beginner's Dictionary of Menominee.(Co-compiled with Marianne Milligan; self-published with Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin.)
- (1996) Macaulay, M.A Grammar of Chalcatongo Mixtec.(Grammar with texts and dictionary; 298 pp.) University of California Publications in Linguistics, Vol. 127. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press.ISBN0-520-09807-2
References
[edit]- ^"Macaulay, Monica".Language Sciences.29 June 2018.Retrieved21 May2023.
- ^"Monica Macaulay".Multilingualism and Education in Wisconsin.Retrieved21 May2023.
- ^"Featured Linguist: Monica Macaulay – The LINGUIST List".Archived fromthe originalon 25 April 2015.Retrieved9 March2021.
- ^"Monica Macaulay (CV)".Retrieved22 January2015.
- ^"Publications | Linguistics".lx.berkeley.edu.Retrieved9 March2018.
- ^"Monica Macaulay - Google Scholar Citations".scholar.google.Retrieved9 March2018.
- ^"NSF Award Search: Award # 0553958 - Completion of Three Menominee (MEZ) Dictionaries".nsf.gov.Retrieved21 May2023.
- ^Miller, Jeff."Weight of the Words".On Wisconsin.Retrieved21 May2023.
- ^"Mollie Salmons Obituary (2000) - Durham, NC - The News & Observer".Legacy.Retrieved21 May2023.
- ^"Linguistic Society of America List of Fellows by Year".Retrieved11 March2022.
- ^"Endangered Language Fund: Board of Directors".Archived fromthe originalon 23 January 2015.Retrieved22 January2015.
- ^"History of WILMA".Linguistic Society of America.Retrieved22 January2015.
